Multiusage thermometer

• US 5,575,563 A
• Filed: 05/24/1994
• Issued: 11/19/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 07/15/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Job Chiu, Kai-Tang Chung
• Original Assignee: Job Chiu, Kai-Tang Chung
• Inventors: Chung, Kai-Tang, Chiu, Job
• Primary Examiner(s): GUTIERREZ, DIEGO F
• Application Number:
  US08/248,436
• Time in Patent Office: 910 Days
• Field of Search: 374/157, 374/208, 374/156, 374/150, 374/141, 374/178, 439/913, D 7/643
• US Class Current: 374/141
• CPC Class Codes: G01K 1/14 Supports; Fastening devices; Arrangements for mounting thermometers in particular locations

Abstract

A multiusage thermometer comprises a body portion capable of selectively detachably engaging thereto at least a first sensing portion, a second sensing portion, a third sensing portion and a fourth sensing portion each of said sensing portions having a first engaging member at a first end thereof, said body portion integrally forming a second engaging member at one end thereof for electrically and complementarily connecting thereto said first engaging member of each of said sensing portions. This invention offers a thermometer being multiusable and having a body portion capable of being selectively detachably engaged with other sensing portions of various usages based on the situation one faces.

Claims

1. A multiusage thermometer comprising a body portion capable of selectively detachably engaging thereto at least a first sensing portion, a second sensing portion, a third sensing portion and a fourth sensing portion, each of said sensing portions having a first engaging member at a first end thereof, said body portion integrally forming a second engaging member at one end thereof for electrically and complementarily connecting thereto said first engaging member of each of said sensing portions, said fourth sensing portion having a generally bottomed tube structure having an interior therein for accommodating a container filled with contents, and having a sensing cap mounted on one side of said bottomed tube structure for contacting said container to obtain a temperature of said contents.

2. A multiusage thermometer as claimed in claim 1 wherein said first sensing portion has a tube structure having a sensing cap at a second end thereof for contacting with an object to thus obtain a temperature of said object which is displayed on said body portion.

3. A multiusage thermometer as claimed in claim 2 wherein said first sensing portion further comprises a temperature sensing diode electrically connected to said sensing cap for responding to said temperature of said object and incurring a voltage drop thereacross representing a relative temperature of said object.

4. A multiusage thermometer as claimed in claim 1 wherein said second sensing portion has a spoon structure having a spoon at a second end thereof, a sensing cap being installed at a center of said spoon for contacting with contents in said spoon to thus obtain a temperature of said contents which is displayed on said body portion.

5. A multiusage thermometer as claimed in claim 4 wherein said second sensing portion further comprises a temperature sensing diode electrically connected to said sensing cap for responding to contents in said spoon and incurring a voltage drop thereacross representing a relative temperature of said contents of said spoon.

6. A multiusage thermometer as claimed in claim 1 wherein said first engaging member is a plug and said second engaging member is a corresponding socket.

7. A multiusage thermometer as claimed in claim 1 wherein said third sensing portion has a generally hollow annular structure having a sensing cap generally positioned at a geometric center of said annular structure for contacting with an object to obtain a temperature of said object.

8. A multiusage thermometer as claimed in claim 1 wherein said third sensing portion is generally of a flying saucer structure having a sensing cap generally positioned at a geometric center of said saucer structure for contacting with an object to obtain a temperature of said object.