Temperature sensor label

• US 7,063,041 B2
• Filed: 12/16/2004
• Issued: 06/20/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/15/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kabushikigaisha Gee Quest
• Original Assignee: Kabushikigaisha Gee Quest
• Inventors: Odashiro, Ken
• Primary Examiner(s): SMITH, RICHARD A
• Application Number:
  US11/014,591
• Publication Number:
  US 20060011124A1
• Time in Patent Office: 551 Days
• Field of Search: 116/217, 116/219, 116/216, 116/207, 374/106, 374/160, 374/161, 374/162
• US Class Current: 116/217
• CPC Class Codes: G01K 1/02 Means for indicating or recording specially adapted for thermometers
• CPC Class Codes: G01K 11/06 using melting, freezing, or softening
• CPC Class Codes: G01K 11/12 using changes in colour, translucency or reflectance

Abstract

A temperature sensitive piece 9 has a waxed layer 7 formed on a colored face 4 of a colored paper 6 having an arbitrary plane shape. The waxed layer 7 is formed of a mixture of a proper amount of viscous material and powdered petroleum wax melting at selectively preset temperature. The temperature sensitive piece 9 is affixed to a sheet-shaped base 1 with the waxed layer 7 being located close to the front face of the temperature sensor label. The entire face of the base 1 facing the front face of the temperature sensor label is covered with a transparent film 5.

Claims

1. A temperature sensor label comprising:

a temperature sensitive piece having a waxed layer formed on a colored face of a colored paper having an arbitrary plane shape, the waxed layer being formed of a mixture of a proper amount of viscous material and powdered petroleum wax which melts at a selectively preset temperature, the temperature sensitive piece being affixed to a sheet-shaped base with the waxed layer being located close to the front face of the temperature sensor label, and then the entire face of the base facing the front face of the temperature sensor label being covered with a transparent film.

2. A method for manufacturing a temperature sensor label comprising:

a wax mixture is provided that has a proper amount of viscous material, a proper amount of solvent, and powdered petroleum wax which melts at a selectively preset temperature, the wax mixture is coated on a colored face of a colored base paper to form a waxed layer which is opaque due to said petroleum wax being powdered and is translucent or transparent after the powdered petroleum wax is melted into a melted form or resolidified into an unpowdered solid form, the waxed layer is stamped into an arbitrary plane shape to form temperature sensitive piece, then the temperature sensitive piece is affixed to a sheet-shaped base with the waxed layer being located close to the front face of the temperature sensor label, and then the entire face of the base facing the front face of the temperature sensor label is covered with a transparent film.

3. A temperature sensor label comprising:

a colored paper having a colored face;

a temperature sensitive waxed layer formed on the colored face, the waxed layer being formed of a mixture of an effective amount of viscous material and powdered petroleum wax, the powdered petroleum wax having a predetermined melting temperature and being opaque while in powdered form wherein said opaqueness is due to said powdered form, wherein the colored paper and the waxed layer define a temperature sensitive piece with the petroleum wax being translucent or transparent and the colored face being visible after melting of the powdered petroleum wax;

a sheet-shaped base, the temperature sensitive piece being affixed to the base with the waxed layer being disposed adjacent a front face of the temperature sensor label; and

a transparent film covering a face of the base at the front face of the temperature sensor label.

4. The temperature sensor label of claim 3, wherein the temperature sensitive waxed layer resists evaporation at high temperature.

5. The temperature sensor label of claim 3, wherein the temperature sensitive waxed layer resists separation from the colored face upon exposure to water.

6. The temperature sensor label of claim 3, wherein opaqueness of the powdered petroleum wax defines a color different from that of said colored face.

7. The temperature sensor label of claim 3, wherein the petroleum wax is translucent or transparent when in a melted form.

8. The temperature sensor label of claim 7, wherein the petroleum wax is in an unpowdered solid form when becoming solid after melting and defines a translucent or transparent wax layer overlying the colored face when in said unpowdered solid form.