It depends on why you are making the measurement. If it is for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes then this is a medical device. If it is for (for instance) allowing people to monitor their temperature while exercising, or to protect them from high external temperatures then it is not (but it might be PPE).
Rgds Nick. At 9:18 am +0800 18/10/05, Daniel Liang wrote: >Content-Type: text/html; charset=big5 >X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by >alphaone.ieee.org id j9I0ukPC025715 > >Dear all, > >For a device with a small metallic plate touching human skin for >sensing the temperature, does it need to concern the medical >directive or just EMC directive? > >Thanks advance for any comment or reply. > >Regards, > >Daniel. > - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/listserv/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas [email protected] Mike Cantwell [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: [email protected] David Heald: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
