Omron Healthcare Company Ltd.

Atsuko Fukui

Katsuyoshi Morita

Yoshihide Onishi

Masaki Tomioka

Daisuke Ishihara

Hiroshi Hiramatsu

Takashi Shigeno

Kazuya Andachi

Masahiko Yumoto

Yasuo Fujita

Yoshihito Nakanishi

Takuto Serizawa

An electronic thermometer includes a hollow probe provided at its longitudinal tip with a temperature measuring unit having a temperature sensor for sensing a temperature, electrodes neighboring to the temperature sensor and arranged in the hollow of the probe, and a determining unit for determining whether temperature measuring unit is in appropriate contact with a measurement target portion of a user or not, based on a change in electrostatic capacity sensed using the electrodes.

Electronic thermometer

An electronic thermometer has a probe having a temperature measuring unit at its end, a temperature sensor arranged in the temperature measuring unit of the probe, a contact sensor arranged in a position shifter from the temperature measuring unit of the probe toward a thermometer body, a determining unit for determining whether a state of contact between the temperature measuring unit and a measurement target portion of a user is good or not, based on outputs of both the temperature sensor and the contact sensor, and a notifying unit for providing a notification according to a result of the determination by the determining unit.

Growing community of inventors

Ashiya, Japan

Atsuko Fukui