Smart meter protection system and methods

• US 8,861,227 B2
• Filed: 08/01/2011
• Issued: 10/14/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/02/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: EMF Safety, LLC
• Original Assignee: EMF Safety, LLC
• Inventors: Manion, Holly Ellen, Pacheco, Alfredo Rodriguez Jr., Woods, John O'Melveny, Fraley, James Joseph
• Primary Examiner(s): Thompson, Timothy
• Assistant Examiner(s): PIZZUTO, CHARLES M
• Application Number:
  US13/195,304
• Publication Number:
  US 20120026715A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,170 Days
• Field of Search: 361/816, 174/520
• US Class Current: 361/816
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 11/24 Housings ; Casings for instruments
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 1/18 Screening arrangements against electric or magnetic fields, e.g. against earth's field
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 4/64 Connections between or with conductive parts having primarily a non-electric function, e.g. frame, casing, rail
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 9/00 Screening of apparatus or components against electric or magnetic fields devices for absorbing radiation from an antenna H01Q17/00

Abstract

A smart meter protection system for decreasing intensity of radiation going into an interior of a building structure, living area, or where people frequent from a smart meter includes a redirection mechanism operably associable with the smart meter to substantially enclose an outer surface area of the smart meter so as to redirect radiation emitted from the smart meter away from the interior of the building structure, living area, or where people frequent.

Claims

1. A smart meter protection system for decreasing intensity of radiation going into an interior of a building structure, living area, or where people frequent from a smart meter, the smart meter having an outer surface area, comprising:

a redirection mechanism operably associable with the smart meter to substantially enclose the outer surface area of the smart meter so as to redirect radiation emitted from the smart meter away from the interior of the building structure, living area, or where people frequent, wherein the redirection mechanism includes a smart meter protection device.

2. The smart meter protection system of claim 1, wherein the redirection mechanism includes at least one of a smart meter protection panel and a focuser unit.

3. The smart meter protection system of claim 1, wherein the smart meter protection device includes a rectangular box configuration.

4. The smart meter protection system of claim 3, wherein the smart meter protection device includes four closed sides and two open sides.

5. The smart meter protection system of claim 4, wherein one of the two open sides accommodates the smart meter and the other of the two open sides allows redirected radiation to egress there through away from the interior of the building structure, living area, or where people frequent.

6. The smart meter protection system of claim 1, wherein the smart meter protection device includes at least one opening that allows redirected radiation to egress there through away from the interior of the building structure, living area, or where people frequent.

7. The smart meter protection system of claim 1, wherein the redirection mechanism includes a smart meter protection device and a smart meter protection panel.

8. The smart meter protection system of claim 7, wherein the smart meter protection panel is operably associable with the smart meter between the smart meter and the interior of the building structure, living area, or where people frequent to redirect the radiation emitted from the smart meter away from the interior of the building structure, living area, or where people frequent.

9. The smart meter protection system of claim 1, wherein the redirection mechanism includes a smart meter protection device, a smart meter protection panel, and a focuser unit.

10. The smart meter protection system of claim 1, wherein the redirection mechanism includes a focuser unit.

11. The smart meter protection system of claim 10, wherein the redirection mechanism is a focuser unit.

12. The smart meter protection system of claim 10, wherein the smart meter includes an outer periphery and the focuser unit is a band that is operably associable with the smart meter for directly surrounding the outer periphery of the smart meter in a ring-like fashion.

13. The smart meter protection system of claim 12, the band includes two open ends, and one of the two open ends accommodates the smart meter and the other of the two open ends allows redirected radiation to egress there through away from the interior of the building structure, living area, or where people frequent.

14. The smart meter protection system of claim 10, wherein the focuser unit includes at least one opening that allows redirected radiation to egress there through away from the interior of the building structure, living area, or where people frequent.

15. The smart meter protection system of claim 1, wherein the smart meter protection system includes a grounding wire to ground the smart meter protection system.

16. A method of using a smart meter protection system for decreasing intensity of radiation going into an interior of a building structure, living area, or where people frequent from a smart meter, comprising:

decreasing intensity of radiation going into one'"'"'s home from the smart meter associated with the building structure, living area, or where people frequent, the smart meter having an outer surface area and the redirection mechanism includes a smart meter protection device, comprising;

providing the smart meter protection system of claim 1;

operably associating the smart meter protection device with the smart meter so that smart meter protection device substantially encloses the outer surface area of the smart meter; and

redirecting radiation emitted from the smart meter away from the interior of the building structure, living area, or where people frequent with the smart meter protection device.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the redirection mechanism includes a smart meter protection panel, and operably associating includes operably associating the smart meter protection panel with the smart meter between the smart meter and the interior of the building structure, living area, or where people frequent so that smart meter protection panel redirects the radiation emitted from the smart meter away from the interior of the building structure, living area, or where people frequent.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the smart meter includes an outer periphery and the redirection mechanism includes a focuser unit that is a band, and operably associating includes directly surrounding the outer periphery of the smart meter in a ring-like fashion with the focuser unit so that the focuser unit substantially encloses the outer surface area of the smart meter and redirects radiation emitted from the smart meter away from the interior of the building structure, living area, or where people frequent.