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Foot temperature and health monitoring system

  • US 6,767,330 B2
  • Filed: 12/20/2001
  • Issued: 07/27/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/25/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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  • An apparatus for monitoring the temperature of the plantar aspects of the foot of a human being, said device comprising;

    a grid having a plurality of holes therein at predetermined locations;

    a movable array of light sensors and skin temperature sensors;

    said movable array of light sensors and skin temperature sensors constructed and arranged to travel under said grid and produce signals representative of the location of the feet and the skin temperatures on the plantar aspects of feet through said holes in said grid;

    computer means for receiving said signals representative of the location of the feet and the skin temperatures on the plantar aspects of the feet;

    said computer means constructed and arranged to both determine the position of the feet with respect to said holes in said grid using said signals representative of the location of the feet and the temperatures on the plantar aspects of the feet and selecting and recording sensed skin temperatures from certain of such holes; and

    means for displaying an output of said recorded skin temperatures.”

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