Generic electromagnetically-countered methods

#The present invention relates to an electromagnetically-countered system including at least one wave source irradiating harmful electromagnetic waves and at least one counter unit emitting counter electromagnetic waves for countering the harmful waves by such counter waves. More particularly, the present invention relates to generic counter units of electromagnetically-countered systems and to various mechanisms for countering the harmful waves by the counter units such as, e.g., by matching configurations of the counter units with those of the wave sources, matching shapes of such counter waves with shapes of the harmful waves, and the like. The present invention also relates to various methods of countering the harmful waves with the counter waves by such source matching or wave matching and various methods of providing the counter units as well as counter waves. The present invention further relates to various processes for providing such systems, such counter units thereof, and the like. The present invention relates to various electric and/or magnetic shields which may be used alone or in conjunction with such counter units to minimize irradiation of the harmful waves from the system.

#It is now well established in the scientific community that electromagnetic waves with varying frequencies irradiated by various devices may be hazardous to human health. In some cases, such electromagnetic waves in mega- and giga-hertz range may be the main culprit, whereas the 60-hertz electromagnetic waves may be the main health concern in other cases. It cannot be too emphasized that it is very difficult to shield against magnetic waves of the 60-hertz electromagnetic waves which have wavelengths amounting to thousands of kilometers and that such 60-hertz magnetic waves are omnipresent in any corner of the current civilization.

#However, intensity of such electromagnetic waves typically decreases inversely proportional to a square of a distance from a source of such waves to a target. Accordingly, potentially adverse effects from such electromagnetic waves may be minimized by maintaining a safe distance from such a source. Some electrical devices, however, are intended to be used in a close proximity to an user, where typical examples of such devices are hair dryers, hair curlers, electric mattresses or blankets, heating pads, earphones, headphones, mobile phones, razors, toothbrushes, and the like. However, all prior art devices have failed to provide remedies to such potential hazards. For example, various prior art electric blankets and mattresses and their shortcomings have been provided in the above co-pending application of U.S. Ser. No. 11/313,921 entitled “Electromagnetically-Shielded Air Heating Systems and Methods,” and various radiative heaters and their shortcomings have been summarized in another co-pending application of U.S. Ser. No. 11/403,899 entitled “Electromagnetically-Shielded Radiative Heating Systems and Methods.” Various conventional speakers and their shortcomings have been itemized in a co-pending application entitled “Electromagnetically-Countered Speaker Systems and Methods” which now issued to U.S. Pat. No. 8,041,048, while various conventional electric actuators and their shortcomings have been described in the co-pending application entitled “Electromagnetically-Countered Actuator Systems and Methods,” which now issued to U.S. Pat. No. 8,148,728.

#FIGS. 1A to 1F are top schematic views of exemplary electromagnetic countering mechanisms in each of which a single counter unit emits counter waves to counter harmful waves irradiated by a single base unit of a single wave source according to the present invention;

#FIGS. 2A to 2F are top schematic views of exemplary electromagnetic countering mechanisms in each of which multiple counter units emit counter waves to counter harmful waves irradiated by a single base unit of a single wave source according to the present invention;

#FIGS. 3A to 3I are schematic perspective views of exemplary counter units incorporated into speakers including various base units according to the present invention;

