Patent ID: 7847221

Claim:
Heating flange for heating a flow of gas as it flows through a cross-section of flow, wherein the heating flange is formed such that it can be inserted or interposed in an intake line of an internal combustion engine and has at least one heat conductor, which extends through the cross-section of flow from a mounting point to an immediately following further mounting point on the heating flange, as well as a retaining leg piece that is provided with at least one of the mounting points, characterized in that the longitudinal axis of the one retaining leg piece forms a triangle, on the one hand, with two heating side pieces of the heat conductor between the one mounting point and the further mounting point that is also arranged on the one retaining side piece, or, on the other hand, with the longitudinal axis of a further retaining leg piece on which the further mounting point is provided, as well as with the straight line through the one and the further mounting point.