US 12,374,785 B2
Antenna mount assembly
Sumit Bongir, Pune (IN); Yassine Borkadi, Ann Arbor, MI (US); and Alan Miller, Auburn Hills, MI (US)
Assigned to Hirschmann Car Communication Inc., Wilmington, DE (US)
Filed by Hirschmann Car Communication Inc., Wilmington, DE (US)
Filed on Aug. 25, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/895,611.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/280,687, filed on Nov. 18, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 202141042143 (IN), filed on Sep. 17, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0093217 A1, Mar. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. H01Q 1/32 (2006.01); B60R 11/00 (2006.01); B60R 16/03 (2006.01); H01Q 1/12 (2006.01)
CPC H01Q 1/3275 (2013.01) [B60R 11/00 (2013.01); B60R 16/03 (2013.01); H01Q 1/1214 (2013.01); H01Q 1/3233 (2013.01); B60R 2011/004 (2013.01); B60R 2011/0052 (2013.01)] 33 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An antenna mount assembly comprising:
a baseplate having an upper surface and a lower surface, the lower surface configured to be coupled to an exterior surface of a rooftop of a vehicle, the baseplate having a bolt hub, the bolt hub having a sliding ramp angled non-parallel to the baseplate;
a lock assembly located below the lower surface of the baseplate and configured to face an interior surface of the rooftop of the vehicle, the lock assembly including a base and mounting legs extending from the base, the mounting legs configured to be coupled to the interior surface of the rooftop of the vehicle, the lock assembly including at least one cable opening configured to hold at least one antenna cable, the lock assembly having a slider post engaging the sliding ramp to locate the lock assembly relative to the baseplate; and
a bolt coupled to the baseplate and tightened to move the lock assembly toward the baseplate, the slider post sliding along the sliding ramp as the lock assembly is moved toward the baseplate to rotate the lock assembly to a locked position, the mounting legs engaging the rooftop in the locked position.