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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2015
Applicant:
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Allentown, PA (US);
Inventors:
Yan Zhao, Allentown, PA (US);
Xianming Jimmy Li, Orefield, PA (US);
Assignee:
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Allentown, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 5/33 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/00989 (2013.01); H04N 1/00103 (2013.01); H04N 5/2252 (2013.01); H04N 5/2254 (2013.01); H04N 5/23241 (2013.01); H04N 5/33 (2013.01); H04N 2005/2255 (2013.01); H04N 2201/0084 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for thermal imaging of an interior space of a high temperature furnace through an opening in a wall of the furnace. An outer housing houses at least a portion of a rigid borescope. The outer housing has a port for aspirating ambient air through the outer housing to cool the rigid borescope and passing the air through a hole at the end of the outer housing and into the furnace. A camera is operatively connected to a rigid borescope but is located such that it is isolated from the air passing through the outer housing.