Patent ID: 7026909
Filing Date: 2006-04-11
Classification: G01K

Abstract:
1. A thermometer assembly comprising a housing, a bore within said housing, and a temperature sensing assembly comprising a rigid mandrel having a length with first and second sections, the first section having a resistance wire temperature sensing element helically wound onto and supported along a length thereof, wherein the first section of the mandrel and the supported resistance wire temperature sensing element is positioned in a first inner portion of the bore and surrounded by particulate material in the bore, and the second section of the mandrel is positioned in a second outer portion of the bore and surrounded by a rigid potting material in the second outer portion of the bore to form a rigid support in the housing for the rigid mandrel section, and the first rigid mandrel section being cantilevered from the second mandrel section and being cushioned by the surrounding particulate material in the first inner portion of the bore.