Patent ID: 7418882

Claim:
A measuring probe for measurement in molten metal, the probe comprising a measuring head arranged on an immersion end of a carrier tube, a bath contact and at least one sensor for determining a component of the molten metal being arranged on the immersion end, wherein the bath contact, viewed in an immersion direction, has a first bath contact region having two surface regions extending parallel to the immersion direction lying on opposite sides of the first bath contact and a second bath contact region having two surfaces regions extending parallel to the immersion direction and lying on opposite sides of the second bath contact, wherein a material stable in the molten metal is arranged on the opposite surface regions of the first bath contact region, wherein a material stable in the molten metal is arranged on at most only one of the opposite surface regions of the second bath contact region, and wherein at least one of the opposite surface regions of the second bath contact region is free of the stable material.