US 11,870,140 B2
Antenna-equipped light bar
Todd Mansfield, Boise, ID (US); Kyle Christopher Stuesse, O'Fallon, MO (US); and Nicholaus M. Thompson, Kuna, ID (US)
Assigned to Code 3, Inc., St. Louis, MO (US)
Appl. No. 17/595,187
Filed by Code 3, Inc., St. Louis, MO (US)
PCT Filed May 13, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/032735
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 10, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/232163, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 19, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/847,230, filed on May 13, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0200138 A1, Jun. 23, 2022
Int. Cl. H01Q 1/32 (2006.01); F21S 45/10 (2018.01); B60Q 1/00 (2006.01); B60Q 1/26 (2006.01); H01Q 1/52 (2006.01)
CPC H01Q 1/3275 (2013.01) [B60Q 1/0017 (2013.01); B60Q 1/2611 (2013.01); F21S 45/10 (2018.01); H01Q 1/526 (2013.01)] 29 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An antenna-equipped light bar, comprising:
a light bar housing in which are mounted lighting devices communicatively coupled to electrical circuitry;
a cover for the light bar housing, the cover including a domed region and a major surface region, the domed region defining an interior cavity for which at least a portion of the interior cavity is located above a plane defined by the major surface region;
a shielding panel located in the light bar housing and electrically isolated from the electrical circuitry coupled to the lighting devices, the shielding panel positioned in the light bar housing to provide shielding of electromagnetic interference (EMI) associated with the electrical circuitry coupled to the lighting devices, in which the shielding panel is integrated into the cover; and
an antenna mounted atop the shielding panel so as to be at least partly shielded from the EMI.