Patent ID: 11283972

Abstract:
Disclosed is an enclosed camera apparatus for use in applications with high temperature and/or airborne powder. The apparatus includes a housing enclosing a camera, with air moving within the housing that cools the camera and pressurizes the housing such that some air expels through a camera outward viewing orifice (aka “camera hole”), such that the camera can look outwardly through the orifice without powder accumulating around and atop the camera lens and/or camera viewing orifice. The camera is held in place by a machined camera mount that centers the camera on the orifice and allows compressed air to pass over the camera and the cable to protect it from overheating. The machined camera mount allows compressed air to pass back through the rest of the housing after it cools the camera to cool the rest of the housing, including the power and signal supply lines of the camera, before it exhausts out the top. Also provided is a wiping apparatus that wipes accumulated powder from atop or around the camera viewing orifice.