Denso Corporation

Shigeru Murata

Atsushi Kurano

Kouichi Yoshida

A temperature sensor includes: a sheath tube; a pair of thermocouple wires inserted into the sheath tube; a temperature measuring junction of the pair of thermocouple wires; an insulating support disposed in the sheath tube; and a tip protective tube covering the outer periphery of a tip end of the sheath tube to surround the temperature measuring junction. The tip protective tube includes a base-end side tube portion and a tip-end side tube portion, the tip-end side tube portion having a diameter smaller than that of the base-end side tube portion. The tip-end side tube portion has a tip-end side portion filled with a first insulating filler in which the temperature measuring junction is buried. In the remaining part on the inside of the tip-end side tube portion, an air layer is formed.

Temperature sensor

A temperature sensor which features improved response characteristics and in which a thermistor element is contained in a metal enclosure in a state where a pair of electrode wires for taking out signals are connected in an exposed manner at two opposing end surfaces thereof. The temperature sensor comprises a metal enclosure , a thermistor element contained in the metal enclosure, and a pair of electrode wires connected to the two opposing end surfaces of the thermistor element in a form being exposed over the thermistor element in the metal enclosure to take out thermistor signals, wherein a distance H between the thermistor element and the metal enclosure is not smaller than 0 but is not larger than 0.3 mm.

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Kariya, Japan

Shigeru Murata