Device and system for protecting a person from RF radiation

• US 9,659,486 B2
• Filed: 07/03/2014
• Issued: 05/23/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/03/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Martin Weinberg, Norman R. Sorensen
• Original Assignee: Martin Weinberg, Norman R. Sorensen
• Inventors: Weinberg, Martin, Sorensen, Norman R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Backer, Firmin
• Assistant Examiner(s): Aziz, Adnan
• Application Number:
  US14/323,538
• Publication Number:
  US 20150009044A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,055 Days
• Field of Search: 34087007
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 29/0814 Field measurements related to measuring influence on or from apparatus, components or humans EMC, EMI and similar testing in general G01R31/001, e.g. in ESD, EMI, EMC, EMP testing, measuring radiation leakage; detecting presence of micro- or radiowave emitters; dosimetry; testing shielding; measurements related to lightning
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 29/0857 Dosimetry, i.e. measuring the time integral of radiation intensity; Level warning devices for personal safety use nuclear radiation dosimetry G01T
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 29/0871 Complete apparatus or systems; circuits, e.g. receivers or amplifiers G01R29/0878, G01R29/0892 take precedence; dosimeters, warning devices G01R29/0857
• CPC Class Codes: G01T 1/02 Dosimeters G01T1/15 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01T 1/17 Circuit arrangements not adapted to a particular type of detector pulse-selection circuits H03K, G01R
• CPC Class Codes: G01T 7/00 Details of radiation-measuring instruments
• CPC Class Codes: G01T 7/125 Alarm- or controlling circuits using ionisation chambers, proportional counters or Geiger-Mueller tubes, also functioning as UV detectors measuring radiation intensity with counting tubes G01T1/18; measuring radiation intensity with ionisation chambers G01T1/185; flame monitoring in combustion devices F23Q7/00, F23N; fire alarms actuated by presence of radiation of particles, e.g. of infrared radiation, of ions G08B17/11; discharge tubes per se H01J47/00
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/02 using a radio link
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3838 Arrangements for reducing RF exposure to the user, e.g. by changing the shape of the transceiver while in use

Abstract

A radiofrequency (“RF”) transmitter site protection system and an RF radiation protection device are provided. The RF radiation protection device includes a control system and a communication module. The control system includes a processor. The communication module is adapted to communicate with a device operable to sense RF radiation and to receive data representative of a level of the RF radiation proximate the RF safety monitoring device from the RF safety monitoring device.

Claims

1. A method of monitoring a radiofrequency (“

RF”

) transmitting site, comprising;

providing at least one on-site unit located at the RF transmitting site, and a base unit located remote from the RF transmitting site;

using the on-site unit to sense the presence of a cell phone located at the RF transmitting site, by sensing for signals emitted by the cell phone, and which sensing does not utilize communication from the on-site unit to the cell phone at the RF transmitting site;

using the at least one on-site unit to sense RF radiation at the RF transmitting site once the presence of the cell phone at the RF transmitting site is determined, including determining a level of the sensed RF radiation; and

using the on-site unit to communicate the presence of the cell phone at the RF transmitting site to the base unit.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising using at least one of the on-site unit or the base unit to determine a period of time the cell phone is present at the RF transmitting site.

3. The method of claim 2, further including using at least one of the base unit or the on-site unit to determine a total amount of the sensed RF radiation sensed by the on-site unit during the period of time the cell phone is present at the RF transmitting site.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the cell phone includes an RF radiation sensing device.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the cell phone includes at least one processor in communication with the RF radiation sensing device, and a software application stored in a memory device in communication with the processor, which software application includes instructions executable by the processor, wherein the instructions when executed cause the processor to determine a level of RF radiation sensed by the RF radiation sensing device portion of the cell phone.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the instructions when executed further cause the processor to determine a period of time the RF radiation sensing device portion of the cell phone senses the RF radiation.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the instructions when executed further cause the processor to determine a total amount of the RF radiation sensed by the RF radiation sensing device portion of the cell phone.