US 11,835,364 B2
Sensor housing with debris sloughing structure
David B Rees, Encinitas, CA (US); Ronald Wayne Toten, Laguna Niguel, CA (US); and Lawrence Brian Merchell, San Marcos, CA (US)
Assigned to HADRONEX, INC., Escondido, CA (US)
Filed by Hadronex, Inc., Escondido, CA (US)
Filed on Jan. 29, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/163,252.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/967,531, filed on Jan. 29, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0231469 A1, Jul. 29, 2021
Int. Cl. G01D 11/24 (2006.01); G01N 33/00 (2006.01); G01S 7/02 (2006.01)
CPC G01D 11/245 (2013.01) [G01N 33/004 (2013.01); G01N 33/0044 (2013.01); G01N 33/0047 (2013.01); G01S 7/02 (2013.01); G01S 7/027 (2021.05)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An environmental sensor device, comprising:
a sensor housing configured for use in a gas environment, having a predominately vertical face;
a sensor housing support;
at least one sensor disposed on the predominantly vertical face; and
at least one debris sloughing structure having a channel with a set of inner and outer ridges disposed around a periphery of the at least one sensor, a top portion of the debris sloughing structure displaced downward and distal from an upper end of the predominately vertical face and above the at least one sensor, a bottom portion of the debris sloughing structure displaced upward and distal from a lower end of the predominantly vertical face and below the at least one sensor, and lateral portions of the debris sloughing structure on lateral sides of the at least one sensor,
wherein a shape and arrangement of the debris sloughing structure is configured to carry condensate or contaminants forming on non-sensor predominately vertical face areas above the debris sloughing structure to the lower end of the predominantly vertical face.