Joseph Z Mathis

US Patent:

46461019, Feb 24, 1987

Filed:

Dec 19, 1985

Appl. No.:

6/811063

Inventors:

Joseph D. Mathis - Naperville IL

Assignee:

AT&T Information Systems - Holmdel NJ

International Classification:

H01Q 112

US Classification:

343878

Abstract:

An antenna support is provided by a molded plastic member comprising a block having a vertical passage therein, a horizontal guideway on the top of the block, and detent instrumentalities associated with such guideway. The support is designed for use with a 40 MHz wire rod antenna shaped by multiple "L" bends therein to have a middle section comprising two horizontal arms normal to each other and, at its extremities, two vertical arms normal to the middle section. The support is assembled with the antenna by passing one of the antenna's vertical arms through the vertical passage in the block, and by seating the horizontal antenna arm adjacent that vertical arm into the support guideway so that such horizontal arm is snap-fittably held in that guideway by such detent instrumentalities. Thereafter, the unit consisting of the antenna and its support is assembled with a printed wiring board so that the support maintains the antenna in a predetermined desired positioning thereof relative to the board.