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As needs, specific embodiment of the present invention is here disclosed; , it should be understood that the disclosed embodiments are demonstration of the present invention, it can specifically be implemented with various forms.Therefore, disclosed here ad hoc structure and function detail should not be understood that restriction, and just as basis of claim and as be used for instructing those skilled in the art to use a representative basis of the present invention in any suitably detailed structure of reality diversifiedly.In addition, noun and the phrase that here uses do not mean restriction; Provide a understandable explanation of the present invention and would rather say so.
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Fig. 1 is the sectional views according to the radio frequency noise reduction test cabinet 100 of an embodiment.Noise reduction test cabinet 100 is defined by a metal package layer 102.Metal package floor 102 is used for stoping the radio frequency or other electromagnetic wave that send from test cabinet 100 outsides to enter test cabinet 100 and worsen the measured value of catching the chamber 100.In embodiment as shown in Figure 1, noise reduction test cabinet 100 is square frame shapes, and metal package layer 102 comprises ceiling 104, floor 106 and four walls 108 (wherein two in Fig. 1 local as seen).Alternately, noise reduction test cabinet 100 can have another shape, such as other prismatic (for example, five jiaos, hexagonal prismoid shape), cylinder or semisphere.
It in metal surface 102 an inner involucrum 110 of making by scale board or other material.The second metal surface (not shown) is included in the inner involucrum 110 as selecting.In embodiment as shown in Figure 1, inner involucrum 110 comprises floor 112, ceiling (invisible among Fig. 1), left wall 114, right wall 116, rear wall (invisible among Fig. 1) and antetheca (invisible among Fig. 1).
Inner involucrum 110 is arranged with the radio frequency absorption material.In embodiment as shown in Figure 1, the radio frequency absorption material adopts the form of cone radio frequency absorption body 107, and it is tiled on the inside surface of inner involucrum 110.Cone radio frequency absorption body 107 is used for reducing reflection and the standing wave in the chamber 100.
Test board 118 is positioned at the centre on the floor 112 of inner involucrum 110.Below with reference to Fig. 2-8 test board 118 is described more fully.As shown in Figure 1, test board 118 supports EUT 122 (for example, cell phone) and " phantom head " 120.Phantom 120 is empty models of the number of people, and it is filled with a kind of liquid that is designed to be similar to the electrical specification of the actual number of people.Cell phone is operated when being held near user's head usually.Therefore, phantom 120 is used to the influence of the radio-frequency field that phantom bead generates cell phone.As shown in the figure, cell phone EUT122 is installed on the phantom 120.Rubber band, strap, bonding agent or special fixing frame are suitable for cell phone EUT 122 is attached on the phantom 120.Phantom 120 heavily about 10 kilograms.Spendable alternatively phantom trunk weighs 30 kilograms.Test board 118 must be enough firm supporting this weight, and enough hard so that keep the position of phantom head and EUT at continuous test period.There is a kind of requirement of competition mutually, promptly in test board 118, uses the least possible material, so that reduce the interference of the radio-frequency field of test board 118.
A U-shaped swing arm 124 is placed in the chamber 100.Swing arm 124 comprises horizontal gird 126, and it vertically is connected to first radial arm 128 and second radial arm (invisible among Fig. 1) at opposite end.The first arc slit 130 in the left wall 114 of horizontal gird 126 inleakage involucrums 110, and the second identical shaped arc slit 132 in the right wall 116 of inner involucrum 110.First radial arm 128 is disposed between the wall 108 of the right wall 116 of inner involucrum 110 and extexine 102.Similarly, second radial arm (it is parallel to first radial arm, but invisible in Fig. 1) is disposed between the left wall 114 and extexine 102 of inner involucrum 110.The not end of two radial arms 128 extends to virtual pivot 134 away from horizontal gird 126, and swing arm 124 is around virtual pivot 134 rotations.Virtual pivot 134 intersects with the axle 135 that runs through test board 118.At virtual pivot 134 places, first radial arm 128 is connected to first shaft 136, and the second radial arm (not shown) is coupled to the second shaft (not shown).First shaft 136 extends through extexine 102 and is supported by bearing 138.The second shaft (not shown) is suitably supported similarly.First shaft 136 is coupled to step motor 140, thereby step motor 140 is used for rotary oscillation arm 124 and the controlling level crossbeam 126 polarity angle with respect to EUT 122.
Horizontal gird 126 supports a measurement antenna 142 that is generally used for receiving from the signal among the EUT 122.Measuring antenna 142 can swing in about a polarity angular range that is installed in the EUT 122 on the test board 118.Attention: the polarity angular range that swing arm 124 can rotate is in the limited laterally restriction of (degree of depth) size of high polarity angle place tested person platform 118., below will with reference to figure 2-8 in greater detail the design of test board 118 allow swing arm 124 to rotate to the high polarity angle, thereby allow the sizable part about the solid angle of EUT is carried out radio-frequency measurement.
