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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2007
Filed:
May. 22, 2006
Tetsuya Kawamoto, Shiga, JP;
Hideki Yamada, Shimane, JP;
Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Shimane, JP;
Minoru Shimada, Shiga, JP;
Kingo Ohmura, Shiga, JP;
Asami Wakabayashi, Shiga, JP;
Tetsuya Kawamoto, Shiga, JP;
Hideki Yamada, Shimane, JP;
Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Shimane, JP;
Minoru Shimada, Shiga, JP;
Kingo Ohmura, Shiga, JP;
Asami Wakabayashi, Shiga, JP;
Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
Temperature sensors are produced by first producing temperature sensing elements each having electrodes on its mutually oppositely facing main surfaces, next forming a lead frame comprising a linearly elongated base part and a plurality of pairs of planar lead parts extending perpendicularly from said base part, twisting each of these planar lead parts such that each of the pairs has top end parts which face each other with a gap therebetween, inserting one of the temperature sensing elements between the mutually facing top end parts of each pair in the corresponding gap and electrically connecting the electrodes on the inserted temperature sensing element individually to the top end parts of the corresponding pair, and cutting each of the planar lead parts from said base part to form lead terminals of specified lengths for the temperature sensors. Each of the planar lead parts is provided with a semicircular kinked part distal from the top end part such that the kinked parts of each of the pairs of planar lead parts are bent in a same direction with respect to each other and in a side-by-side relationship.