US Patent Issued to YOKOWO on June 9 for "Antenna device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,830, issued on June 9, was assigned to YOKOWO Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Antenna device" was invented by Noritaka Terashita (Tomioka, Japan), Motohisa Ono (Tomioka, Japan) and Yuki Kato (Tomioka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna device to be mounted to a vehicle roof, includes: a case unit having an accommodating space formed therein and having a radio wave permeability; and an antenna unit to be accommodated in the accommodating space, wherein the antenna unit has: a pair of capacitance loading elements facing across a plane, as a center, perpendicular to the vehicle roof at a predetermined interval and at a predetermined angl...