Patent ID: 8665170

Claim:
An antenna assembly comprising: a cable assembly having at least one wire; a circuit board assembly having a ground plane as a layer of the circuit board assembly and a plurality of mounting locations with feed vias and ground vias, the ground vias being electrically connected to the ground plane, the circuit board assembly having feed pads, the at least one wire being terminated to corresponding feed pads, the feed pads being electrically connected to corresponding feed vias by conductive traces of the circuit board assembly to electrically connect the at least one wire to corresponding mounting locations; and a plurality of L-shaped antenna elements separately provided from each other and from the circuit board, the antenna elements being mounted to the circuit board at corresponding mounting locations, each antenna element having a feed finger and a ground finger, the ground finger being received in the corresponding ground via and being electrically connected to the ground plane, the feed finger being received in the corresponding feed via and being electrically connected to the corresponding wire by the conductive trace of the circuit board assembly, each L-shaped antenna element having a first portion extending from the circuit board along a first plane and a second portion extending from the first portion along a second plane that is transverse to the first plane, the first and second portions meeting at edges thereof, each antenna element providing hemispherical coverage.