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Electronic clinical thermometer
Assignee: Terumo Corp
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Filing: 1987-11-10
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Granted: 1991-01-22
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Expires: 2007-11-10
Abstract
Abstract An electronic clinical thermometer for predicting a sensed temperature that wil prevail at a future time is equipped with a predetermined predictive functional formula in which values of predetermined coefficient parameters for superimposing the prediction function on a sensed temperature curve are undetermined. Temperature data indicative of sensed body temperature are stored in correlation with elapsed time from the start of measurement, and plural items of the temperature data are read out by a predetermined method as measurement proceeds. By performing regression analysis based on a plurality of the predictive functional formulae, or by solving simultaneous equations constituted by the plurality of predictive functional formulae, in which the sensed temperature data that have been read serve as purposive variables and functions of time data related to the temperature data serve as explicative variables, the values of the coefficient parameters are set. Prediction processing is executed to calculate sensed temperature that will prevail at a future time in accordance with the predictive functional formula specified by the set values of the coefficient parameters.
Inventors
- 👤 Keiji Yamaguchi
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-11-05 08:04
CPC Classifications
G; G01; G01K; G01K7/00; G01K7/42
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 5
Claim 1
Independent Claim
200 words
An electronic clinical thermometer for predicting a sensed temperature that will prevail at a future time, comprising: temperature measurement means for sensing temperature and generating temperature data indicative of the temperature sensed; time signal generating means for measuring elapsed time from start of temperature measurement and generating time data indicative of the measured elapsed time; memory means for storing the sensed temperature data in a manner correlated with the time data that prevailed when the temperature data was sensed; data reading means for reading plural items of temperature data out of the memory means as measurement proceeds; signal analyzing means having a predictive functional formula in which a state of temperature change with respect to elapsed measurement time is stipulated by a power series wherein coefficient parameters are undetermined and time is a variable, values of the coefficient parameters being set by performing regression analysis wherein read temperature data serve as purposive variables and each term of the power series of the time data serves as an explicative variable; and prediction processing means for calculating sensed temperature that will prevail at a future time in accordance with the predictive functional formula specified by the set values of the coefficient parameters.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
200 words
An electronic clinical thermometer for predicting a sensed temperature that will prevail at a future time, comprising: temperature measurement means for sensing temperature and generating temperature data indicative of the temperature sensed; time signal generating means for measuring elapsed time from start of temperature measurement and generating time data indicative of the measured elapsed time; memory means for storing the sensed temperature data in a manner correlated with the time data that prevailed when the temperature data was sensed; data reading means for reading plural items of temperature data out of the memory means as measurement proceeds; signal analyzing means having a predictive functional formula in which a state of temperature change with respect to elapsed measurement time is stipulated by a power series wherein coefficient parameters are undetermined and time is a variable, values of the coefficient parameters being set by performing regression analysis wherein read temperature data serve as purposive variables and each term of the power series of the time data serves as an explicative variable; and prediction processing means for calculating sensed temperature that will prevail at a future time in accordance with the predictive functional formula specified by the set values of the coefficient parameters.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
112 words
The electronic clinical thermometer according to claim 1, wherein said signal analyzing means has the predictive functional formula T.sub.0 (t.sub.i)=A.sub.0 +A.sub.1 /t.sub.i +A.sub.2 /t.sub.i.sup.2 +A3/t.sub.i.sup.3 +. . . +A.sub.n /t.sub.i.sup.n wherein coefficient parameters A0, Al, A2, ..., An are undetermined, and sets the values of the coefficient parameters A 0 , A 1 , A 2 , . . . , A n by performing regression analysis wherein temperature data T 0 (t i ) serves as a purposive variable and functions 1/t i , 1/t.sub. 2 , 1/t i 3 , . . . , 1/t i n of time data t i related to-the temperature data serve as explicative variables.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
90 words
The electronic clinical thermometer according to claim 2, wherein said prediction processing means performs prediction processing by calculating a sensed temperature T p (t c ), which will prevail at a future time t c , in accordance with the following equation: T.sub.p (t.sub.c)=A.sub.0 +A.sub.1 /t.sub.c +A.sub.2 /t.sub.c.sup.2 +A3/t.sub.c.sup.3 +. . . +A.sub.n /t.sub.c.sup.n based on a predictive functional formula specified by the values of the respective coefficient parameters A 0 , A 1 , A 2 , . . . , A n set by the signal analyzing means.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
49 words
The electronic clinical thermometer according to claim 1, wherein said data reading means reads plural items of temperature data in such a manner that the time interval of plural items of temperature data read later is greater than the time interval of plural items of temperature data read previously.
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