Patent ID: 8692727

Claim:
A glass antenna for a vehicle, the antenna being provided to a non-opening fixed window glass of a side portion of the vehicle and being configured to receive a broadcast wave for digital terrestrial television, the antenna comprising: hot-side and earth-side feeding points provided to satisfy a substantially up-down positional relation thereof near an intermediate portion of an inside vertical or vertically-oblique edge of a flange of the window glass; a hot-side element including at least one first horizontal line extending from the hot-side feeding point in a horizontal direction away from the vertical or vertically-oblique edge of the flange, and at least one first vertical line extending from the hot-side feeding point in a direction away from the earth-side feeding point and along the vertical or vertically-oblique edge of the flange; and an earth-side element including at least one second horizontal line extending from the earth-side feeding point in the horizontal direction away from the vertical or vertically-oblique edge of the flange, and a third horizontal line extending from a tip portion of at least one second vertical line in the horizontal direction away from the vertical or vertically-oblique edge of the flange, the at least one second vertical line extending from the earth-side feeding point in a direction away from the hot-side feeding point and along the flange, wherein the antenna is of ungrounded type in which the hot-side and earth-side feeding points are connected respectively to a core conductor and an enveloping conductor of a coaxial cable.