Patent ID: 8441401

Claim:
An apparatus for mounting an antenna assembly having a chassis to a mounting surface having an external side, an interior side, and a mounting hole therebetween, the apparatus comprising: one or more contact parts including one or more elastically deformable legs having one or more extensions and one or more feet; a clamping piece; a fastener engageable to the antenna assembly, for retaining the clamping piece and the one or more contact parts to the antenna assembly prior to mounting the antenna assembly to the mounting surface such that the antenna assembly, clamping piece, and one or more contact parts are positionable collectively as a single unit relative to the mounting hole; the apparatus configured such that driving the fastener moves the clamping piece towards the mounting surface and into the one or more contact parts which elastically deforms the one or more legs thereby compressively contacting the one or more feet with the interior side of the mounting surface, whereupon: a clamping force is applied to the mounting surface between the one or more feet along the interior side of the mounting surface and the chassis along the external side of the mounting surface; and the one or more feet and the one or more extensions are electrically coupled with the interior side of the mounting surface and an electrically-conductive portion of the antenna assembly, respectively; wherein the one or more extensions are configured to extend from the one or more legs on the interior side of the mounting surface through the mounting hole to the external side of the mounting surface to galvanically contact an electrically-conductive portion of the antenna assembly along the external side of the mounting surface.