A testing device includes a testing socket and a reflector. The testing socket defines an accommodating space. The reflector is disposed in the accommodating space and has a plurality of reflection surfaces non-parallel with each other. The reflection surfaces define a transmission space.

Testing apparatuses, and methods for using such apparatuses to calibrate and test an antenna, include a chamber that includes a lining, the lining being made from a material that is absorptive to radiation at a test wavelength. An adjustable platform is positioned at a first side of the chamber, the adjustable platform being rotatable to change an orientation of a device under test. A probe is positioned at a second side of the chamber, opposite to the first side of the chamber, that measures electromagnetic radiation from the device under test. A vector network analyzer communicates with the device under test and the probe to determine calibration information for the device under test.

A temperature test apparatus 1 includes a test antenna 6 configured to transmit or receive a radio signal to or from the antennas 110 in order to measure reception characteristics or transmission characteristics of the DUT 100, a heat-insulating housing 70 made of heat-insulating material surrounding a space region 71 including a quiet zone QZ, and a measuring device 20 configured to measure the transmission characteristics or the reception characteristics of the DUT 100. The heat-insulating housing 70 has a flat plate shaped part 70a in a region through which radio waves of a radio signal transmitted from the test antenna 6 passes before entering the quiet zone QZ. The flat plate shaped part 70a is perpendicular to the traveling direction of the radio waves of the radio signal entering the quiet zone QZ.

A test system for testing a device under test is provided including at least one feed antenna, a shielded chamber, and at least a first reflector and a second reflector. The test system is a compact antenna test range. The first reflector and the second reflector are arranged inside the shielded chamber. The first reflector is configured and arranged such that it redirects outgoing test signals emitted by the at least one feed antenna towards the second reflector and incoming test signals coming from the second reflector towards the at least one feed antenna. The device under test is arranged outside the shielded chamber. The shielded chamber includes at least a first interface associated with the device under test. The first interface and the feed antenna are located at different sides of the shielded chamber, which are perpendicular to each other.

A measurement device for measuring performance of at least one antenna system in a first frequency band and in a second frequency band. The measurement device including an outer chamber having inwardly radio frequency reflective walls configured to enclose the antenna system, an inner chamber deployable inside the outer chamber, the inner chamber having radio frequency absorptive walls configured to enclose the antenna system, a first test antenna arrangement arranged inside the outer chamber and configured for a measurement operation in the first frequency band, and a second test antenna arrangement arranged inside the inner chamber and configured for a measurement operation in the second frequency band, thereby enabling measuring performance of the antenna system in a reflective radio frequency environment by the first test antenna arrangement and measuring performance in an essentially anechoic radio frequency environment by the second test antenna arrangement.

A test apparatus includes a test antenna that is provided in an OTA chamber 50 and transmits or receives a radio signal to or from an antenna 110 of a DUT 100, and a measurement device that measures transmission characteristics or reception characteristics of the DUT 100 disposed in a quiet zone QZ, by using the test antenna. The test antenna includes a reflector reflection type test antenna 6a that transmits or receives a radio signal to or from the antenna 110 of the DUT via a reflector 7, and mirror reflection type test antennae 6b, 6c, 6d, 6e, and 6f that transmits or receives a radio signal to or from the antenna 110 of the DUT via mirrors 9b to 9f.

There is provided a test apparatus that measures transmission characteristics or reception characteristics of a DUT having an antenna under test, and includes an anechoic box, a posture changeable mechanism 56, a first test antenna 6a and a second test antenna 6b, for measuring the transmission characteristics or the reception characteristics of the DUT, a reflector that reflects a radio signal radiated by the first test antenna and converts the radio signal into a plane wave radio signal, and a movable antenna mechanism 60 that moves a position of the second test antenna such that the radio signal is transmitted to or received from the DUT installed in a far field at a plurality of angles of arrival, with reference to a radio-wave arrival direction from the first test antenna.

A method for aligning test environments is provided. The method inlcudes: measuring, by a measurement device located in an anechoic chamber, a standard signal transmitted from a base station simulator and went through to a channel emulator, then output with noise added inside the channel emulator, to multiple antennas within the anechoic chamber; obtaining, by a computing device, measurement information based on the standard signal and the noise transmitted from the measurement device; determining, by the computing device, whether the measurement information is within a predetermined range of a target value; and transmitting, by the computing device, a control signal to the channel emulator to adjust the noise output from the channel emulator so that the computing device obtains desired measurement information based on the standard signal and the adjusted noise when the measurement information is not within the predetermined range of the target value.

A shielding box for testing a transmission antenna and a reception antenna includes a first box, a second box, a third box, and an absorption material. The transmission antenna is positioned in the first box. The reception antenna is positioned in the third box. The absorption material is distributed over the inner surfaces of the first box, the second box, and the third box, respectively. The third box is connected through the second box to the first box. The second box provides a relatively narrow connection path for reducing the multipath interference between the transmission antenna and the reception antenna.

A radiation susceptibility testing method includes transmitting radiation waves to a device under test, measuring the device under test to obtain a first voltage according to the radiation waves, outputting a reference voltage to a coupling device so that the coupling device generates a second voltage according to the reference voltage, adjusting the reference voltage to approximate the second voltage to the first voltage, storing the adjusted reference voltage, and outputting the second voltage to the device under test according to the adjusted reference voltage to simulate the impact of the radiation waves to the device under test.