Ergonomic hand-held thermometer
AssigneeMedism, Ltd.
InventorMoshe Yarden
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Abstract
A thermometer useful for measuring the temperature of a patient, the thermometer including a housing, at least one temperature sensor assembly including a plurality of external patient skin contacting surfaces, and a mounting element for mounting the at least one temperature sensor assembly on the housing and being operative for mutually independently mounting each of the plurality of external patient skin contacting surfaces to be independently arrangeable in a spatial orientation which may be independently different from the spatial orientation of the external patient skin contacting surface of each other of the plurality of external patient skin contacting surfaces.
Claims83
A thermometer useful for measuring the temperature of a patient, the thermometer comprising:
- a housing;
- at least one temperature sensor assembly including a plurality of external patient skin contacting surfaces;
- and
- a mounting element for mounting said at least one temperature sensor assembly on said housing and being operative for mutually independently mounting each of said plurality of external patient skin contacting surfaces to be independently arrangeable in a spatial orientation which may be independently different from the spatial orientation of the external patient skin contacting surface of each other of said plurality of external patient skin contacting surfaces.
A thermometer useful for measuring the temperature of a patient, the thermometer comprising:
- a user appendage mountable housing;
- at least one temperature sensor assembly including a plurality of external patient skin contacting surfaces;
- and
- a mounting element for mounting said plurality of external patient skin contacting surfaces, said mounting element being flexible in response to flexing of an appendage onto which said housing is mounted.
A thermometer useful for measuring the temperature of a patient, the thermometer comprising:
- a user appendage mountable housing including:
- a patient body surface engagement and temperature sensing portion arranged to be facing in a first direction away from said user appendage;
- and
- a user interface and temperature display portion arranged to be facing away from said user appendage in a second direction, generally opposite to said first direction;
- and
- an at least partially closed ring portion supporting said body surface engagement and temperature sensing portion and said user interface and temperature display portion for mounting onto an appendage of a user.
A thermometer useful for measuring the temperature of a patient, the thermometer comprising:
- a user appendage mountable housing;
- at least one temperature sensor assembly including a plurality of external patient skin contacting surfaces;
- and
- a mounting element for mounting said at least one temperature sensor assembly on said housing and being operative for mutually independently mounting each of said plurality of external patient skin contacting surfaces responsively to the configuration of both the patient skin contacting surface and the user's appendage.
A thermometer useful for measuring the temperature of a patient, the thermometer comprising:
- a user appendage mountable housing;
- at least one temperature sensor assembly including at least one external patient skin contacting surface thermally connected to at least one temperature detector in a manner that the temperature sensed at said at least one temperature detector generally represents an average of temperatures at said at least one external patient skin contacting surface;
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- a mounting element for mounting said at least one temperature sensor assembly on said housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.