Patent ID: 6020578
Filing Date: 2000-02-01
Classification: H05B

Abstract:
Electric heating or thermal element, in particular tape, web or mat-shaped or similar electric heating or thermal element, which comprises a mesh-shaped electric conductor arrangement, characterized in that at least one wire of the conductor arrangement runs in segments of a mesh-shate configuration consisting of a substantially continuous series of interwoven tuck loops forming the mesh and the segments comprising the loops of wire are uninsulated in order to produce contact points between a plurality of individual meshes, and in that in addition to the mesh-shaped wire arrangement there is provided at least one further carrier component for each of the said at least one wire which holds the individual meshes of the wire segments in a defined position ensuring multiple contact between individual meshes, with the at least one further carrier component running in parallel, side-by-side relationship with said at least one mesh wire to form the mesh-shaped electric conductor arrangement.