Patent ID: 7507024

Claim:
A temperature sensor comprising: a thermistor element having a pair of electrodes; a sheath pin in which a pair of signal lines is embedded, the signal line pair being connected to the electrode pair of the thermistor element, respectively, and a front part of each signal line being exposed from the sheath pin; a cover surrounding the thermistor element therein and arranged at a front part of the temperature sensor, the cover having a contact positioning part with which a front part of the sheath pin contacts during positioning; and a cement filling between an inside space of the cover and the thermistor element placed in a front part located in front of the contact positioning part of the cover, in order to support and fix the thermistor element to the cover, wherein connection paths are formed between the front part of the sheath pin and the inside surface of the cover, through which the front inside space of the cover located in front of the front part of the sheath pin is joined to a peripheral inside space of the cover located in the front part of the sheath pin; and wherein a cross-section of the contact positioning part in the cover has a polygonal shape.