Patent ID: 8294624
Filing Date: 2012-10-23
Classification: H01Q

Abstract:
1. A side window glass antenna for an automobile, which is a glass antenna provided in or on an automobile side window glass sheet, and which comprises an H-band antenna conductor for receiving electric waves in a high frequency band, an H-band feeding portion that is connected with the H-band antenna conductor in terms of direct current and provided in the vicinity of an automobile body opening edge on the left or right side of the window glass sheet and an independent conductor, separately from the H-band antenna conductor, that is not connected with the H-band feeding portion in terms of direct current is provided in or on the window glass sheet; wherein the H-band antenna conductor is provided outside the independent conductor and capacitively coupled with at least a part of antenna elements forming an outline of the independent conductor; the independent conductor comprises a first antenna element extending in a vertical direction or substantially in the vertical direction and a plurality of second antenna elements extending in a transverse direction or substantially in a transverse direction; and the first antenna element extends vertically across the plurality of second antenna elements in the vicinity of the center in a left-right direction so as to be connected with each of the second antenna elements, and wherein the plurality of second antenna elements are provided in the vicinity of the upper end or in the vicinity of the lower end of the window glass sheet other than the vicinity of the center in the vertical direction; and wherein no element extending in the transverse direction is present in the vicinity of the center in the vertical direction in the area opposite to the side on which the H-band feeding portion is provided.