Patent ID: 7919960
Filing Date: 2011-04-05
Classification: G01R

Abstract:
1. An electricity meter comprising: a meter housing; a measurement part physically accommodated in the meter housing and including a detection unit which detects electricity consumption of an objective system, and a transmission unit which wirelessly transmits data representative of the detected electricity consumption; an operation part physically accommodated in the meter housing, adjacent to the measurement part, and including a reception unit which receives the wirelessly transmitted data and an operation unit which processes the received data into data representative of electric energy consumed by the objective system; and an insulation part physically accommodated in the meter housing and formed between the measurement part and the operation part in order to electrically insulate the measurement part and operation part from each other, wherein the measurement part and the operation part are mounted on a single printed board accommodated in the meter housing, and the data transmitted from the transmission unit of the measurement part is in the form of a radio signal.