Though not shown among Fig. 1, test board 118 suitably is supported on the wheelwork 504 (Fig. 5) on the floor 112 that is positioned at inner involucrum 110, so so that support the position angle of the test board 118 of EUT 122 to change with respect to measuring antenna 142.Therefore, the radiofrequency signal of sending on polarity and position angle angular range can be measured in chamber 100.
Radio frequency uses instrument 144 to be positioned at outside the chamber 100.Radio frequency uses instrument 144 suitably to comprise spectrum analyzer or is suitable for carrying out the miscellaneous equipment of rf power measurement.Radio frequency uses instrument 144 to be coupled to by a cable (not shown) that connects along swing arm 124 and measures antenna 142.Alternately, radio frequency uses instrument 144 and/or master controller 146 also to be coupled to EUT 122 by another cable (not shown) that test board 118 upwards connects.
A master controller 146 (for example being equipped with the personal computer of testing tool interface hardware and software) is coupled to radio frequency and uses instrument 144, step motor 140, and is coupled to azimuthal wheelwork 504 (Fig. 5) of control test board 118.Though dispensable, master controller 146 allows test to carry out automatically.
Fig. 2 is the local x ray view of the test board 118 of use in radio frequency noise reduction test cabinet 100 as shown in Figure 1, and Fig. 3 is the exploded view of test board 118 as shown in Figure 2.Referring to Fig. 2-3, test board 118 comprises lower vertical support cylinder 202, middle part vertical support cylinder 204 and upper support member 206.Form test board 118 three main elements 202,204,206 each all must satisfy the specific performance properties requirement.
Lower vertical support cylinder 202 mechanically is coupled to position angle wheelwork 504 (Fig. 5) to test board 118. and lower vertical support cylinder 202 must be resisted the torque that is produced by position angle wheelwork 504 (Fig. 5). and lower vertical support cylinder 202 is born the highest torque and mass loading. and potential senior compressing power shows that specific bulk materials is used to mechanically make lower vertical support cylinder 202 strong. on the other hand, wish to make horizontal (degree of depth) of lower vertical support cylinder 202 small-sized, so that reduce the limited degree of the mechanical disturbance of test board 118 to the polarity angular range of swing arm 124. reduce weight bearing and torque bearing capacity that lateral dimension helps to reduce lower vertical support cylinder 202. this can compensate by use thicker cross section circummure material in lower vertical support cylinder 202,, do the volume that should avoid increasing so. lower support cylinder 202 is suitable circle in sectional view, but alternately, it can have different transverse shapes. and the height control feature of test board 118 also is built in the lower vertical support cylinder 202. and the height control characteristics allow the EUT of various height and relevant device (for example phantom 120 or phantom trunk (not shown)) to aim at the virtual pivot 134 of swing arm 124. and increase a height control feature and also test board 118 has been increased quality, this should be limited to be avoided that the radio-frequency field in the chamber 100 is produced interference., by merging to the height control feature in the lower vertical support cylinder 202 rather than expanding lower vertical support cylinder 202 from start to finish up to EUT 122, then the interference of radio-frequency field in fact greatly reduces.Lower vertical support cylinder 202 is such angular ranges of subtend not usually: in this angular range, the gain of measuring antenna 142 for high and enough away from EUT 122 so that do not cause wave reflection to from EUT, sending.
By being stretched, lower vertical support cylinder 202 obtains above-mentioned height control feature.Lower vertical support cylinder 202 comprises a lower tube 208 and a upper tube 210.Under the help of a plurality of gussets 216, the bottom 212 of lower tube 208 is attached on the mounting flange 214.Bonding agent is by the lower tube 208 that suitably is used to be coupled, mounting flange 214 and gusset 216.Upper tube 210 is resized so that be mounted in the lower tube 208.The insulation axle collar 218 is used for being provided with the height that upper tube 210 is inserted into the insertion depth in the lower tube 208 and thereby test board 118 is set.The axle collar 218 comprises a plurality of flat holes 302, and upper tube has a plurality of respective threads hole group 304.Insulation screw 220 passes flat hole 302 and is threaded in one of threaded hole group 304 so that the height of test board 118 is set.
A cone absorber 205 of the type is used for 100 arrangements along the chamber, is fit to the inside of lower tube 208 but it has pruned in the bottom, and it is positioned in the lower tube 208.Cone absorber 205 in the lower vertical support cylinder 202 is used for the interaction between the floor 106 of extexine 102 of damping EUT 122 and test cabinet 100, and this can additionally reduce the ripple performance of chamber 100.
