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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2000
Filed:
Jan. 22, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
LK-Products OY, Kempele, FI;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
343790 ; 343895 ; 343792 ; 343725 ;
Abstract
An antenna construction comprises a feed conductor (11, 21) and an antenna element (12, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27) which has a first end and a second end. The feed conductor is substantially electrically unshielded and coupled to the antenna element at a tapping point (13, 23) located between the first end and second end of the antenna element the tapping point dividing the antenna element into two portions having unequal electrical lengths. The antenna element may be a helix (12), a whip (22) or another known two-ended antenna element or a combination of those.