Patent ID: 9689755
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: G01K

Claim:
1. A temperature sensor comprising: a sensor body extending from a sensor base to an opposed sensor tip along a longitudinal axis and defining a leading edge and opposed trailing edge, wherein the sensor body defines an interior flow passage with an inlet for fluid communication of fluid into the interior flow passage and an outlet for exhausting fluid out from the interior flow passage; and a wedge extension defined on the sensor body between the sensor tip and the sensor base on the leading edge of the sensor body, wherein the wedge extension is positioned to move a low pressure region aft relative to respective forward low pressure regions inboard and outboard of the wedge extension along the longitudinal axis, wherein at least a portion of the outlet is downstream of at least a portion of the wedge extension, relative to the leading edge and the trailing edge, proximate the low pressure region for increasing airflow from the inlet, through the interior flow passage, to the outlet.