Thermometer having a digital infrared sensor

US9282896B2 · 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: Feb 9, 2015
• Grant date: Mar 15, 2016
• Expiry date: Feb 9, 2035

Classification

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

Abstract

A non-touch thermometer to measure a temperature includes a microprocessor, a battery that is operably coupled to the microprocessor, a single button that is operably coupled to the microprocessor, a digital infrared sensor that is operably coupled to the microprocessor with no analog-to-digital converter operably coupled between the digital infrared sensor and the microprocessor, the digital infrared sensor having only digital readout ports, and a display device that is operably coupled to the microprocessor, wherein the microprocessor is operable to receive from the digital readout ports a digital signal that is representative of a temperature detected by the digital infrared sensor and the microprocessor is operable to determine a body core temperature from the digital signal that is representative of the temperature.