Patent ID: 8657491

Claim:
A detachable probe cover for an ear thermometer, which is to be mounted onto a measuring probe of the ear thermometer, wherein a combining mechanism is provided at a bottom of the measuring probe and the detachable probe cover comprises a main body of a hollow structure and a base, in which the main body has an open end and a closed end opposite to the open end, and the hollow structure has a diameter gradually reducing from the open end toward the closed end, which is characterized in: the main body being integrally made of a plastic material and having at least one flange radially extended outward from the open end; the base comprising a base plate, an opening formed at a center of the base plate, a longitudinal axis and a transverse axis, wherein the longitudinal axis is perpendicular to the transverse axis and the opening is corresponding to the open end of the main body; a pair of retaining recesses being provided on the base plate and an entrance being provided at an end of each of the retaining recesses, wherein: each of the retaining recesses includes a sidewall extending upwardly from the base plate and a covering plate extending from a lateral side of the base plate toward the opening; and the two retaining recesses are symmetrically settled so that the flange of the main body parallelly enters and be parallelly inlaid in the base through the entrance along an inserting direction, in which the inserting direction is parallel to the longitudinal axis of the base; a distance between the entrances of the retaining recesses is smaller than a maximum diameter of the flange of the main body.