US 8,275,566 B2Granted

Measuring apparatus and measuring method

AssigneeT&D Corporation

InventorsKanato Kobayashi, Takeshi Tsukanaka

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Abstract

An apparatus including a recording switch for recording a temperature of an object; a judging unit that measures the temperature of the object using a sensor at intervals and judges whether a difference in temperatures measured at the intervals is within a range of a pre-set value; a first acquisition unit that records and/or outputs, when a switch-on of the recording switch is detected and the difference in temperatures is within the range of the pre-set value, information including a first temperature measured using the sensor and has become valid by the switch-on of the recording switch; and a second acquisition unit that records and/or outputs, when the switch-on is detected and the difference in temperatures is outside the range information including a second temperature measured using the sensor and becomes valid when the difference in temperatures falls within the range after the switch-on is detected.

Claims10

Dependent claims

A hand held apparatus comprising:

a recording switch for recording a temperature of a target object;
a judging unit that measures the temperature of the target object using a sensor at intervals of a first period and judges whether a difference in temperatures measured at the intervals is within a range of a pre-set value;
a first acquisition unit that records and/or outputs, when a switch-on of the recording switch is detected and the difference in temperatures is within the range of the pre-set value, temperature information including a first temperature that is measured using the sensor and has become valid by the switch-on of the recording switch:
a second acquisition unit that records and/or outputs, when the switch-on of the recording switch is detected and the difference in temperatures is outside the range of the pre-set value, temperature information including a second temperature that is measured using the sensor and has become valid when the difference in temperatures falls within the range of the pre-set value after the switch-on of the recording switch is detected;
and
a display,
wherein the first acquisition unit displays, when the switch-on of the recording switch is detected, the first temperature on the display as a recorded temperature, and
the second acquisition unit displays, when the switch-on of the recording switch is detected, a message showing the apparatus is awaiting temperature convergence and displays, when the second temperature is acquired, the second temperature on the display unit as a recorded temperature.

5 more elements

A method of measuring temperature comprising:

measuring a target object using an apparatus with a recording switch for recording the temperature of the target object via a sensor at intervals of a first period and judging whether a difference in temperatures measured at the intervals is within a range of a pre-set value;
recording and/or outputting temperature information, by switch-on of the recording switch, including a first temperature that is measured via the sensor and has become valid by the switch-on of the recording switch, if the difference in temperatures is within the range of the pre-set value when the apparatus detects the switch-on of the recording switch;
and
recording and/or outputting temperature information, by the switch-on of the recording switch and if the difference in temperatures is outside the range of the pre-set value when the apparatus detects the switch-on of the recording switch, including a second temperature that is measured via the sensor and has become valid when the difference in temperatures falls within the range of the pre-set value after the apparatus detects the switch-on of the recording switch,
wherein recording and/or outputting the temperature information including the first temperature includes displaying, when the apparatus detects the switch-on of the recording switch, the first temperature on a display as a recorded temperature, and
the recording and/or outputting the temperature information including the second temperature includes displaying, when the apparatus detects the switch-on of the recording switch, a message showing that temperature convergence is awaited on the display and displaying, when the second temperature is acquired, the second temperature on the display as a recorded temperature.

3 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.