Electromagnetic field analysis method for anisotropic conductive material

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9805149-B2
Application number	US-201615054027-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 25, 2016
Priority date	Mar 25, 2015
Publication date	Oct 31, 2017
Grant date	Oct 31, 2017

Abstract

An electromagnetic field analysis method for an anisotropic conductive material obtained by laminating a first layer, in which a conductivity in a first direction is different from a conductivity in another direction, and a second layer, in which a conductivity in a second direction is different from that in another direction includes: grid-partitioning the first and second layers respectively with a first computational grid having a side extending in the first direction and a second computational grid having a side extending in the second direction; calculating an electromagnetic component of one of electric and magnetic fields in the second grid by interpolation from distribution of an electromagnetic component of the one of electric field and magnetic fields in the first grid; and calculating an electromagnetic component of the other field in the first grid by interpolation from distribution of an electromagnetic component of the other field in the second grid.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electromagnetic field analysis method for an anisotropic conductive material comprising:
setting an analytic model modeling an analytic object comprising an anisotropic conductive material to a computer, the analytic model including a first layer in which a conductivity in a predetermined first direction is different from a conductivity in another direction, and a second layer in which a conductivity in a second direction different from the first direction is different from a conductivity in another direction; and calculating by the computer one or more electromagnetic properties in the anisotropic conductive material with a computer software using a finite-difference time-domain method,
wherein the calculating the one or more electromagnetic properties comprising:
grid-partitioning the first layer by using a first computational grid having a side extending in the first direction and grid-partitioning the second layer by using a second computational grid having a side extending in the second direction;
calculating an electromagnetic component of one of an electric field and a magnetic field in the second grid by interpolation from distribution of an electromagnetic component of the one of an electric field and a magnetic field in the first grid; and
calculating an electromagnetic component of the other one of the electric field and the magnetic field in the first grid by interpolation from distribution of an electromagnetic component of the other one of the electric field and the magnetic field in the second grid,

wherein the analytic model comprises an analytic space modeling the analytic object comprising the anisotropic conductive material and a space surrounding the anisotropic conductive material, and
wherein the computer makes a peripheral boundary of the analytic space into a shape of a smooth surface, and only one of the first computational grid and the second computational grid is disposed at a periphery of the analytic space,
wherein the shape of the smooth surface of the analytic space is used to manufacture the anisotropic conductive material.

2. The electromagnetic field analysis method for the anisotropic conductive material according to claim 1 ,
wherein the first layer and the second layer are both disposed within an x-y plane and are laminated in a z-axis direction,
wherein the first computational grid comprises a cubical computational grid extending along three x, y, and z axes that are orthogonal to one another, and
wherein the second computational grid comprises a rectangular parallelepiped computational grid with a size that allows the second computational grid to be inscribed in the first computational grid, the rectangular parallelepiped computational grid being constituted of two sides extending in ±45° directions within the x-y plane and one side extending along the z axis.

3. The electromagnetic field analysis method for the anisotropic conductive material according to claim 1 ,
wherein the anisotropic conductive material is fiber reinforced plastic in which plastic is reinforced with conductive fiber extending in the first direction and the second direction.

4. The electromagnetic field analysis method for the anisotropic conductive material according to claim 2 ,
wherein the anisotropic conductive material is fiber reinforced plastic in which plastic is reinforced with conductive fiber extending in the first direction and the second direction.

5. An electromagnetic field analysis apparatus for an anisotropic conductive material comprising:
an analytic model modeling an analytic object comprising an anisotropic conductive material to a computer, the analytic model including a first layer in which a conductivity in a predetermined first direction is different from a conductivity another direction, and a second layer in which a conductivity in a second direction different from the first direction is different from a conductivity in another direction; and one or more electromagnetic properties in the anisotropic conductive material calculated by the computer with a computer software using a finite-difference time-domain method,
wherein the one or more electromagnetic properties is calculated comprising:
grid-partition the first layer by using a first computational grid having a side extending in the first direction and grid-partitioning the second layer by using a second computational grid having a side extending in the second direction;
calculate an electromagnetic component of one of an electric field and a magnetic field in the second grid by interpolation from distribution of an electromagnetic component of the one of an electric field and a magnetic field in the first grid; and
calculate an electromagnetic component of the other one of the electric field and the magnetic field in the first grid by interpolation from distribution of an electromagnetic component of the other one of the electric field and the magnetic field in the second grid,

wherein the analytic model comprises an analytic space modeling the analytic object comprising the anisotropic conductive material and a space surrounding the anisotropic conductive material; and
wherein the computer makes a peripheral boundary of the analytic space into a shape of a smooth surface, and only one of the first computational grid and the second computational grid is disposed at a periphery of the analytic space,
wherein the shape of the smooth surface of the analytic space is used to manufacture the anisotropic conductive material.

6. The electromagnetic field analysis apparatus for the anisotropic conductive material according to claim 5 ,
wherein the first layer and the second layer are both disposed within an x-y plane and are laminated in a z-axis direction,
wherein the first computational grid comprises a cubical computational grid extending along three x, y, and z axes that are orthogonal to one another, and
wherein the second computational grid comprises a rectangular parallelepiped computational grid with a size that allows the second computational grid to be inscribed in the first computational grid, the rectangular parallelepiped computational grid being constituted of two sides extending in +45° directions within the x-y plane and one side extending along the z axis.

7. The electromagnetic field analysis apparatus for the anisotropic conductive material according to claim 5 ,
wherein the anisotropic conductive material is fiber reinforced plastic in which plastic is reinforced with conductive fiber extending in the first direction and the second direction.

8. The electromagnetic field analysis apparatus for the anisotropic conductive material according to claim 6 ,
wherein the anisotropic conductive material is fiber reinforced plastic in which plastic is reinforced with conductive fiber extending in the first direction and the second direction.

Assignees

• Fuji Heavy Ind Ltd
• Subaru Corp

Inventors

• Tsubata Hiroyuki

Classifications

• G06F2113/26

  Composites · CPC title

• G06F17/10

  Complex mathematical operations {(function generation by table look-up G06F1/03; evaluation of elementary functions by calculation G06F7/544)} · CPC title

• G06F30/15

  Vehicle, aircraft or watercraft design · CPC title

• G06F30/20

  Design optimisation, verification or simulation (optimisation, verification or simulation of circuit designs G06F30/30) · CPC title

• G06F30/23

  using finite element methods [FEM] or finite difference methods [FDM] · CPC title