Heater element and vehicle interior purification system

Abstract

A heater element 1 includes: a honeycomb structure 10 having an outer peripheral wall 100 and partition walls 110, the partition walls 110 defining a plurality of cells 101a, each of the cells 101a extending from a first end face 10a to a second end face 10b of the honeycomb structure 10 to form a flow path, at least the partition walls 101 being made of a material having a positive temperature coefficient (PTC) property; a first electrode 11 and a second electrode 12 provided on the first end face 10a and the second end face 10b, respectively; and a first metal terminal 13 and a second metal terminal 14 provided on the first electrode 11 and the second electrode 12, respectively, wherein at least one of the first metal terminal 13 and the second metal terminal 14 has a plurality of partial electrodes 15.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.