Touch free tympanic thermometer
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1. Method for obtaining the temperature of the tympanic membrane comprising passing heated air of a temperature close to tympanic temperature onto a tympanic membrane, whence it returns with the temperature of that membrane, returning said air through a separated path from said heated air, measuring the temperature of the air in said separated path.
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A thermometer system for blowing heated air having a temperature value close to the temperature value of body temperature directly onto the tympanic membrane from tubing apparatus, and measuring the temperature of the air as it returns from the membrane, the air having membrane temperature.
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- 1. Method for obtaining the temperature of the tympanic membrane comprising passing heated air of a temperature close to tympanic temperature onto a tympanic membrane, whence it returns with the temperature of that membrane, returning said air through a separated path from said heated air, measuring the temperature of the air in said separated path.
- 4. A touch-free tympanic thermometer comprising a tube passing heated air of a temperature close to tympanic temperature onto a tympanic membrane and from a thermoelectric probing tube, and means measuring the temperature of the air returning outside the tubing yet while inside the ear canal.
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