US 11,940,332 B2
Wet bulb temperature sensor system and method for direct measurement of wet bulb temperature in an oven
Harrison John Lees, San Francisco, CA (US); Scott Martin Heimendinger, San Francisco, CA (US); and Carl Håkan Messler, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Anova Applied Electronics, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by Anova Applied Electronics, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 23, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/029,809.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/904,232, filed on Sep. 23, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0088388 A1, Mar. 25, 2021
Int. Cl. G01K 13/00 (2021.01); A21B 1/40 (2006.01); G01N 25/62 (2006.01)
CPC G01K 13/00 (2013.01) [A21B 1/40 (2013.01); G01N 25/62 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cooking oven wet bulb sensor system comprising:
a cooking chamber including a top wall, a bottom wall, and side walls;
a reservoir secured to one of the side walls and above the bottom wall, with a cavity of the reservoir being open in an upward-facing orientation to the cooking chamber and configured to hold a quantity of water therein;
a temperature sensor probe configured to be mounted at least partially within the cavity of the reservoir, with the temperature sensor probe at least partially submerged in the quantity of water to measure a temperature in the reservoir; and
a water fill opening positioned to dispense water into the cavity.