Apparatus having a digital infrared sensor

US10453194B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• ARC Devices Limited · IE

Inventors

• Martin Crawley · Belfast, GB
• Michael G. Smith · Austin, US
• Irwin Gross · Boca Raton, US
• Mark Khachaturian · Boca Raton, US
• Steven Gerst · Boca Raton, US
• John Barrett · Cork, IE
• Michael Cronin · West Hollywood, US
• Derek Turnbull · Cork, IE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 10, 2018
• Grant date: Oct 22, 2019
• Expiry date: Sep 10, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06T2210/22
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An apparatus that senses temperature from a digital infrared sensor is described. A digital signal representing a temperature without conversion from analog is transmitted from the digital infrared sensor received by a microprocessor and converted to body core temperature by the microprocessor.