Patents Assigned to Anritsu Corporation
  • Patent number: 10382076
    Abstract: Provided is an antenna device used for evaluating a transmission characteristic or a reception characteristic of equipment under test (EUT) having an array antenna that includes a plurality of antenna elements arranged in a plane at predetermined intervals. The antenna device includes an antenna for receiving a modulated signal radiated by the EUT via the array antenna or radiating a modulated signal to the array antenna. The antenna is disposed at a position on a z-axis perpendicular to the plane defined by the plurality of antenna elements such that a group delay distortion of the modulated signal is reduced in a near-field region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Anritsu Corporation
    Inventor: Hanako Noda
  • Patent number: 10317503
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a testing device includes a signal generator that generates a first signal output to a device under test, a channel selector provided after the signal generator and configured to select one of a plurality of channels, a signal receiver that receives the second signal supplied from the device under test, a correction value calculator that calculates a correction value for calibrating loss of a respective one of the channels, wherein the correction value calculator calculates a correction value for calibrating loss of a respective one of the channels included in the channel selector, based on a signal level received by the signal receiver via a loopback channel, when a calibration-level output state indicating a state where a signal level of the first signal generated by the signal generator reaches a predetermined transmission reference level of calibration is assumed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Anritsu Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Yamashita, Hirofumi Kanno, Toru Otani, Shinichiro Oshima
  • Patent number: 10277339
    Abstract: A measuring apparatus 10 includes: a transmission and reception unit 12 which wirelessly communicates with devices 1 to 3 under test (DUTs); a measurement unit 13 which receives data from the DUTs through the transmission and reception unit 12, measures the DUTs based on the received data and outputs measurement results; a display unit 15 which displays predetermined information regarding the measurement; a disconnection related information acquisition unit 24 which, on the condition that a connection state of the wireless communication has been changed to a disconnected state, acquires disconnection related information including information indicating a reason for changing to the disconnected state and information on a state immediately before the disconnected state; and a display control unit 14 which performs control to display the disconnection related information on the display unit 15.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Anritsu Corporation
    Inventors: Keita Masuhara, Takahiro Kasagi
  • Patent number: 10263714
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a mobile terminal testing device which tests a mobile terminal including a plurality of transmitting antennas by transmitting/receiving radio signals between the mobile terminal testing device and the mobile terminal, includes a radio signal processing module configured to transmit and receive radio signals to and from the mobile terminal and a controller configured to cause the mobile terminal to switch one from another among the plurality of transmitting antennas by a predetermined radio signal transmitted to the mobile terminal via the radio signal processing module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Anritsu Corporation
    Inventors: Kazunori Aoki, Takayuki Awano, Yuki Higuchi
  • Patent number: 9786972
    Abstract: In an end surface 32b of the second transmission line forming body 32 forming a second waveguide 30, the height of a central region 33 which includes an opening of the second transmission line 30b is a reference plane. A depressed portion 32e that is depressed to a depth greater than the length of a thread portion of a screw 205 from the reference plane is provided in a region outside the central region 33 and includes a screw hole forming position. A screw hole 32d for fixing an external circuit 200 to be connected is provided at the screw hole forming position in the depressed portion 32e. The height of a region, which is excluding the depressed portion 32e and is further away from the central region 33 than the screw hole forming position, is equal to the reference plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Anritsu Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Kawamura, Akihito Otani
  • Patent number: 9590750
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a fading simulator which conducts a fading test on a mobile communications terminal configured to receive radio signals containing respective baseband signals, includes reception modules which receive the radio signals, convert frequencies of the radio signals, and extract the baseband signals from the radio signals, respectively, reproduction processing modules which perform reproduction processing on the baseband signals extracted by the reception modules, respectively, to produce new baseband signals, a fading arithmetic module which perform fading processing on the new baseband signals produced by the reproduction processing modules individually to produce fading signals, and transmission modules which convert the fading signals produced by the fading arithmetic module into radio signals, respectively, and output the radio signals as test signals to the mobile communications terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Anritsu Corporation
    Inventor: Akihiko Suenaga
  • Publication number: 20170019195
