Method and assembly for a wireless probe and interrogator
AssigneePreston Industries, Inc.
InventorsPhilip Preston, Walter Raczynski, Charles Zimmicki
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Abstract
A method and system for the wireless interrogation of a body immersed in a circulatory bath or a tank for heating. More specifically, the system may include a probe having multiple sensors for gauging a core temperature associated with the immersed body in combination with one or more wireless connections leading to a controller (on a circulator or a user interface) such that the user can determine temperature information (e.g., core temperature) of the body being immersed.
Claims4
A probe assembly for providing body temperature data to a remote interrogator outside of a bath containing the body, the probe assembly comprising:
- a rigid member having a first end, a second end, and a shaft extending therebetween;
- a first sensor at the first end for providing temperature data related to the interior of the body;
- a second sensor at the second end for providing temperature data related to the body;
- a radio frequency transmitter at the second end of the rigid member for providing temperature data to a remote interrogator through the bath;
- a chip on the second end for receiving temperature data from the first sensor and the second sensor, the chip storing said temperature data to provide to the transmitter;
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- a light harvester on the second end for receiving power for the chip and the light transmitter.
A probe assembly for providing temperature data corresponding to surface and interior temperatures for a body residing in a bath, and for enabling temperature data to be transmitted to remote interrogator, the probe assembly comprising:
- a) a rigid member comprising a first end and a second end, and a shaft extending there between, the first end to be inserted into the body and the second end being outside the body;
- b) a first sensor at the first end for receiving temperature data corresponding to the interior of the body;
- c) a second sensor at the second end for receiving temperature data corresponding to the surface of the body;
- d) an LED transmitter at the second end for relaying temperature data received from the first sensor and the second sensor;
- e) a chip on the second end for receiving temperature data from the first sensor and the second sensor, the chip storing said temperature data to provide to the transmitter;
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- f) a light harvester on the second end for receiving power for the chip and the light transmitter from an emitter on the remote interrogator or from ambient illumination.
A probe and interrogator assembly for monitoring temperature data of at least the interior of a body in a bath, the assembly comprising:
- a) an interrogator comprising:
- i) a controller;
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- ii) a transceiver, the transceiver including an antenna for receiving a signal from a probe assembly;
- b) a probe assembly for providing body temperature data to a remote interrogator outside of a bath containing the body, the probe assembly comprising:
- i) a rigid member having a first end, a second end, and a shaft extending therebetween,
- ii) a first sensor at the first end for providing temperature data related to the interior of the body;
- iii) a radio frequency transmitter at the second end for relaying temperature data received by the first sensor and the second sensor;
- iv) A chip on the second end for receiving temperature data from the first sensor and the second sensor, the chip storing said temperature data to provide to the light transmitter;
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- v) a light harvester on the second end for receiving power for the chip and the light transmitter.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.