Electronic thermometer
AssigneeOMRON Corporation
InventorHIROYUKI OTA
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Abstract
An electronic thermometer including a probe to be inserted in to a portion of an outer ear to be measured by the thermometer, an infrared quantity detection means for detecting an infrared radiation quantity which is entered through the probe, a temperature computation means for applying the detected infrared radiation quantity in a predetermined computation expression to compute out a temperature such as body temperature, an infrared transmission data reading means for taking data corresponding to an infrared transmission quantity passing through the probe, and a control means for controlling the computation expression according to the taken data corresponding to the infrared transmission quantity.
Claims12
An electronic thermometer comprising
- a probe to be inserted in to a portion to be measured by the thermometer,
- infrared quantity detection means for detecting an infrared radiation quantity which is entered through said probe,
- temperature computation means for applying the detected infrared radiation quantity in a predetermined computation expression to compute temperature,
- infrared transmission data reading means for taking data corresponding to an infrared transmission quantity passing through said probe, and
- control means for controlling said computation expression according to said taken data corresponding to the infrared transmission quantity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.