Sheath heater
AssigneeTokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKazumi Shimotori, Isao Izumi, Hideki Murabayashi
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Abstract
A sheath heater having a heating wire embedded in a ceramic insulator such that the thermal deformation of the heating wire is substantially prevented, wherein the heating wire is formed of a nichrome-based wire having an Al-rich surface layer so as to permit forming an oxidation-protective alumina layer on the surface of the nichrome-based wire.
Claims5
A metal sheath heater having a coiled heating wire embedded in a ceramic insulator, enclosed in said sheath, such that the thermal deformation of the heating wire is is substantially prevented by the insulator, characterized in that the heating wire is formed of a nichrome-based wire having an Al-rich surface layer which is converted into alumina by thermal oxidation and alloyed with the nichrome-based wire wherein the Al-rich surface layer is formed by a hot dipping on the surface of the nichrome-based wire.
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