3988results about "Electromagentic field characteristics" patented technology

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for detecting magnetic fields in implantable medical devices. The apparatus includes a sensor adapted to provide at least one signal proportional to at least one vector component of a magnetic field. The apparatus further includes a circuit adapted to receive the signal and perform a predetermined action when a predetermined quantity exceeds a predetermined threshold value.

An antenna module and a portable communication terminal equipped with the antenna module are provided. The antenna module has a space-saving design, and also has both a capability for long communication distance for a tag function and a capability for wide communication range for a reader/writer function.

A first antenna coil (11) for communication with a reader/writer and a second antenna coil (12) for communication with an IC tag are disposed on a base substrate (10). The first antenna coil (11) is disposed in an outermost periphery section of the base substrate (10) so that a communication distance is attained. The second antenna coil (12) is disposed within an inner periphery of the first antenna coil (11) so as to achieve overall size reduction of the module.

A method for determining at least one characteristic of an antenna requiring: a) positioning an antenna in a space surrounded by a waveguide; b) feeding an electric excitation signal (u_tx(t)) into a feed connection of the waveguide; c) receiving the electric response signal (u_rx(t)) emitted by the antenna resulting from the excitation signal (u_tx(t)); d) determining at least one characteristic of the antenna from a portion of the response signal (u_rx(t)) and a corresponding portion of the excitation signal (u_tx(t)), where the portion of the response signal (u_rx(t)) is evaluated in the time domain and satisfies the following conditions: (i) only one or more waves of the electromagnetic field caused by the excitation signal (u_tx(t)) and running from the feed connection towards the antenna exist at the location of the antenna; and (ii) the electromagnetic field at the location of the antenna is a TEM field.

A pump for infusing fluid, the pump including a pumping mechanism, a fluid delivery device, a plurality of electric field sensors, and a measurement component. The plurality of electric field sensors is configured to estimate either an electric field that is associated with a patient, or an electric field that is associated with a fluid path of the pump, or both. The measurement component is configured to receive the electric field estimates from each of the electric field sensors and further configured to measure the difference between the electric field estimates.

The invention relates to: A chamber (101, 201, 301, 401) for processing electronic devices (414), the use of such a chamber and a method. The object of the present invention is to provide a flexible system for and method of decreasing the processing time per unit of electronic devices during production and test, thus reducing costs. The problem is solved in that the chamber (101, 201, 301, 401) is adapted for handling several devices (414) simultaneously and said processing comprises a transfer of airborne signals (429, 430, 431). This has the advantage of allowing a simultaneous test under controlled and homogeneous conditions. The invention may be used in the production and test of electronic devices such as mobile communications devices.

A lightning detection system for detecting and locating an initial discharge of an initial leader stroke of a lightning flash. An initial lightning discharge produces a pulse that can be used to accurately detect lightning, and more particularly, the location of the initial lightning discharge. In one embodiment, at least three sensors detect and determine the location of the first pulses from initial lightning discharges using time difference of arrival information of the pulses at each of the three sensors. In another embodiment, a single sensor is used to determine the range of an initial lightning discharge from the amplitude of a corresponding initial detected pulse, and to determine the direction from a crossed loop antenna An alternative embodiment of a single sensor system determines a distance of a lightning event from a peak amplitude value derived from a pulse amplitude distribution. In a further embodiment, a lightning detection system provides enhanced lightning location by incorporating weather data from a weather radar with detected lightning information.

this invention relates to power in direct-current circuits. The invention takes gallium arsenide as foundation (1). On the foundation has power divider, power synthesizer, 90deg phaser, solid beam structure. Power divider and power synthesizer composed by port one (7), port two(8), port three(8), dissymmetry coplane band line(10), nitride tantalum electric resistance. Solid beam structure includes signal input port(16), pier(5), solid beam(13), pedestal structure(6), sensing electrode(4), sensing electrode leader(12), capacitance detecting port(15), air bridge(14). There are nitriding silicon medium layer on the transmission line, pedestal structure and sensing electrode under solid beam, and sensing electrode leader under Air Bridge.

The present invention provides a batch testing system and method that applies a single shielded anechoic chamber to simultaneously test multiple wireless communication devices. The shielded anechoic chamber can avoid external electromagnetic interference, reduce strength of reflected signals significantly and provide stable channel environment, thereby testing signal transceiving of the wireless communication devices more precisely. The present invention also provides a design for the batch container and loading mechanism within the chamber.

