Disposable speculum to cover the probe end of a tympanic thermometer

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Patent Grant
D303008

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Patent Number
D303,008
Date Filed
Tuesday, September 2, 1986
38 years ago
Date Issued
Tuesday, August 22, 1989
35 years ago

Inventors
- David B. Phillips
- Gary J. O'Hara
Original Assignees
- Intelligent Medical Systems, Inc.
Examiners
- Burke; Wallace R.
- Reid; Stella M.
Agents
- Baker, Maxham, Jester & Meador

US Classifications
- D24 - Medical and laboratory equipment
Field of Search
- US
- D24 18
- 128 9
- 128 3
- 128 4
- 128 6
- 128 664
- 128 736
- D03 29
- Term of Grant
  14Years

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Abstract

Description

Claims

The ornamental design for a disposable speculum to cover the probe end of a tympanic thermometer, as shown.

US Referenced Citations (15)

Number	Name	Date	Kind
D218850	Sato	Sep 1970
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3581570	Wortz	Jun 1971
3681991	Eberly, Jr.	Aug 1972
3738172	Sato	Jun 1973
3840004	Heine	Oct 1974
3878836	Twentier	Apr 1975
3934578	Heine	Jan 1976
3942891	Spielberger et al.	Mar 1976
4380998	Kieffer, III et al.	Apr 1983
4662360	O'Hara	May 1987

Non-Patent Literature Citations (1)

Entry
"Noncontact Tympanic Thermometer" J. W. Moore & R. S. Newbower, Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, Sep., 1978, pp. 580-584.