Control Device With a Getter Layer For Use in a Motor Vehicle

An electronic control device comprising:

• a housing that includes a housing base and a housing cover, and that encloses an interior space therein;
• a seal arrangement arranged between the housing base and the housing cover;
• a circuit carrier having electrically conductive tracks, arranged in the interior space;
• an electronic component disposed on the circuit carrier in the interior space;
• an electrical conductor arrangement that is electrically conductively connected to the electronic component and that extends out of the housing;
• and
• a thermally sprayed getter layer of a getter material disposed on at least a partial surface area of an inner surface of the housing that bounds the interior space, wherein the getter layer has been formed by and has characteristics as result from thermally spraying the getter material onto at least the partial surface area of the inner surface of the housing, and wherein the getter layer is effective to getter at least a corrosive gas component from the interior space thereby improving protection against corrosion of at least one of the electronic component, the electrically conductive tracks and the electrical conductor arrangement within the interior space.