Configurable shielded enclosure with signal transfer element
OwnerJames Patrick Reibleinventor
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Abstract
An enclosure that has an interior space sized to receive a portable electronic device. The enclosure has a shielding layer that can shield and prevent communications between the interior space and the outside world in a first configuration. In a second configuration, communication is allowed. A signal transfer element is attached to the enclosure housing that can be moved between an isolation configuration and a communication configuration.
Claims29
An enclosure for a communications device that receives and/or sends signals, the enclosure defining a space that receives the communications device wherein the enclosure further defines shielding that surrounds the communications device when it is positioned within the space, wherein the enclosure has a single transfer element that has a receiving configuration wherein signals can be received and sent by the communications device when positioned within the space and a blocked configuration wherein signals can neither be sent to nor received from the communications device when positioned within the space wherein the enclosure defines an aperture that can be opened in the receiving configuration or closed in the blocked configuration.
An enclosure for housing a personal electronic device, the enclosure comprising:
- a housing that defines an interior space, wherein the walls of the housing include a shield layer formed of a conductive material that isolates the interior space from communicating outside of the interior space, and wherein the interior space is dimensioned to receive a portable electronic device;
- an access port that permits selective access into the interior space, wherein the access port has an open and a closed configuration;
- a signal transfer element that is part of the housing and has a transmitting and an isolating configuration, wherein the signal transfer element in the transmitting configuration provides signals to and from the interior space of the housing and in the isolating configuration inhibits transmission of signals to and from the interior space to the exterior of the interior space.
A method of selectively allowing communications with a portable electronic device, the method comprising:
- positioning the portable electronic device within a portable shielded space;
- configuring the shielded space to permit communications to and from the portable electronic device by positioning a signal transfer element that is part of the housing that defines the portable shielded space in an orientation so as to receive and transmit communications;
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- configuring the shielded space to prevent communications to and from the portable electronic device by positioning the signal transfer element into an orientation so that the signal transfer element does not receive and transmit communications wherein positioning the portable electronic device within a portable shielded space comprises positioning device within an enclosure having an access port wherein the enclosure and access port defines a faraday cage when the access port is in a closed position.
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