Temperature information reader

• US 20050163189A1
• Filed: 09/24/2004
• Published: 07/28/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/20/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Nakazawa, Tsutomu, Sakano, Motoya
• Application Number:
  US10/948,789
• Publication Number:
  US 20050163189A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 374/100
• CPC Class Codes: G01K 1/02 Means for indicating or recording specially adapted for thermometers
• CPC Class Codes: G01K 13/20 Clinical contact thermometers for use with humans or animals

Abstract

In some embodiments, a temperature information reader is used in combination with a temperature measuring pad to be attached to a surface of an object for measuring a temperature of the object. In some examples, the temperature measuring pad receives a radio wave, generates electric power from the received radio wave, measures the temperature of the object, and wirelessly outputs temperature information including the measured temperature and an ID code give to the temperature measuring pad toward the temperature information reader. The temperature information reader includes, e.g., an antenna portion for transmitting the radio wave toward the temperature measuring pad and receiving the temperature information from the temperature measuring pad, a radio wave generating portion for generating the radio wave to be transmitted toward the temperature measuring pad via the antenna portion, a receiving portion for wirelessly receiving the temperature information from the temperature measuring pad via the antenna portion, a storing portion for storing the temperature information, a display portion for displaying at least the measured body temperature, and an external interface for transferring the temperature information stored in the storing portion to an external device.

Claims

1. A temperature information reader to be used in combination with an adhesive clinical thermometer pad to be attached to a skin of a patient for measuring a body temperature of the patient, wherein the clinical thermometer pad receives a radio wave, generates electric power from the received radio wave, measures the body temperature of the patient, and wirelessly outputs temperature information including the measured body temperature and an ID code give to the clinical thermometer pad toward the temperature information reader, the temperature information reader comprising:

at least one antenna portion for transmitting a radio wave toward a thermometer pad and for receiving temperature information from the thermometer pad;

a radio wave generating portion for generating the radio wave to be transmitted toward the thermometer pad via the at least one antenna portion;

a receiving portion for wirelessly receiving the temperature information from the clinical thermometer pad via the at least one antenna portion;

a storing portion for storing the temperature information;

a display portion for displaying at least the measured body temperature; and

an external interface for transferring the temperature information stored in the storing portion to an external computer.

2. The temperature information reader as recited in claim 1, wherein the storing portion is capable of storing the temperature information of a plurality of patients.

3. The temperature information reader as recited in claim 2, wherein the storing portion is a rewritable memory.

4. The temperature information reader as recited in claim 1, further comprising an alarm for making an alarm signal when the measured temperature exceeds a predetermined temperature.

5. The temperature information reader as recited in claim 1, further comprising a rechargeable battery.

6. A temperature information reader to be used in combination with a temperature measuring pad to be attached to a surface of an object for measuring a temperature of the object, wherein the temperature measuring pad receives an electromagnetic wave, generates electric power with the received wave, senses the temperature of the object, and wirelessly outputs the measured temperature and an ID code given to the temperature measuring pad toward the temperature information reader, the temperature information reader comprising:

at least one antenna portion for transmitting the electromagnetic wave toward the temperature measuring pad and for receiving temperature information from a temperature measuring pad;

an electromagnetic wave generating portion for generating an electromagnetic wave to be transmitted toward the temperature measuring pad via the at least one antenna portion;

a receiving portion for wirelessly receiving the temperature information from the temperature measuring pad via the at least one antenna portion;

a storing portion for storing the temperature information;

a display portion for displaying at least the measured body temperature; and

an external interface for transferring the temperature information stored in the storing portion to an external device.

7. The temperature information reader as recited in claim 6, wherein the external device is a computer.

8. The temperature information reader as recited in claim 6, wherein the storing portion is capable of storing the temperature information of a plurality of objects.

9. The temperature information reader as recited in claim 8, wherein the storing portion is a rewritable memory.

10. The temperature information reader as recited in claim 6, further comprising an alarm for making an alarm signal when the measured temperature exceeds a predetermined temperature.

11. The temperature information reader as recited in claim 6, further comprising a rechargeable battery.

12. The temperature information reader as recited in claim 6, wherein the external device is a personal computer.

13. The temperature information reader as recited in claim 6, further comprising an alarm for making an alarm signal when the measured temperature exceeds a predetermined temperature and a rechargeable battery, wherein the external device is a computer, and wherein the storing portion is a rewritable memory capable of storing the temperature information of a plurality of objects.

14. A temperature information reader to be used in combination with a temperature measuring pad to be attached to a surface of an object for measuring a temperature of the object, wherein the temperature measuring pad measures the temperature of the object, and wirelessly outputs temperature information including the measured temperature and an ID code given to the temperature measuring pad toward the temperature information reader, the temperature information reader, comprising:

a receiving portion for wirelessly receiving the temperature information from the temperature measuring pad via the receiving portion;

a storing portion for storing the temperature information;

a display portion for displaying at least the measured body temperature; and

an external interface for transferring the temperature information stored in the storing portion to an external device.

15. The temperature information reader as recited in claim 14, wherein the external device is a computer.

16. The temperature information reader as recited in claim 14, wherein the storing portion is capable of storing the temperature information of a plurality of objects.

18. The temperature information reader as recited in claim 14, further comprising an alarm for making an alarm signal when the measured temperature exceeds a predetermined temperature.

19. The temperature information reader as recited in claim 14, further comprising a rechargeable battery.

20. The temperature information reader as recited in claim 14, further comprising an alarm for making an alarm signal when the measured temperature exceeds a predetermined temperature and a rechargeable battery, wherein the external device is a computer, and wherein the storing portion is a rewritable memory capable of storing the temperature information of a plurality of objects.

17. The temperature information reader as recited in claim 17, wherein the storing portion is a rewritable memory.