The invention discloses an apparatus for detecting the electromagnetic sensitivity of an automobile. For a heavy current injection detection, the invention comprises a power supply, an artificial power supply network, a current injection probe, a current monitor probe, a control unit, an interface card, a signal generator, a power amplifier, a first power unit and other units; for a freefield detection, the invention comprises the power supply, the artificial power supply network, a radio frequency emission antenna, a field intensity probe, the control unit, the interface card, the signal generator, the power amplifier, a field intensity monitor and other units. The invention can be adopted to achieve the heavy current injection automatic detection and the freefield automatic detection for automobile electronic products with high detection efficiency, can effectively reduce the labor intensity of detecting staffs, and reduce the possibility of detection errors.

This invention is characterized to include a discrete analysis frequency width change specifying process for specifying in a particular frequency range a change in the discrete high-speed Fourier transform (FFT) analysis frequency width and a modeling process for allocating different discrete FFT analysis frequency widths to the specified frequency range and to a frequency range other than the specified frequency range and performing modeling. The EMI analysis method of this invention reflects on the gate level power supply current calculation the influence of decoupling by resistance, capacitance and inductance of the power supply and ground, thereby making it possible to evaluate the EMI of LSIs in simulation in a realistic time and to provide efficient EMI countermeasures through supporting the identifying of the EMI causing locations.

An improved mobile telephone (1) is made. It is improved in the sense that it assesses the SAR, namely the power thermally absorbed by a material representing biological tissues placed against the telephone in conditions of use, and it parametrize its operation according to this rate. Thus, a solution is proposed guaranteeing the user a use of the telephone that is without risk for his health.

A method and apparatus for calculating the radiated sensitivity of a mobile terminal positioned in multiple test orientations for multiple combinations of frequency channel and mobile terminal configuration is described herein. Test equipment measures a reference sensitivity of the mobile terminal when the mobile terminal is positioned in a reference orientation. Further, the test equipment estimates an antenna gain associated with a mobile terminal antenna when the mobile terminal is positioned in a test orientation. The test equipment then adjusts the reference sensitivity, based on the estimated antenna gain, to calculate the sensitivity of the mobile terminal positioned in the test orientation.

The invention relates to a method for predicting electromagnetic wave propagation based on a ray tracking method, which comprises the steps of ray path searching, reflected and diffracted ray calculation, field intensity receiving, and path loss calculation. The conception of the method comprises the following steps: firstly, determining the position of an emission source, and finding out all propagation paths from the emission source to the ray of each test point according to building characteristics and distribution on a 3D map; secondly, determining reflection and diffraction losses and the like according to a Fresnel equation, a geometrical diffraction theory/uniform diffraction theory and the like so as to correspondingly obtain the field intensity from each path to each test point; and finally, performing coherence stack on the field intensities of all the arrived paths at the same test point to obtain the total received field intensity at each test point. The method has the advantage of better adaptability compared with the conventional statistical model. The method can be applied to predicting the electric wave propagation in a wireless communication system and adapts to the requirements on wireless network programming and designing.

Systems, methods, and apparatus for detecting UAVs in an RF environment are disclosed. An apparatus is constructed and configured for network communication with at least one camera. The at least one camera captures images of the RF environment and transmits video data to the apparatus. The apparatus receives RF data and generates FFT data based on the RF data, identifies at least one signal based on a first derivative and a second derivative of the FFT data, measures a direction from which the at least one signal is transmitted, analyzes the video data. The apparatus then identifies at least one UAV to which the at least one signal is related based on the analyzed video data, the RF data, and the direction from which the at least one signal is transmitted, and controls the at least one camera based on the analyzed video data.

A quadrifilar antenna having helical windings is fed by a phase shift feed network, each winding having an open circuit termination element, the phase shift feeding network having forward directional phase shift paths from a feed input to phase shift feed output ports, and having a first reverse directional transmission path from one or more of the phase shift feed output ports back to a first isolation port, and a second reverse directional transmission path from another one or more of the phase shift feed output ports back to a second isolation port, the first and second isolation ports isolated from the forward directional phase shift paths, and a differential termination impedance, floating from ground, connected the first and second isolation ports. Optionally, the differential termination impedance is frequency selective.