#The present invention relates to an electromagnetically-countered system including at least one wave source irradiating harmful electromagnetic waves and at least one counter unit emitting counter electromagnetic waves for countering the harmful waves by the counter waves, e.g., by canceling at least a portion of the harmful waves by the counter waves, by suppressing the harmful waves from propagating to a target space, and the like. More particularly, the present invention relates to generic counter units of the electromagnetically-countered systems and to various mechanisms for countering the harmful waves which are irradiated from various base units of the wave sources by the counter units. Accordingly, the counter unit may be shaped, sized, and/or arranged to match its configuration with configuration of the base unit of the wave source, thereby emitting such counter waves which automatically match characteristics of such harmful waves. In the alternative, the counter unit may be shaped, sized, and/or disposed in an arrangement which is defined along one or more wavefronts of the harmful waves, thereby emitting the counter waves which automatically match characteristics of the harmful waves. The present invention also relates to various counter units which are provided as analogs of the base unit of the wave source, where the analog may approximate the base unit which is more complex than such a counter unit, where the three- or two-dimensional base unit may also be approximated as the two- or one-dimensional analog, and the like. The present invention also relates to multiple simple counter units which are simpler than the base unit but disposed in an arrangement approximating such a shape and/or arrangement of the base unit. The present invention also relates to the counter unit which may be shaped and/or sized according to the configuration of the base unit and disposition thereof. In addition, the present invention relates to various countering modes where a single counter unit may counter a single base unit, at least two but not all of multiple base units or all of multiple base units, where multiple counter units may counter a single base unit, more base units or less multiple units, and the like. The present invention then relates to various electric and/or magnetic shields which may be used alone or in conjunction with the counter units to minimize irradiation of the harmful waves from the system.

#The present invention also relates to various methods of countering the harmful waves by the counter waves by such source matching or wave matching. More particularly, the present invention relates to various methods forming the counter unit as an analog of the base unit and then emitting the counter waves matching such harmful waves, various methods of approximating the base unit by the simpler counter unit for the countering and various methods of approximating the base unit by multiple simpler counter units. The present invention also relates to various methods of disposing the counter unit along the wavefronts of the harmful waves and then emitting the counter waves for automatically matching such wavefronts of the harmful waves, various methods of disposing multiple counter units along the wavefronts of the harmful waves and then emitting the counter waves by the counter units for automatically matching such wavefronts, and the like. In addition, the present invention relates to various methods of manipulating the wavefronts of the counter waves by disposing the counter unit closer to and/or farther away from the target space with respect to the base unit, various methods of controlling radii of curvature of the wavefronts of the counter waves by incorporating one or multiple counter units emitting such counter waves of the same or opposite phase angles, various methods of adjusting the wavefronts of the counter waves by disposing one or multiple counter units defining the shapes similar to or different from the shapes of the base units, and the like. The present invention also relates to various methods of countering the harmful waves from one or multiple base units with the counter waves emitted by the single or multiple counter units. Accordingly, the present invention relates to various methods of emitting such counter waves from a single counter unit for the harmful waves irradiated by one or more base units, various methods of emitting such counter waves by two or more counter units for the harmful waves irradiated by a single or multiple base units, and the like. In addition, the present invention relates to various methods of minimizing irradiation of such harmful waves by incorporating such electric shields, by incorporating the magnetic shields, by incorporating one or both of such shields in conjunction with the above counter units, and the like.

#The present invention further relates to various processes for providing various counter units and various systems incorporating one or multiple counter units therein. More particularly, the present invention relates to various processes for forming the counter units to emit the counter waves having the wavefronts similar to (or different from) such shapes of the counter units, various processes for forming the counter units as the above analogs of the base units, various processes for providing the counter units emitting such counter waves which define the similar or opposite phase angles, various processes for providing such counter units with the wavefronts shaped similar to the harmful waves, various processes for disposing the counter units in a preset arrangement and emitting therefrom the counter waves which have the wavefronts similar to such an arrangement, and the like. The present invention also relates to various processes for assigning the single counter unit to counter the harmful waves irradiated by the single base unit for a local countering or to counter such harmful waves from multiple base units for a global countering, various processes for assigning multiple counter units to counter the harmful waves irradiated by the single base unit for the global countering or to counter the harmful waves from multiple base units for the local or global countering depending on numbers of the counter and base units. The present invention further relates to various processes for incorporating the electric and/or magnetic shields for minimizing the irradiation of such harmful waves, and various processes for minimizing the irradiation of such harmful waves by employing such shields as well as the above counter units.