Patent ID: 8736261

Claim:
A sensor module comprising: a sensor that includes a semiconductor device configured to output to an outside a signal which corresponds to information about a measuring object; a module cover that holds the sensor and includes a connector configured to make a connection with an external device; and a wiring unit that is held by the module cover and is arranged from the connector to the sensor, wherein: the wiring unit includes: a connecting member extending from the connector to a central region of the module cover in its width direction, which is perpendicular to a central line of the module cover in a longitudinal direction thereof; and a wiring member extending from the central region of the module cover in its width direction to a vicinity of the sensor; the module cover and the connecting member are integrally formed from a mold material having insulation properties; the connecting member includes a first connecting terminal that is exposed from a surface of the mold material at the central region of the module cover in its width direction; the wiring member includes a second connecting terminal that is conductively joined to the first connecting terminal; the module cover is any one of a first module cover and a second module cover, which have different shapes from each other; and the first module cover and the second module cover have such plane-symmetrical shapes that a direction of fitting of a first connector of the first module cover into the external device and a direction of fitting of a second connector of the second module cover into the external device are reversed by 180 degrees relative to each other and face in opposite directions from each other, with a plane, which passes through the central region of the module cover in its width direction and includes the central line of the module cover in its longitudinal direction, serving as a symmetry plane.