Evaluating the RF-emissions of automotive cable harness

摘要

In this paper the problems of reproducibility of emission tests in automotive systems according to legal standards are discussed and some practical solutions are presented. A central point takes hereby the cable harness, as it is the main radiating element of the test set-up. Numerical field simulations show how an optimized cable harness layout may reduce the influence of geometrical deviations in the test set-up, so enhancing the reproducibility and providing more reliable tests for the component development process.