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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:
Sep. 18, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2009
Applicants:
Hidehito Oki, Dublin, OH (US);
Masashi Noda, Tomioka, JP;
Seiji Go, Tomioka, JP;
Inventors:
Assignees:
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Yokowo Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q 1/32 (2006.01); H01Q 7/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A vehicle antenna assembly includes an element coil, a holder, and a retainer. The element coil can have a polygonal configuration in a cross-section taken normal to a coil access. The holder can include rails. The retainer can engage the rails and apply a compressive load on the element coil to fix the element coil with respect to the holder. A method for holding an antenna element is also disclosed.