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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 18, 2009
Hiroyuki Shindo, Kasugai, JP;
Toyohiko Asai, Kasugai, JP;
Hiroyuki Shindo, Kasugai, JP;
Toyohiko Asai, Kasugai, JP;
NGK Insulators, Ltd., Nagoya, JP;
NGK Printer Ceramics Co., Ltd., Komaki, JP;
Abstract
A sensor element is formed by cutting a laminated body and heating with the cutting taking place in a state where a difference in resistance on sides of a cutting component is as small as possible. That is, a uniform cutting is where resistance added to both sides of the cutting component is substantially the same. When uniform cutting cannot be performed, a nonuniform cutting in a state where resistance added to both sides of the cutting component is different is performed. Consequently, a surface perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the sensor element is trapezoidal.