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US 6,957,911 B2Granted
Infant thermometer
AssigneeCosco Management, Inc.
InventorsAnthony Wong, Jerome V. Tomaselli
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Abstract
An infant thermometer assembly includes a cover portion and a thermometer portion pivotably coupled to the cover portion and pivotably movable relative to the cover portion about a pivot axis between a use position and a stowed position. The thermometer portion includes a probe and a housing coupled to the probe. The housing includes a display screen and a power button. The cover portion includes a cavity formed to receive at least a portion of the housing of the thermometer portion in the use and stowed positions and a cut-out formed to receive the probe of the thermometer portion in the stowed position.
Claims30
An infant thermometer assembly comprising a thermometer portion including a probe having a flexible tip portion and a housing coupled to the probe and a cover portion pivotably, fixedly and slidably coupled to the thermometer portion, the cover portion defining a cavity formed to receive at least a portion of the thermometer portion in a use position and a stowed position of the thermometer portion and defining a cut-out formed to receive the probe of the thermometer portion in the stowed position.
An infant thermometer assembly comprising
- a thermometer portion including a probe having a flexible tip portion and a housing coupled to the probe,
- a cover portion coupled to the thermometer portion, and
- means for mounting the thermometer portion to the cover portion for sliding movement of the thermometer portion relative to the cover portion while the cover portion remains coupled to the thermometer portion between a locked position to prevent the thermometer portion from pivoting relative to the cover portion and an unlocked position to permit the thermometer portion to pivot relative to the cover portion about a pivot axis to assume a use position wherein the probe is removed from a stowed position inside the cover portion.
An infant thermometer assembly comprising
- a cover portion and
- a thermometer portion pivotably and slidably coupled to the cover portion and formed to include a probe and a housing coupled to the probe, the housing including a display and a power button, the thermometer portion being pivotably movable relative to the cover portion about a pivot axis and slidably movable relative to the cover portion along a longitudinal axis extending along the probe between a use position and a stowed position, the cover portion including a cavity formed to receive at least a portion of the housing when the probe is in the use and stowed positions and a cut-out formed to receive the probe of the thermometer portion in the stowed position.
An infant thermometer assembly comprising
- a cover portion and
- a thermometer portion pivotably coupled to the cover portion and formed to include a probe and a housing coupled to the probe, the housing including a display and a power button, the thermometer portion being pivotably movable relative to the cover portion about a pivot axis between a use position and a stowed position, the cover portion including a cavity formed to receive at least a portion of the housing of the thermometer portion in the use and stowed positions and a cut-out formed to receive the probe of the thermometer portion in the stowed position, wherein the thermometer portion includes a guide tab coupled to the housing and the cover portion includes a guide slot formed therein to receive the guide tab in the use position.
An infant thermometer assembly comprising
- a cover portion and
- a thermometer portion pivotably coupled to the cover portion and formed to include a probe and a housing coupled to the probe, the housing including a display and a power button, the thermometer portion being pivotably movable relative to the cover portion about a pivot axis between a use position and a stowed position, the cover portion including a cavity formed to receive at least a portion of the housing of the thermometer portion in the use and stowed positions and a cut-out formed to receive the probe of the thermometer portion in the stowed position, wherein the cover portion includes a body, a first arm appended to the body, and a second arm appended to the body, the first and second arms being spaced-apart from each other to define the cavity of the cover portion, and wherein the arms of the body are coupled to the housing of the thermometer portion.
An infant thermometer assembly comprising
- a cover portion and
- a thermometer portion pivotably coupled to the cover portion and formed to include a probe and a housing coupled to the probe, the housing including a display and a power button, the thermometer portion being pivotably movable relative to the cover portion about a pivot axis between a use position and a stowed position, the cover portion including a cavity formed to receive at least a portion of the housing of the thermometer portion in the use and stowed positions and a cut-out formed to receive the probe of the thermometer portion in the stowed position, wherein the thermometer portion includes a locking lug coupled to the housing of the thermometer portion and the cover portion includes a slot formed to receive a portion of the locking lug therethrough and formed to define a first end, a second end, and a neck near the second end, and wherein the thermometer portion is movable between a locked position where the locking lug is positioned between the neck and the second end and an unlocked position where the locking lug is positioned between the neck and the first end, and wherein the thermometer portion is pivotably movable relative to the cover portion when the thermometer portion is in the unlocked position.
An infant thermometer assembly comprising
- a thermometer portion including a probe and a housing coupled to the probe,
- a cover portion coupled to the thermometer portion, and
- means for mounting the thermometer portion to the cover portion for movement of the thermometer portion relative to the cover portion between a locked position to prevent the thermometer portion from moving relative to the cover portion and an unlocked position to permit the thermometer portion to move relative to the cover portion, wherein the mounting means includes a locking lug coupled to the housing and a slot of the cover portion formed to receive a portion of the locking lug therethrough, and the slot is formed to define a first end, a second end, and a neck portion, and wherein the locking lug is positioned between the neck portion and the second end of the slot when the thermometer portion is in the locked position and the locking lug is positioned between the neck portion and the first end when the thermometer portion is in the unlocked position.
An infant thermometer assembly comprising
- a thermometer portion including a probe and a housing coupled to the probe,
- a cover portion coupled to the thermometer portion, and
- means for mounting the thermometer portion to the cover portion for movement of the thermometer portion relative to the cover portion between a locked position to prevent the thermometer portion from moving relative to the cover portion and an unlocked position to permit the thermometer portion to move relative to the cover portion, wherein the thermometer portion includes a first guide tab coupled to the housing and a second guide tab coupled to the housing, the cover portion includes a first guide slot, a second guide slot, a first notch, and a second notch, and wherein the first guide slot receives a portion of the first guide tab and the second guide slot receives a portion of the second guide tab in the use position and the first notch receives a portion of the first guide tab and the second notch receives a portion of the second guide tab in the stowed position and wherein the cover portion includes a front wall and a rear wall coupled to the front wall and formed to define a cut-out, the thermometer portion is pivotably movable relative to the cover portion between a use position where the probe of the thermometer portion extends away from the cover portion and a stowed position where the probe of the thermometer portion is received within the cut-out of the cover portion.
An infant thermometer assembly comprising
- a cover portion including a body formed to include a probe receiver and first and second arms coupled to the body and arranged to lie in spaced-apart relation to one another to define a probe carrier receiver therebetween, each arm being formed to include a lug-receiving slot and a narrowed neck portion extending into the slot to partition the lug-receiving slot to form an unlocking zone located between the narrowed neck portion and a distal end of said arm and a locking zone located between the unlocking zone and the body of the cover portion, and
- a thermometer portion including a probe sized to fit into the probe receiver formed in the body and a probe carrier coupled to the probe and sized to fit into the probe carrier receiver defined between the first and second arms of the cover portion, the probe carrier including a first locking lug extending outwardly into the lug-receiving slot formed in the first arm and a second locking lug extending outwardly into the slot formed in the second arm, the locking lugs being configured to move back and forth in the slots between extended positions in the unlocking zones of the lug-receiving slots wherein the thermometer portion is free to pivot about a pivot axis extending through the first and second locking lugs to allow the probe to be withdrawn from the probe receiver formed in the body of the cover portion and rotated through an angle of 180° to assume a position apart from the probe receiver and a retracted position in the locking zones of the lug-receiving slots wherein the probe is one of stowed in the probe receiver formed in the body of the cover portion and placed in a temperature-taking position outside of the probe receiver.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.