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a fading simulator which conducts a fading test on a mobile communications terminal configured to receive radio signals containing respective baseband signals, includes reception modules which receive the radio signals, convert frequencies of the radio signals, and extract the baseband signals from the radio signals, respectively, reproduction processing modules which perform reproduction processing on the baseband signals extracted by the reception modules, respectively, to produce new baseband signals, a fading arithmetic module which perform fading processing on the new baseband signals produced by the reproduction processing modules individually to produce fading signals, and transmission modules which convert the fading signals produced by the fading arithmetic module into radio signals, respectively, and output the radio signals as test signals to the mobile communications terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicant: Anritsu Corporation
    Inventor: Akihiko Suenaga
  • Patent number: 9350499
    Abstract: A carrier aggregation testing method for a wireless communication system, includes the steps of allocating a primary component carrier between a User Equipment and a carrier aggregation testing apparatus being configured to act as a Base Station with regard to the User Equipment, allocating at least one functionally limited secondary component carrier between the User Equipment and the carrier aggregation testing apparatus, aggregating the at least one functionally limited secondary component carrier with the primary component carrier, executing a carrier aggregation test being based on a functionality of the at least one functionally limited secondary component carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Anritsu Corporation
    Inventors: Olivier Genoud, Pawel Matusz
  • Patent number: 9301169
    Abstract: A fading simulator is provided, which includes a noise generator that generates an additive white Gaussian noise signal, receives a test signal to be input to a mobile communication terminal as a test target, and adds, to the test signal, a radio wave scattering effect, using the additive white Gaussian noise signal. The fading simulator is provided with setting means for setting for causing the noise generator to generate a same additive white Gaussian noise signal as the additive white Gaussian noise signal in the first test, when a first test is performed on the mobile communication terminal, and also for setting for causing the noise generator to generate the additive white Gaussian noise signal of the predetermined level when a second test for re-simulating the first test is performed after the first test.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Anritsu Corporation
    Inventor: Akihiko Suenaga
  • Patent number: 9294945
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a test apparatus includes a reception buffer configured to store uplink data, a transmission buffer configured to store downlink data, an arithmetic processing module configured to execute reception arithmetic processing on the uplink data read from the reception buffer, and to execute transmission arithmetic processing to generate downlink data and store the generated downlink data in the transmission buffer, and a management module configured to provide, under a first predetermined condition, the arithmetic processing module with a first instruction to execute the reception arithmetic processing, and to provide, under a second predetermined condition, the transmitting/receiving module with a second instruction to transmit the downlink data stored in the transmission buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Anritsu Corporation
    Inventors: Keisuke Takizawa, Reiichi Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20160077158
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a testing device includes a signal generator that generates a first signal output to a device under test, a channel selector provided after the signal generator and configured to select one of a plurality of channels, a signal receiver that receives the second signal supplied from the device under test, a correction value calculator that calculates a correction value for calibrating loss of a respective one of the channels, wherein the correction value calculator calculates a correction value for calibrating loss of a respective one of the channels included in the channel selector, based on a signal level received by the signal receiver via a loopback channel, when a calibration-level output state indicating a state where a signal level of the first signal generated by the signal generator reaches a predetermined transmission reference level of calibration is assumed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Applicant: Anritsu Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Yamashita, Hirofumi Kanno, Toru Otani, Shinichiro Oshima
  • Patent number: 9246789
    Abstract: A testing apparatus includes a scenario processing unit that executes a test scenario for operating the testing apparatus to imitate the operation of a base station, a communication unit capable of transmitting and receiving a message to and from a mobile communication terminal, a layer processing unit for processing a message for each layer, a log data storing unit for storing log data indicating transmission of messages between the layers, and a display controller for creating a transmission schedule based on the extracted data associated with system information and causing a display unit to display the transmission schedule. The transmission schedule is written in a tabular form in which a block type of the system information is displayed at a position to which a frame for transmitting the system information is allocated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Anritsu Corporation
    Inventors: Junya Tanaka, Yasuyuki Matsuyama, Takuma Goto
  • Patent number: 9020496
    Abstract: In a system for testing a mobile communication device under test, a calculation part calculates, before a control part starts processing according to a designated measurement sequence, a total value of a data amount to be acquired as an analysis target by a transmission/reception unit in the designated measurement sequence. A determination part determines whether the calculated total value of the data amount exceeds a permissible value which has been set in advance according to a predetermined capacity of a reception data memory. If the determination part determines that the calculated total value exceeds the permissible value, the control part displays the determination result on the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Anritsu Corporation
