Device to display skin temperature changes by changes in color

• US 3,951,133 A
• Filed: 09/12/1974
• Issued: 04/20/1976
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/1974
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: John P. Reese
• Original Assignee: John P. Reese
• Inventors: Reese, John P.
• Primary Examiner(s): Howell, Kyle L.
• Application Number:
  US05/505,357
• Time in Patent Office: 586 Days
• Field of Search: 128/2 H, 73/356, 23/230 LC
• US Class Current: 600/549
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 10/00 Other methods or instruments for diagnosis, e.g. instruments for taking a cell sample, for biopsy, for vaccination diagnosis vaccination prophylaxis, vaccination therapy A61B17/20; Sex determination; Ovulation-period determination menstruation tables G06C3/00; Throat striking implements
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/0276 comprising a thermosensitive compound
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/015 By temperature mapping of body part
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6826 Finger
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6838 Clamps or clips

Abstract

Two or more sheets of liquid crystal thermal film assembled side by side, one surface of which assembly is covered by a flat piece of temperature equalizing material made of high thermal conductivity material, such as tin-foil, which film sheets change color in response to changes in the skin temperature of a person on whom my device is attached. At opposite sides of the sheets are two retaining strips of material to wrap around a finger, that can be fastened together or unfastened as desired.

Claims

1. A device that displays skin temperature changes and that is worn by a person about a finger or toe, said device comprising:

a plurality of relatively thin color-changing liquid crystal thermal film sheets,

a first of said film sheets being color responsive to changes in the temperature of the skin of the person between a limited range of temperatures of the skin, a second of said film sheets being responsive to changes in the temperature of the skin of the person between a second limited range of temperatures of the skin that is higher than said first range of temperatures and a third of said film sheets being responsive to changes in the skin temperature of a person at a temperature higher than said second range of temperatures,

a relatively thin metal heat conductor sheet,

means for attaching a face surface of said film sheets to the conductor sheet with the three film sheets being disposed abutting each other, extending substantially parallel to each other and each being of somewhat elongate rectangular shape substantially totally covering the conductor sheet with said first, second and third film sheets being disposed in successive order, said film sheets changing color substantially mutually exclusively and in a reversible manner with the total area covered by all sheets being about the same as the area covered by the conductor sheet,

and retaining means attached to the assembly of film sheets and conductor sheet to hold the conductor sheet to the surface of the skin of the person,

said retaining means including two separate retainer strips and means for securing the strips respectively, to opposite relative thin borders of the assembly wherein the borders are each defined by successive ends of the film sheets with each retainer strip being slightly overlapped with each such border of the film sheets,

wherein said retainer strips attached to a side of said film sheets opposite to said conductor sheet.