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Size Effect of Ground Patterns on FM-Band Cross-Talks between Two Parallel Signal Traces of Printed Circuit Boards for Vehicles

2011; Volume: 131; Issue: 12 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1541/ieejeiss.131.2034

1348-8155

Michihira Iida, Tsuyoshi Maeno, Jianqing Wang, Osamu Fujiwara,

Electromagnetic Compatibility and Measurements

Electromagnetic disturbances in vehicle-mounted radios are mainly caused by conducted noise currents flowing through wiring-harnesses from vehicle-mounted printed circuit boards (PCBs) with common slitting ground patterns. To suppress these kinds of noise currents, we previously measured them for simple two-layer PCBs with two parallel signal traces and slitting or non-slitting ground patterns, and then investigated by the FDTD simulation the reduction characteristics of the FM-band cross-talk noise levels between two parallel signal traces on six simple PCB models having different slitting ground or different divided ground patterns parallel to the traces. As a result, we found that the contributory factor for the FM-band cross-talk reduction is the reduction of mutual inductance between the two parallel traces, and also the noise currents from PCBs can rather be suppressed even if the size of the return ground becomes small. In this study, to investigate this finding, we further simulated the frequency characteristics of cross-talk reduction for additional six simple PCB models with different dividing dimensions ground patterns parallel to the traces, which revealed an interesting phenomenon that cross-talk reduction characteristics do not always decrease with increasing the width between the divided ground patterns.