Patents by Inventor Reinhard Berfelde

Reinhard Berfelde has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6201504
    Abstract: A vehicle body has a plurality of flat and rod-shaped synthetic plastic elements, and a plurality of antennas connected with the synthetic plastic elements for reception and transmission of various frequencies, the synthetic plastic elements at least partially being provided with surfaces and tracks of a differently thick metal coating, the metal coating being structured so that a selection of the antennas for identical or different frequencies and ground reference surfaces as well as regions with screening action are provided, and depending on an operational frequency and a required radiation diagram, radiations with various operational principals being produced, and the surfaces which act for one frequency as radiators for other frequencies belonging to a ground potential, the antennas and ground reference surfaces produced by a structuring as well the regions with screening action being distributed over synthetic plastic elements, the synthetic plastic elements for a predetermined antenna principle being m
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2001
    Assignee: FUBA Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Mehran Aminzadeh, Ulrich Dieter Becker, Reinhard Berfelde, Manfred Burkert, Michael Daginnus, Andreas Schwarte, Wilhelm Probst
  • Patent number: 5706015
    Abstract: The flat-topped antenna apparatus includes a GPS antenna, a mobile radio antenna, a common housing for the antennas mounted over a ground plane and coaxial cables (12,13,13a) acting as electrical supply lines for the antennas. The mobile radio antenna includes a metal sheet (6,6',6a) plane parallel to the ground plane and spaced at a distance (A,A') of 0.04 of an average operating wavelength of a mobile radio frequency band from the ground plane. The metal sheet is electrically connected at an input terminal (11) with an inner conductor (10) of one coaxial cable (13,13a) and also with the ground plane via a short circuit element (7,7a). The GPS antenna is above and rests on the mobile radio antenna and includes a dielectric plate (1,1a) provided with a metal layer (3) connected at an input terminal (4) with an inner conductor (10) of another (12) of the coaxial cables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1998
    Assignee: Fuba Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Shun-Ping Chen, Manfred Burkert, Reinhard Berfelde, Christian Heuer