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.
Claims13
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 external infrared radiation quantity which enters 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,
- control means for controlling said computation expression according to said taken data corresponding to the infrared transmission quantity, and
- a probe cover for detachably covering said probe, wherein said control means includes means for determining the type of probe cover and said control means determines the infrared transmission quantity corresponding to said probe cover,
- wherein said infrared transmission data reading means includes a plurality of infrared radiation transmission quantities set beforehand, and said control means controls the computation expression according to the infrared radiation quantity selected by an external operation means.
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 external infrared radiation quantity which enters 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,
- control means for controlling said computation expression according to said taken data corresponding to the infrared transmission quantity, and
- a probe cover, wherein said probe cover includes data setting means disposed thereon as to an infrared transmission quantity, in which data of said infrared transmission quantity is taken by said infrared transmission data reading means and said control means controls the computation expression according to the taken data of infrared transmission quantity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.