Smart meter protection system and methods

• US 8,867,233 B2
• Filed: 11/04/2011
• Issued: 10/21/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/02/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• 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:
  US13/289,754
• Publication Number:
  US 20120287596A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,082 Days
• Field of Search: 361/816, 174/520
• US Class Current: 361/816
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 4/002 Remote reading of utility meters
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 1/18 Screening arrangements against electric or magnetic fields, e.g. against earth's field
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 9/0001 Rooms or chambers anechoic chambers G01R29/0821
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 90/20 Smart grids as enabling technology in buildings sector smart grids supporting the management or operation of end-user stationary applications in general, or like technologies with no associated climate change mitigation effect Y04S20/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 20/30 Smart metering, e.g. specially adapted for remote reading

Abstract

A smart meter protection system for decreasing intensity of radiation going into one'"'"'s home from a smart meter associated with the building structure includes a redirection mechanism operably associable with the smart meter to partially enclose a smart meter so as to redirect radiation emitted from the smart meter away from the interior of the building structure.

Claims

1. A smart meter protection system for decreasing intensity of radiation going into one'"'"'s home, building structure, or living area from a smart meter, the smart meter having an outer surface area, comprising:

a redirection mechanism operably associable with the smart meter to partially enclose 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.

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.

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 to redirect the radiation emitted from the smart meter away from the interior of the building structure.

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.

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.

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 one'"'"'s home from a smart meter, comprising:

decreasing intensity of radiation going into one'"'"'s home from the smart meter associated with the building structure, the smart meter having an outer surface area, 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 partially encloses the smart meter; and

redirecting radiation emitted from the smart meter away from the interior of the building structure with the smart meter protection device.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the redirection mechanism includes a smart meter protection panel and focuser unit, and operably associating includes operably associating the focuser unit with the smart meter so that the focuser unit encloses the outer surface area of the smart meter and the smart meter protection panel is operably associating with the smart meter between the smart meter and the interior of the building structure to redirect radiation emitted from the smart meter away from the interior of the building structure.

18. 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 so that smart meter protection panel redirects the radiation emitted from the smart meter away from the interior of the building structure.

19. 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 partially 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.