Abstract: Providing a probe for an electronic clinical thermometer, which can measure a surface temperature and a deep body temperature of a human body securely in short time, the probe includes a cylindrical housing, a bottomed metal pipe fitted into a top end of the cylindrical housing, and a substrate having two thin-film heat-sensitive elements arranged perpendicularly on an inner wall of the bottomed metal pipe so as to fix one side edge of the substrate tightly on the inner wall. By measuring heat flux between the two thin-film heat-sensitive elements, the surface and the deep body temperatures of the human body can be predicted by applying the measured values into a heat conduction equation without waiting the sensor to reach in heat balance.

Abstract: A precision infrared detection device is provided, which is capable of measuring a wide range of temperature having a simple constitution, reduces the influence due to the dispersion among the operating points, and enables the cost down. The infrared detection device includes: reference voltage generation means 101 for generating a specific reference voltage; ambient temperature compensation means 102, to which a reference voltage from the reference voltage generation means 101 is applied, for outputting a signal for compensating the ambient temperature; first amplification means 103 for amplifying the signal outputted from the ambient temperature compensation means 102; infrared detection means 104, to which a signal outputted from the first amplification means 103 is applied, for converting infrared radiation energy into an electric signal; and second amplification means 105 for amplifying a signal outputted from the infrared detection means 104.