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Patent No.:

US 8422976 B1

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Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2013

Filed:

Jul. 10, 2008
Applicants:

Heinz Lindenmeier, Planegg, DE;

Stefan Lindenmeier, Guating-Buchendorf, DE;

Jochen Hopf, Haar, DE;

Leopold Reiter, Gilching, DE;

Inventors:

Heinz Lindenmeier, Planegg, DE;

Stefan Lindenmeier, Guating-Buchendorf, DE;

Jochen Hopf, Haar, DE;

Leopold Reiter, Gilching, DE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

There is disclosed an antenna diversity system for relatively broadband broadcast reception in vehicles such as motor vehicles. The device can include a diversity processor having numerous components including a microprocessor for controlling a signal selection switch. In alternative embodiments the processor can be incorporated into a receiver or into a multi-antenna system. One advantage of these designs is that it is able to exist with one reception tuner and being able to select one signal from a plurality of antenna signals A, A, . . . AN, with great probability, whose signal components lie above the level necessary for interference-free reception, over the entire channel bandwidth B.


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