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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2007
William H. Berkman, New York, NY (US);
William H. Berkman, New York, NY (US);
Current Technologies, LLC, Germantown, MD (US);
Abstract
A passive bypass device for providing a data path around a power meter is provided. The device may be communicatively connected to two low voltage power line energized conductors on a first and a second side of a power meter. The energized power line conductors conduct both the data signals and the power. The bypass device includes a filter that causes the power to pass through the power meter while allowing the data signal to pass around the power meter thereby providing a substantially non-attenuated data signal path. The bypass device may include a first and second data path for the first and second energized conductors and with each path having a high pass filter and a fuse communicatively connected to its respective energized conductor on each side of the power meter.