Radio frequency communication analysis system

• US 20080150814A1
• Filed: 11/02/2007
• Published: 06/26/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/03/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Commissariat a L'Energie Atomique (AES Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Commissariat a L'Energie Atomique (AES Corporation)
• Inventors: Zeller, Clement, Lamotte, Francis, Hedou, Benoit, Thomas, Thierry
• Application Number:
  US11/982,742
• Publication Number:
  US 20080150814A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 343/703
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/02 Amplitude-modulated carrier systems, e.g. using on-off keying; Single sideband or vestigial sideband modulation H04L27/32 takes precedence

Abstract

A device for measuring variations of a magnetic field generated by a first element and likely to be modulated by this first element as well as by a second distinct element present in the field, comprising a first winding adapted to the first element and a second winding adapted to the second element, the measurement device being distinct from both elements.

Claims

1. A device for measuring variations of a magnetic field generated by a first element and likely to be modulated by this first element as well as by a second distinct element present in the field, comprising a first winding adapted to the first element and a second winding adapted to the second element, the measurement device being distinct from both elements.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the second winding comprises at least two associated loops such that the current induced by the field of the first element changes direction from one loop to the other, the two loops being electrically in series.

3. The device of claim 2, wherein a first loop of the second winding has a shape and a size such that this loop can inscribe within the outline of a planar antenna of the second element, a second loop having a shape and a size such that it is then outside of said outline.

4. The device of claim 2, wherein the loops of the second winding have shapes and sizes such that they can inscribe within the outline of a planar antenna of the second element, one of the two loops being more central than the other with respect to this outline.

5. The device of claim 4, wherein a first loop has the approximate shape of nippers of a size such that its jaws can inscribe within the outline of the antenna of the second element, a second loop having an outline approximately inscribing within the first loop.

6. The device of claim 2, wherein the surfaces defined by the two loops are approximately equal.

7. The device of claim 1, wherein the first winding forms a nipper-shaped loop of a size such that the outline of a planar antenna of the second element is capable of inscribing between the external and internal outlines of the nipperjaws.

8. The device of claim 1, wherein the two windings are formed on a same support

9. A system for analyzing a radio-frequency communication between a first element of transmission of a magnetic field sensed by a second element likely to modulate this field, the system comprising:

a measurement device distinct from the two elements and provided with two windings respectively adapted to the first and the second elements; and

an analysis device provided with two acquisition paths respectively dedicated to the two windings.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein each acquisition path comprises a synchronous analog-to-digital converter.

11. The system of claim 9, comprising a device provided with a visual indicator for aiding the positioning of at least one of the windings with respect to the second element by means of a measurement of the amplitude of the detected signal.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein the measurement device measures variations of the magnetic field generated by the first element and likely to be modulated by the first element as well as by the second element.

13. The system of claim 9, wherein the second element is a contactless smart card and the first element is a card reader.