Patent ID: 9655263
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: F24H,H05K,Y10T

Claim:
1. A sealed housing of an electric heating device to be installed in a motor vehicle, comprising: a housing lower part and a housing cover abutting on the housing lower part via an intermediate sealing element and being moveable toward and away from one another with compression and expansion of the sealing element, and an elongate positive locking element that is separate from the housing lower part and the housing cover, that is provided between opposed contact surfaces of the housing lower part and the housing cover, and that interconnects the housing lower part and the housing cover in a form fit manner, wherein the elongate positive locking element abuts on the opposed contact surfaces under a pretensioning force caused by compression of the sealing element such that abutment of the elongate positive locking element with the opposed contact surfaces maintains the compression of the sealing element.