Automatic measurement apparatus for clinical electrical thermometers

Clinical electrical thermometers are used extensively to check human body temperature during pandemic influenza. An automatic apparatus for clinical electrical thermometers were developed to improve the measurement facility. The apparatus includes two motorized rotation stages mounted separately on two motorized linear stages, computer and CCD camera image module for catching the display value of thermometers. In our demonstrated experiment, it accommodated eight clinical electrical thermometers to be measured automatically under the same immersion period, and the temperature readings of thermometers can be captured precisely by image processing technique.