Temperature sensor, temperature detection device and image formation device

Abstract

A temperature sensor that sufficiently has heat insulation property and the pressing force to a temperature measurement object to a degree allowing a ceramic paper to be substituted, and that has a good responsiveness, and a temperature detection device and an image formation device that include the temperature sensor. The temperature sensor is disposed so as to maintain an abutting state with a temperature measurement object, the temperature sensor including: a thermosensitive element configured to detect the temperature of the temperature measurement object; a heat collection member configured to pressurize the temperature measurement object and to be thermally coupled with the thermosensitive element; and a holding member supporting the heat collection member and forming a space that faces the heat collection member.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.