In dynamic temperature measurement, thermocouple sensors are widely used, and their dynamic characteristics directly affect the accuracy of the test results. So before applying thermocouple sensors to dynamic temperature measurement, their dynamic characteristics should be obtained, and their dynamic performance parameters should be analyzed. The time constant is the most important dynamic parameter, which reflects the response speed of a thermocouple sensor. Therefore, it is necessary to measure the time constant. The time constant is closely related to the heat transfer mode, so the heat transfer environment of the time constant measurement system should be similar to the application environment of thermocouple sensor. When using the thermocouple to measure the temperature in various kilns, the heat transfer is mainly through the radiative mode, and existing equipment, such as constant temperature water/oil tank, shock wave tube and other devices, cannot be used to measure the time constant to reflect scenarios in actual measurement applications. Therefore, this paper proposed a new method to measure the time constant of the thermocouple by improved high temperature furnace. In the system, the high temperature furnace was used to generate the stable temperature field, and the fast feed device was used to insert the thermocouple into the high temperature furnace and generates the ramp temperature excitation. The temperature can reach 1500 • C in the furnace, and the temperature error in uniform temperature field is ±1 • C. Finally, the time constant of a K-type thermocouple was measured, and the uncertainty of the measurement result was analyzed.2 of 12 transfer mode. At present, there are many kinds of measurement methods and devices of time constant, such as constant temperature water/oil tank, hot wind tunnel, shock tube, laser, and so on.Stable temperature fields in water flow and airflow environments are generated by constant temperature water/oil tank and hot wind tunnel respectively. The thermocouple is inserted into the stable flow field rapidly, and the thermocouple is excited by step temperature. The time constant is obtained by the thermocouple response. Xiong J. and Wang X.N. [1,2] measured the response time and delay time of the thermocouple by constant temperature water/oil tank, and the dynamic error was corrected. Zhao S.A. [3] developed a hot wind tunnel with the temperature range from 1000 • C to 1700 • C, and the step response of the thermocouple was obtained. Shock tube is used to generate step pressure, which is usually used for dynamic calibration of pressure sensors. After breaking the film, the gas in the high pressure chamber compresses the gas in the low pressure chamber to produce the shock wave. The step pressure is generated on the pressure sensor by the shock wave and used to excite the pressure sensor. At the same time, due to the gas compression, there is also a temperature step behind the shock wave, which can be used to excite the thermocouple. Meng X.F. et al. [4,5] modified ...