With Ice Clearer Or Preventer Patents (Class 343/704)
  • Patent number: 4095228
    Abstract: An automotive vehicle has a window and a vehicle body. A window heater includes an arrangement of heating conductor sections provided on the window. A radio receiving antenna is located in the vicinity of the heating conductor sections. The heating conductor sections are comprised of at least two heating conductor sections together forming a bifilar conductor section group. The two heating conductor sections of each bifilar conductor section group are arranged approximately parallel and closely spaced to each other. The heating conductor sections are so interconnected that the heating current flowing through one of the sections of each group also flows through the other section of the group but in the opposite direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 13, 1978
    Assignee: Hans Kolbe & Co.
    Inventors: Hans Heinrich Meinke, Heinz Lindenmeier, Friedrich Landstorfer, Gerhard Flachenecker, Jochen Hopf
  • Patent number: 4086594
    Abstract: A device which can be interposed between a radio and an electrically heated window so as to enable the to a d.c. power source to effect heating of same. The device comprises a blocking circuit having mutually coupled coils interposed between the d.c. power source and the terminals of the heating element of the window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 25, 1978
    Assignee: B.S.H. Electronics (Manchester) Limited
    Inventors: Barbara Ewa Kropielnicki, Jerzy Jacek Kropielnicki
  • Patent number: 4070677
    Abstract: A vehicle window heater includes an arrangement of heating conductors provided on the window. A radio receiving antenna is located in the vicinity of the heating conductors. An interference-suppressing arrangement decreases the effect upon the antenna of interference fields emanating from the heating conductors and includes an arrangement of auxiliary conductors located in the vicinity of the heating conductors. The auxiliary conductors along their lengths are insulated from the heating conductors. Each auxiliary conductor at at least one of its ends is conductively connected to the vehicle body for high-frequency condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1976
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1978
    Assignee: Hans Kolbe & Co.
    Inventors: Hans Heinrich Meinke, Heinz Lindenmeier, Friedrich Landstorfer, Gerhard Flachenecker
  • Patent number: 4063247
    Abstract: A glass sheet with broad band receiver antennae and an area to be heated, comprising a glass sheet, a first means provided in the heating area of the glass sheet and capable of functioning both as a heating conductor wire and as a first receiver antennae for receiving waves in predetermined frequency band, an electric source connected to the first means for supplying a heating current to the first means, and a second means provided in an area of the glass sheet other than the heating area and capable of functioning as second receiver antennae for receiving waves in a frequency band different from the frequency band for the first receiver antennae. This glass sheet further includes a stub one end of which is connected to the first means and the other of which to the second means, and a feeder connected to the second means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 13, 1977
    Assignees: Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kaoru Sakurai, Harunori Murakami, Mitsuhiro Nakamura, Toshinobu Kuroyama
  • Patent number: 4031537
    Abstract: This invention comprises an antenna array of collinear, end-fed dipoles spaced substantially less than one-quarter wavelength from the reflector. Consecutive dipoles are energized through phasing loops with the end dipole energized by a coaxial feeder or by one of the two output ports of a balun. A radome with a helically wound resistance heating wire is used to protect the array from the elements. Means comprising the addition of small auxiliary radiators at one of the ends of each dipoles are provided to reduce radiation polarized perpendicular to the axis of the array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1974
    Date of Patent: June 21, 1977
    Inventor: Andrew Alford
  • Patent number: 4003056
    Abstract: An antenna system responsive to both the E and H fields in a radiated electromagnetic signal relies upon the placement within the influence of a conductive edge formed by an opening in a closed conductive body of an element having an effective electrical length which approximates a resonant length in free space in the intended range of operating frequencies for the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1975
    Date of Patent: January 11, 1977
    Inventor: Ross Alan Davis
  • Patent number: 3971029
    Abstract: A radio antenna device having an antenna wire and a gain increasing antenna secured to the rear window of motor vehicle in the same manner as is used for a moisture preventive heat wire. An antenna wire is secured to the rear window of a motor vehicle in an attempt to reduce such disturbance in receiving a radio wave, which accrues from an engine, electric generator and electric motor mounted on a motor vehicle or for the purpose of eliminating a space for mounting an antenna, while a gain increasing antenna is provided for compensating for the reduction in radio-wave receiving level, which is caused by shielding action of a moisture preventive heat wire which is secured to the rear window or a portion of a vehicle body, which extends along the periphery of the rear window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1974
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1976
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Taketsugu Torii, Minoru Nishio
  • Patent number: 3964068
    Abstract: A radio antenna device having a gain compensating circuit and an antenna wire rigidly secured to the rear window of a motor vehicle, coupled with a moisture preventive heat wire. The antenna wire is secured to the rear window of the motor vehicle so as to reduce the noise in the received radio waves, which results from electrical noise from the vehicle engine, electric generator and electric motor. The rear window also serves as a convenient antenna space. A gain compensating circuit is provided for compensating for the reduction in the level of the received radio wave, which reduction is caused by the shielding action of the moisture preventive heat wire secured to the rear window and the portion of the body of the vehicle, which extends along the periphery of a rear window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 1975
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1976
    Inventors: Taketsugu Torii, Minoru Nishio