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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2020
Mektec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Tatsuro Hayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Shota Seki, Tokyo, JP;
Hirokazu Iwaki, Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Sasaki, Tokyo, JP;
MEKTEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a tubular heater whose attachment process is facilitated and whose heating efficiency is high. Features of the tubular heater are that the tubular heater includes a tubular elastic bodyand a flexible printed circuit boardprovided integrally with the elastic bodyand formed with a heating circuit and a heating unitof the flexible printed circuit boardformed with the heating circuit is provided in the elastic bodyin a state in which the heating unitis exposed on an inner peripheral side and extends along an inner peripheral surface of the elastic bodywith tip ends of the heating unitbeing separated from each other with a clearance S in a circumferential direction.