Patent ID: 7473030

Claim:
A thermal sensing device comprising: a thermally isolating support layer with first and second surfaces and with a thickness between the first and second surfaces, the support layer having thermal conductivity across the thickness between its first and second surfaces; a thermometer element on the first surface of the support layer; and a thermally conductive structure on the second surface of the support layer and extending laterally on the second surface between a first region in which the thermally conductive structure receives temperatures and a second region in which the thermometer element has thermal contact with the thermally conductive structure through the thickness between the first and second surfaces of the support layer; the thermally conductive structure laterally conducting a temperature received in the first region to the second region, from which the received temperature is conducted to the thermometer element through the thickness between the first and second surfaces of the support layer; the thermometer element being responsive to the received temperature.