Patent ID: 7393137

Claim:
An electronic clinical thermometer for measuring a body temperature of an organism, which comprises a temperature measuring element for detecting a temperature, a display device for displaying the temperature measured by the temperature measuring element, an operation switch for predetermined operation, and a vibration generator for notifying that the electronic clinical thermometer is in a predetermined state, wherein the electronic clinical thermometer has a width, a thickness, and a longitudinal length longer than said width and said thickness, and the operation switch and the vibration generator are arranged on one side of the display device in the longitudinal direction of the electronic clinical thermometer, further wherein the vibration generator is a vibration motor having a rotating shaft and an eccentric weight rotatable around the rotating shaft and extending long in the direction of the rotating shaft, and the vibration motor is located so that the rotating shaft thereof extends at right angles to the longitudinal direction of the electronic clinical thermometer.