Be used to lower vertical support cylinder 202 is coupled to the upper end 308 that first connecting elements 306 on the vertical support cylinder 204 placed in the middle is adhered to the upper tube 210 of lower vertical support cylinder 202.First connecting elements 306 comprise an inward flange 310 and internally edge 310 to extraradial more than first finger piece 312.The hole 314 that an axial direction threading is arranged in each of more than first finger piece 312.
Vertical support cylinder 204 placed in the middle comprises a large diameter thin wall insulation tube 222.The upper tube 210 of insulation tube 222 and lower vertical support cylinder 202 and lower tube 208 diameter group mutually are big and have a thinner wall.Though as shown in the figure, insulation tube 222 has the shape of a circular cross sections, and alternately, insulation tube 222 can have a different transverse shape.The practical insulating material that is suitable for constituting test board 118 (comprising vertical support cylinder 204 placed in the middle) has the dielectric constant that surpasses to a certain degree at radio frequency, and this degree is enough to cause the bellows-shaped of disturbing and reducing test cabinet 100 in the radio-frequency field in the test cabinet 100.The inventor has been found that: by using an extremely thin wall pipe 222, the radio frequency wave reflection relevant with vertical support cylinder placed in the middle 204 can reduce.Preferably, the wall of thin walled tube 222 is less than 1.5mm thick (perhaps 2% of the free space wavelength of the ripple that sends less than EUT122).In order to keep necessary strength and flintiness to support EUT 122 and any relevant equipment (for example, phantom 120 or phantom trunk (not shown)), the diameter of thin walled tube 222 is increased.Preferably, the diameter of thin walled tube 222 is at least 30 centimetres.Suitably, thin walled tube is made by glass fibre., increase the diameter of thin walled tube 222, this will be placed on thin walled tube 222 in the direct sight line of measuring between antenna 142 and the EUT 122 when the high polarity angle of swing arm 124, and this tends to worsen the ripple of test cabinet 100.It is believed that this fact of the ripple that this deterioration should be sent at high polarity angle place owing to thin walled tube local reflex EUT.
Vertical support cylinder 204 placed in the middle also comprises one deck radio frequency absorption material 224, its cylindrical surface 325 along thin walled tube 222 is involved in the pipe and is assembled in the thin walled tube 222. and Fig. 4 shows this layers of absorbent material 224. as shown in Figure 4 with the state that spreads out, absorbing material 224 comprises a solid lower sideband and last rib 404 of material 402, last rib 404 comprise from material 402 solid with upwardly extending a series of tapering parts 406. among embodiment as shown in Figure 4, tapering part 406 is leg-of-mutton. alternately, though the nonlinear conical part can be provided. absorbing material 224 suitably is that half of thin walled tube 222 height can rational prediction to 2/3.: include in absorbing material with preferential absorption EUT in high polarity angle (with respect to the angle of EUT) near the absorbing material direction thus the rf wave of emission and reduce the ripple performance, but the absorbing material 224 that in fact is included in the vertical support cylinder 204 placed in the middle has improved the ripple performance. the design balance of the absorbing material 224 shown in Fig. 2-4 to two physical effects of ripple. first physical effect is: include absorbing material 224 in and tend to the ripple of decaying and pointing on the high polarity angle. a back physical effect will show as and show and comprise the improper of absorbing material 224. no matter first physical effect, second physical effect is considered to explain the improvement ripple performance that obtains with absorbing material, this effect is: the absorbing material 224 electromagnetic reflection relevant with vertical support cylinder placed in the middle 204 that decayed. these reflections have reduced the ripple performance., too many absorber will increase first physical effect and reduce the ripple performance. and the conical design shown in Fig. 2-4 has been proved to be between these two competition effects and has obtained a good balance. alternately, can use conduct along other reduction absorber total amount of the height function of vertical support cylinder 204 placed in the middle or the design of intensity. standby example comprises than the point of low-density (number in per unit zone) or the pattern of other shape, the perhaps point of reduced size or the model of other shape. suitably, absorbing material 224 is made by the section that carbon loads the radio frequency absorption material of open mesh foam or another type. alternately, replace the self-supporting layer, though can use a radio frequency absorption material coating. particular job theory of the present invention is provided here, and the present invention should not be interpreted as being limited by this particular theory.
Thin walled tube 222 comprises a plurality of openings 226, and it can be used for connecting cable for the proving installation of expecting therein signal to be coupled to EUT 122 or signal is coupled back from EUT 122.
