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Electronic measurement system
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Inventors: Georgi, Heinz W.;
Assignee: IVAC Corporation (San Diego, CA)
Primary Examiner: Grimm; Siegfried H.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Fulwider, Patton, Rieber, Lee & Utecht
An electronic method and apparatus for measuring temperatures by means of a thermistor in one arm of an electrical bridge, bridge output being varied by the on and off duty cycle of a shunting impedance selectively switched into and out of the balancing arm of the bridge in accordance with the relative states of a counting display register and a cyclically scanned counting register, the display register state being altered by gated pulses, under the control of bridge output, to provide a digital indication of measured temperature. Bridges of both the nulling and non-nulling types are disclosed using either a dual ramp integrator or conventional detector acting upon bridge output to provide an impedance measurement subsystem independent of reference supply voltage and also enabling non-linear analog to digital conversion to compensate for a non-linear thermistor temperature vs. thermistor resistance characteristics, without sacrificing measurement sensitivity. Anticipation circuitry is provided for monitoring and correlating the display register pulses with the time vs. temperature response characteristic of the thermistor, to selectively alter bridge balance and display register state so as to provide an advance indication of the anticipated temperature at which the termistor will finally stabilize. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION I claim: 1.
Measurement apparatus, comprising: switch means having ON and OFF states; first counter means; means for cyclically counting said first counter means; second counter means; means for comparing the output signals of said first and said second counter means and conditioning said switch means to one of its ON or OFF states in response to preselected relative states of said first counter means and said second counter means; means responsive to a preselected state of said first counter means to condition said switch to the other of its ON or OFF states; and a bridge network, wherein the state of balance of said bridge network is controlled by said switch means.
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In a measurement system wherein electrical pulses represent a changing condition being monitored during a measurement cycle, the combination comprising: first means for monitoring said pulses; second means responsive to a prescribed sequence of pulse conditions to terminate said measurement cycle; third means for monitoring the elapsed time in the measurement cycle; and fourth means for varying said prescribed sequence of pulse conditions as a function of elapsed time.
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A combination as set forth in claim 2, wherein said second means is responsive to a successive sequence of at least two pulse periods of prescribed magnitudes.
Description:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION This invention relates generally to improvements in measurement methods and apparatus and, more particularly, to a new and improved electronic thermometer system enabling very rapid, accurate, reliable and easily read temperature measurements.
It is common practice in the medical arts, as in hospitals and in doctors' offices, to measure the body temperature of a patient by means of a glass bulb thermometer incorporating a heat responsive mercury column which expands and contracts a calibrated temperature scale.
Typically, the glass thermometer is inserted into the patient, either orally or rectally, and subsequently removed after a sufficient time interval has passed to enable the temperature of the thermometer to stabilize at the body temperature of the patient
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