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Tympanic thermometer with modular sensing probe

  • US 6,186,959 B1
  • Filed: 03/12/1999
  • Issued: 02/13/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/03/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An ear thermometer for developing a temperature measurement signal based on at least partial insertion of a probe into the outer ear of a subject, comprising:

  • a housing;

    a probe being mechanically coupled to said housing and displaceable between at least first and second positions relative to said housing, the probe including an infrared sensor that develops a temperature measurement signal; and

    a Hall Effect sensor disposed on at least one of said housing and said probe, said Hall Effect sensor, in use, measuring the quantity of pressure exerted by said probe onto the outer ear of the subject as the probe is moving relative to said housing.

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