Communication device reception sensitivity measurement method and communication device noise control effect evaluation method using the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11757546-B2
Application number	US-202117411996-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 25, 2021
Priority date	Feb 28, 2019
Publication date	Sep 12, 2023
Grant date	Sep 12, 2023

Abstract

A method with which the reception sensitivity of a communication device can be measured accurately and with satisfactory reproducibility and a method with which the effect of noise control performed upon a communication device can be accurately evaluated. A first communication device in a nonreflective environment in an anechoic chamber wirelessly receives a test signal transmitted from a pseudo base station through an attached antenna thereof at the same time when a second communication device near the first communication device receives the test signal through a signal line. The first communication device is simultaneously subjected to the interference of noise generated by the second communication device at the attached antenna. Thus, the noise is made to interfere with the attached antenna of the first communication device without disassembling the first communication device and moving the first communication device in the nonreflective environment.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A communication device reception sensitivity measurement method of measuring reception sensitivity of a communication device, comprising:
placing a first communication device and a second communication device close to each other in a nonreflective environment in which no radio wave is reflected, the first communication device having an antenna terminal connected to an attached antenna and being a measurement target of reception sensitivity, and the second communication device having an antenna terminal connected to a signal line instead of an attached antenna and having the same configuration as the first communication device;
wirelessly transmitting a test signal from a pseudo communication station to the attached antenna of the first communication device through a communication antenna placed at a predetermined distance from the first communication device in the environment and transmitting the test signal from a pseudo communication station to the second communication device through the signal line;
creating noise interference by operating the second communication device to cause the second communication device to generate noise while the test signal is wirelessly transmitted to the attached antenna of the first communication device and making the generated noise interfere with the attached antenna of the first communication device;
wirelessly transmitting a return signal from the first communication device to the pseudo communication station through the attached antenna and the communication antenna in response to the test signal; and
measuring reception sensitivity of the first communication device based on the return signal.

2. The communication device reception sensitivity measurement method according to claim 1 , wherein
in the creating noise interference, a video signal circuit included in the second communication device is operated to generate noise to be made to interfere with the attached antenna of the first communication device.

3. The communication device reception sensitivity measurement method according to claim 1 , wherein
in the creating noise interference, an audio signal circuit included in the second communication device is operated to generate noise to be made to interfere with the attached antenna of the first communication device.

4. The communication device reception sensitivity measurement method according to claim 1 , wherein
in the creating noise interference, a communication circuit included in the second communication device is operated to generate noise to be made to interfere with the attached antenna of the first communication device.

5. A communication device noise control effect evaluation method comprising:
measuring pre-noise control reception sensitivity of the first communication device using the communication device reception sensitivity measurement method according to claim 1 ;
executing noise control by disassembling the second communication device, performing noise control upon a noise source of noise generated by the second communication device in the creating noise interference, reassembling the second communication device, and relocating the second communication device in the environment;
measuring post-noise control reception sensitivity of the first communication device using the communication device reception sensitivity measurement method; and
evaluating an effect of the noise control by comparing the measured pre-noise control reception sensitivity and the measured post-noise control reception sensitivity.

6. The communication device noise control effect evaluation method according to claim 5 , wherein
in the executing noise control, the noise control is performed by providing a noise filter with the noise source.

7. The communication device noise control effect evaluation method according to claim 6 , wherein
in the executing noise control, the noise control is performed by covering the noise source with a metal shield.

8. The communication device noise control effect evaluation method according to claim 6 , wherein
in the executing noise control, the noise control is performed by covering the noise source with a radio wave absorption sheet.

9. The communication device noise control effect evaluation method according to claim 5 , wherein
in the executing noise control, the noise control is performed by covering the noise source with a metal shield.

10. The communication device noise control effect evaluation method according to claim 5 , wherein
in the executing noise control, the noise control is performed by covering the noise source with a radio wave absorption sheet.

11. A communication device noise control effect evaluation method comprising:
measuring pre-noise control reception sensitivity of the first communication device using the communication device reception sensitivity measurement method according to claim 2 ;
executing noise control by disassembling the second communication device, performing noise control upon a noise source of noise generated by the second communication device in the creating noise interference, reassembling the second communication device, and relocating the second communication device in the environment;
measuring post-noise control reception sensitivity of the first communication device using the communication device reception sensitivity measurement method; and
evaluating an effect of the noise control by comparing the measured pre-noise control reception sensitivity and the measured post-noise control reception sensitivity.

12. The communication device noise control effect evaluation method according to claim 11 , wherein
in the executing noise control, the noise control is performed by providing a noise filter with the noise source.

13. The communication device noise control effect evaluation method according to claim 12 , wherein
in the executing noise control, the noise control is performed by covering the noise source with a metal shield.

14. The communication device noise control effect evaluation method according to claim 12 , wherein
in the executing noise control, the noise control is performed by covering the noise source with a radio wave absorption sheet.

15. A communication device noise control effect evaluation method comprising:
measuring pre-noise control reception sensitivity of the first communication device using the communication device reception sensitivity measurement method according to claim 3 ;
executing noise control by disassembling the second communication device, performing noise control upon a noise source of noise generated by the second communication device in the creating noise interference, reassembling the second communication device, and relocating the second communication device in the environment;
measuring post-noise control reception sensitivity of the first communication device using the communication device reception sensitivity measurement method; and
evaluating an effect of the noise control by comparing the measured pre-noise control reception sensitivity and the measured post-noise control reception sensitivity.

16. The communication device noise control effect evaluation method according to claim 15 , wherein
in the executing noise control, the noise control is performed by providing a noise filter with the noise source.

17. The communication device noise control effect evaluation method according to claim 16 , wherein
in the executing noise control, the noise control is performed by covering the noise source with a metal shield.

18. The communication d

Assignees

• Murata Manufacturing Co

Inventors

• Shimomura Akiko
• Ito Kenichi
• Ishiwata Yu

Classifications

• H04B17/294

  with test equipment located at the receiver · CPC title

• H04B17/0085 Primary

  using test signal generators · CPC title

• H04B17/345 Primary

  Interference values ({signal-to-interference ratio [SIR] or carrier-to-interference ratio [CIR]} H04B17/336) · CPC title

• H05K9/00

  Screening of apparatus or components against electric or magnetic fields (devices for absorbing radiation from an antenna H01Q17/00) · CPC title

• H04B17/102

  Power radiated at antenna · CPC title