4011results 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 (utx(t)) into a feed connection of the waveguide; c) receiving the electric response signal (urx(t)) emitted by the antenna resulting from the excitation signal (utx(t)); d) determining at least one characteristic of the antenna from a portion of the response signal (urx(t)) and a corresponding portion of the excitation signal (utx(t)), where the portion of the response signal (urx(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 (utx(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.

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.

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.

A compact sensor system integrates electric and / or magnetic field sensors to accurately measure, with a high level of sensitivity, one or more electric and magnetic vector components of fields. The electric and magnetic field data can be utilized separately or combined. The sensor system is self-contained so as to include a built-in power source, as well as data storage and / or transmission capability. The integrated sensor system also preferably includes a global positioning system (GPS) to provide timing and position information, a sensor unit which can determine the orientation and tilt of the sensor system, and self-calibrating structure which produces local electric and / or magnetic fields used to calibrate the sensor system following deployment.

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.

A compact sensor system integrates electric and / or magnetic field sensors to accurately measure, with a high level of sensitivity, one or more electric and magnetic vector components of fields. The electric and magnetic field data can be utilized separately or combined. The sensor system is self-contained so as to include a built-in power source, as well as data storage and / or transmission capability. The integrated sensor system also preferably includes a global positioning system (GPS) to provide timing and position information, a sensor unit which can determine the orientation and tilt of the sensor system, and self-calibrating structure which produces local electric and / or magnetic fields used to calibrate the sensor system following deployment.

An integrated infrared and millimeter-wave monolithic focal plane sensor array having a substrate upon which an integrated array of infrared sensors and mm-wave sensors are provided at a first planar level on the same side of the substrate, and a planar antenna for receiving incident millimeter-wave radiation located at a second planar level located between the integrated array of sensors and the surface of the substrates for coupling the mm-wave radiation field to the mm-wave sensor. The antenna receiver of electromagnetic radiation, in one embodiment, is an antenna having a crossed bowtie configuration which efficiently couples the radiation field to the mm-wave sensor. The invention also is directed to a method of fabricating such a radiation sensor.

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.

Counterfeit electronic devices are detected by comparing a thermal profile of the counterfeit device and an authentic device under predetermined operating conditions. A thermal profile for an authentic electronic device is recorded executing an instruction set over time, such as with static infrared images at predetermined times, video infrared images over a predetermined time period or temperature measurements made at predetermined locations of the electronic device. In one embodiment, a thermal profile indicates that a processor device has been used in the place of a field programmable grid array device. In an alternative embodiment, an electromagnetic profile is detected instead of or in addition to the thermal profile. The electromagnetic profile of an authentic device is used to create an expected profile for comparison with an electromagnetic profile of electronic devices under test.

The invention is a detection system and in one embodiment uses inexpensive, miniaturized sensors for detecting electric field (E-field) disturbances. Such sensors are easily and covertly deployable and have low power consumption. The devices may incorporate visual or audio alerts and can include communications hardware for transmitting data for further processing of the electrostatic events.

FIG. 1 shows airframe 10 with electromagnetic field sensor 12, adjustable reference electromagnetic field strength 14, comparator 16, parachute 18, parachute trigger 19, and inspection camera 20 inspecting a transmission line corridor containing towers 40, 42, and 44, phase conductors 46, 48, and 50, and shield wires 52 and 54. Reference electromagnetic field strength 14 is adjusted before the flight to set the minimum electromagnetic field strength before parachute trigger 19 deploys parachute 18. The reference electromagnetic field strength 14 corresponds to a radius, and thus virtual tunnel 22, outside of which airframe 10 cannot fly without deploying parachute 18, regardless of the state of the autopilot, GPS signal, or radio link.

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.

A method of determining far-field performance of an RFID device, such as in or on a tag, label, package, film, carton, wrap, or a portion of any of these, includes performing near-field testing or measurement of the RFID device, and determining or predicting far-field performance based on the results of the near-field testing or measurement. The determining or predicting of far-field performance may involve calculating a measure of far-field performance based on near-field results or measurements. The predicted far-field performance may include any of a variety of performance factors, including range, sensitivity, frequency performance, read sensitivity, write sensitivity, peak operating frequency, and / or average sensitivity over a given frequency band. Using near-field testing results to predict far-field performance may allow use of compact testing facilities, in situ testing of RFID devices, and / or faster and / or less costly testing of RFID devices.

A sensor system accurately measures, with a high level of sensitivity, one or more vector components of a small electric field, through the use of multiple, relatively fixed sensors, at least one of which constitutes a weakly coupled capacitive sensor. The sensor system enables the electric field to be determined in a direction normal to a surface or along multiple orthogonal axes. Measurement of the electric field vector can provide improved resolution and characterization of electrical signals produced, for example, by organs within the human body.

A near field probe for testing installed components of an electromagnetic radiating system on a missile. The probe design comprises a diode antenna with a balun. The probe utilizes a dual diode arrangement which provides approximately twice the output voltage as the previous probe. The probe may then be placed further away from the radiating system under test.

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.

The invention discloses an electromagnetic field near-field imaging system and method based on pulsed light detection magnetic resonance. The system consists of a laser pump optical path, a microwave source, a diamond NV color-center probe, a CCD camera unit, a synchronization system, a displacement scanning platform, control software and a data analysis imaging system. In the system, a large diamond single crystal containing the NV color-center is used as a detection unit, a static magnetic field is used to split a magnetic resonance peak of the diamond NV color-center into eight peaks, the eight resonance peaks correspond to four crystal axis directions <111>, <1-11>, <-111>, <11-1> of a diamond lattice structure, by measuring the Rabi frequency of each resonance peak, the strength of a circularly polarized microwave field perpendicular to the corresponding crystal axis direction is obtained, and through comprehensive calculation of the microwave field strengths in the four directions, the strength and direction of a microwave vector are then reconstructed. Through the microwave near-field high-resolution imaging of a local region of a microwave chip under measurement, the quantitative data can be provided for the failure analysis of the chip.

Methods for detecting and classifying loads on alternating current (AC) lines are provided. One such method includes the steps of placing an AC field sensor in AC electric and magnetic fields generated by an AC line, generating an electric field signal representative of the AC electric field received by the AC field sensor, generating a magnetic field signal representative of the AC magnetic field received by the AC field sensor, generating a relative phase signal representative of relative phase changes between the electric and magnetic fields, and processing the relative phase signal to detect and classify loads on the AC line. In another method, relative load vector signals representative of relative magnitude and phase changes in the magnetic field are generated and processed to detect and classify loads on the AC line.

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.

An apparatus and method for detecting a foreign object in a wireless power transmitting system are provided. In a case in which a foreign object is not detected prior to charging, an attempt to detect a foreign object detection during charging is performed, and when a foreign object is not detected while a power signal is being received, power is limited based on a temperature sensor.

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.