Be used to lower vertical support cylinder 202 is coupled to the lower end 318 that second connecting elements 316 on the vertical support cylinder 204 placed in the middle is adhered to the thin walled tube 222 of vertical support cylinder 204 placed in the middle.Second connecting elements 316 comprises an outward flange 320, and from outward flange 320 inside more than second finger pieces 322 that radially extend.The flat hole 324 that an axial direction is arranged in each of more than second finger piece 322.For lower vertical support cylinder 202 being coupled to vertical support cylinder 204 placed in the middle, a plurality of insulated bolts 326 pass the flat hole 324 in second connecting elements 316 and are threaded into threaded hole 314 in first connecting elements 306.Two connecting elements the 306, the 316th, the insulation and use a kind of firm bonding agent to be properly connected to corresponding vertical support cylinder 202,204.When connecting elements 306,316 connects, exist in a plurality of annulus of definition between inward flange 310, outward flange 320 and overlapping more than first finger piece 312 and more than second finger piece 322.
Upper support member 206 the most close EUT 122, and therefore have the field of upsetting the EUT emission or the maximum potential that reduces the ripple performance of chamber 100., because upper support member 206 is suitably short relatively, very do not consider for the unbalance load of resisting EUT and relevant device bending strength and flintiness requirement.A kind of material that meets very much the upper support member requirement is an expanded polystyrene (EPS).Expanded polystyrene (EPS) contains near single specific inductive capacity, so it will have a relatively little disturbing influence to the radio-frequency field in the test cabinet 100 and have the weight that enough structural intergrities support EUT 122 and relevant device (for example phantom 120 or phantom trunk (not shown)) under the situation of upper support member 206 shorter length.Shown in Fig. 2-3, upper support member 206 is hexahedral shape.Alternately, upper support member 206 can have different shapes.
Fig. 5 is the local x ray side view of the test board 118 shown in Fig. 2-3, and half of U-shaped swing arm 124 that is used for supporting the measurement antenna 142 of radio frequency noise reduction test cabinet 100. the polarity gain mode of measuring antenna 142 is schematically illustrated as 502. as shown in Figure 5, swing arm 124 rotates to a high polarity angle, θ. as what in Fig. 5, can see, when swing arm 124 rotates to high polarity angle, vertical support cylinder 204 subtends placed in the middle are about measuring a three-dimensional viewpoin scope of antenna 142, the gain of wherein measuring antenna 142 is for high. in addition, and in the direct sight line of vertical support cylinder 204 placed in the middle between EUT 122 and measurement antenna 142.But, have been found that and use the test board 118 of formation described herein to obtain good ripple performance.
Be supported on the position angle wheelwork 504 that schematically shows test board 118 as shown in Figure 5.
Fig. 6 is the curve map that the ripple measured value of each test board is shown.In curve map, horizontal ordinate is represented the polarity angle and is divided with ten intervals of spending.Ordinate is represented to measure the signal level that antenna 142 is measured, and is divided with the interval of 0.5dB.As mentioned before, use one to be designed to carry out ripple and to measure with the emitting antenna that the form of the function of polarity angle is carried out homogeneous radiation.In curve map, curve 602 is ripple measurement results of test board 118, does not have cone absorber 205 and do not have absorbing material 224 in lower vertical support cylinder 202 in vertical support cylinder 204 placed in the middle.Signal level changes to the low value of the 0.8dB at 150 degree places in the high value of about 2.5dB at 0 degree place, provides the peak to peak ripple of about 1.7dB.But curve 604 is to have cone absorber 205 the ripple measurement result that does not have the test board 118 of absorbing material 224.Signal level changes to the high value of the 2.75dB at 165 degree places suddenly from the low value of the 0.95dB of 150 degree, provides the relatively poor peak to peak ripple of a 1.8dB.Curve 606 is the ripple measurement results that cone absorber 205 not only arranged in lower vertical support cylinder 202 but also the test board 118 of absorbing material 224 is arranged in vertical support cylinder 204 placed in the middle.In this case, signal level changes to the 1.05dB low value at 165 degree places, the peak to peak ripple measurement that produces the 1.35dB of an improvement from the high value of the 2.4dB of 160 degree.
Fig. 7 is the anistree prismatic upper support member 702 of test board 118 as shown in Fig. 2-3,5 according to an alternative enforcement.
Fig. 8 is the thin walled tube 802 of test board as shown in Fig. 2-3,5 according to an alternative enforcement.The model 804 of the circular piece 806 of radio frequency absorption body is supported on the thin walled tube 802.In model 804, reduce the per unit high absorption scale of construction by the size (it is the function of height) that reduces circular piece 806.
Though the preferred embodiments of the present invention and other embodiment are illustrated and describe, and know that very the present invention so is not limited.Do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention of following claim definition, those of ordinary skills will expect a lot of modifications, change, variation, replacement and equivalent.