Presentation 1998/3/16
Numerical Calculation of Human-Body Capacitance by Surface Charge Method
Takanori IKAWA, Jianqing WANG, Osamu FUJIWARA,
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Abstract(in English) The electromagnetic noise due to electrostatic discharge (ESD) causes a serious failure to information devices. One of the prime cause for such ESD events is known to be electrification phenomena of a human body (HB), in which the HB electric potential relates directly to a HB electrostatic capacitance. The factors that govern the HB capacitance, however, are not well examined. For this reason, the capacitance of the HB standing on the ground was numerically investigated in this paper. The surface charge method was used to calculate the HB capacitance of three kinds of polyhedron models in the HB shape having different sub-areas, which were 781, 917 and 1, 529 surfaces. As a result it was found that the capacitance value increases as the foot soles approaches the ground, which falls in the range from 120 to 130 pF when the HB stands at the same location as the shoe sole height from the ground. Measurement of the HB capacitance was conducted to validate the calculated findings.
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Keyword(in English) ESD / surface charge method / polyhedron model / human-body capacitance
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Title (in English) Numerical Calculation of Human-Body Capacitance by Surface Charge Method
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Keyword(1) ESD
Keyword(2) surface charge method
Keyword(3) polyhedron model
Keyword(4) human-body capacitance
1st Author's Name Takanori IKAWA
1st Author's Affiliation Faculty of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology()
2nd Author's Name Jianqing WANG
2nd Author's Affiliation Faculty of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology
3rd Author's Name Osamu FUJIWARA
3rd Author's Affiliation Faculty of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology
Date 1998/3/16
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Volume (vol) vol.97
Number (no) 608
Page pp.pp.-
#Pages 6
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