    Inventors: Keiichi Mineda, Yoshitaka Kihara
  • Patent number: 9014643
    Abstract: A mobile terminal testing device includes a reproduction unit that reproduces a BB signal to output at least one reproduced BB signal, an adder that adds a BB signal that are frequency-shifted and a reproduced BB signal to output an added BB signal, an up-converter that generates a multicarrier test signal by making a frequency conversion of the added BB signal of an I phase and Q phase and outputs the multicarrier test signal to UE, and an analyzer that analyzes a response signal output by the UE in response to the multicarrier test signal and the analyzer includes a throughput calculation unit that calculates throughput for the multicarrier test signal and an RSRP acquisition unit that acquires RSRP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Anritsu Corporation
    Inventors: Kazunori Aoki, Naofumi Naruse, Toyohiro Kayanuma, Ikuya Otani
  • Patent number: 8970321
    Abstract: A millimeter waveband filter is provided with a resonator formed by a pair of electric wave half mirrors in a transmission line of a waveguide allowing electromagnetic waves in a predetermined frequency range of a millimeter waveband to propagate in a TE10 mode, and allows frequency components centering on the resonance frequency of the resonator to pass therethrough. A high-pass filter which has a transmission line reduced in size so as to have a cutoff frequency matching an upper limit of a lower rejection band of a filter passband is formed in a transmission line between the end of the waveguide and the electric wave half mirror, thereby increasing the attenuation of the lower rejection band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Anritsu Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Kawamura, Akihito Otani
  • Patent number: 8886486
    Abstract: To accurately test the operating state of the APD measuring device. A test device 40 includes a test signal generator 41 that generates a test signal corresponding to the center frequency of a signal to be measured and a control unit 42 that variably controls the amplitude level of a test signal in the dynamic range of an APD measuring device 1 at random, in order to test the operating state of the APD measuring device 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Anritsu Corporation
    Inventors: Sunao Ronte, Satoru Arakawa
  • Patent number: 8866635
    Abstract: [Task] To provide a smart meter evaluation device and a smart meter evaluation method capable of evaluating the operating state of a smart meter. [Means for Resolution] A smart meter evaluation device includes a demodulating unit that converts a baseband signal into digital data and outputs demodulated data, a communication information acquiring unit that acquires communication information included in the demodulated data, a signal waveform acquiring unit that acquires the waveform of the baseband signal, a signal level measuring unit that measures the level of the baseband signal, a smart meter management unit that specifies a smart meter, which is a transmission source of the demodulated data, a signal type specifying unit that specifies the signal type of the demodulated data, and a display unit that displays data, such as the communication information, the signal waveform, the signal level, smart meter specification information, and the signal type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Anritsu Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Nishizawa, Taku Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 8867643
    Abstract: Four (=M) transmission information signals are output from transmission information generating unit to linear transform unit, where they are transformed into synthesis signals by linear transform expressed by multiplication by a 2×4 matrix having complex numbers as elements. Signal processors perform signal processing corresponding to the modulation technique of test target on synthesis signals. On the resultant signals, 2×2 channel processing unit performs 2×2 pseudo channel processing, thereby forming equivalent M×N channels. Parameter setting unit sets information necessary to acquire desired M×N channel characteristics as the synthesis characteristics of linear transform unit and N×N channel processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Anritsu Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Kobayashi, Kazunori Kitagawa, Masaki Hizume
  • Patent number: 8855182
    Abstract: In an emphasis optimization device, a calculating unit calculates an inverse characteristic of an amplitude characteristic based on the amplitude characteristic of a transmission path, and an inverse Fourier transform unit performs an inverse Fourier transform on the inverse characteristic to obtain an impulse response. An extracting unit extracts, from the obtained impulse response, an impulse response corresponding to the number of taps necessary for emphasis to be added to a digital signal to be transmitted on the transmission path. An emphasis amount calculating unit converts the extracted impulse response into a value of the emphasis to calculate an emphasis amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Anritsu Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Murakami, Kosuke Sasaki, Ken Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 8832603
    Abstract: A display part is provided with a display screen with a horizontal axis representing a time and a vertical axis representing an amount of modulation and a pre-emphasis waveform image is displayed on the display screen. In the pre-emphasis waveform image, a cursor can be arranged on a tap which corresponds to a portion in which a bit can be emphasized. An emphasis waveform addition part generates an emphasis waveform corresponding to the pre-emphasis waveform image on the display screen, based on an amount of amplitude changed according to movement of the cursor, and adds the emphasis waveform to the test signal. Thus, a user is allowed to make a setting with intuitive operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Anritsu Corporation
    Inventors: Taketo Saito, Tomoyuki Ikai