Patent ID: 8143557

Claim:
A plane heater in which a carbon wire heating element is arranged and sealed two-dimensionally inside a silica glass plate-like member, characterized in that surface arrangement densities of said carbon wire heating element are different in an inner area and an outer area located in the periphery, the surface arrangement density in said outer area is denser than the surface arrangement density in the inner area, a power supply terminal unit having connection wires for supplying electricity to said carbon wire heating element is arranged in the center on the back side of said silica glass plate-like member, the connection wire connected with the carbon wire heating element in said inner area is connected with the carbon wire heating element in the inner area in the center of said silica glass plate-like member, the area where the connection wire connected with the carbon wire heating element in the outer area is arranged is a linear, continuous, and absent area where the carbon wire heating element passing from the center toward the periphery side does not exist, and in the arrangement pattern of said carbon wire heating element, the linear, continuous, and absent area of the carbon wire heating element passing from the center toward the periphery side does not exist except for the area where the connection wire connected with the carbon wire heating element in the outer area is arranged, and the connection wire connected with the carbon wire heating element in said outer area is extended from the center of said silica glass plate-like member toward the outer area, and is connected with the carbon wire heating element in the outer area, without intersecting the carbon wire heating element of said inner area.