US Patent Issued to TDK Electronics on Dec. 23 for "Sensor element and method for manufacturing a sensor element" (Austrian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,335, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to TDK Electronics AG (Munich).

"Sensor element and method for manufacturing a sensor element" was invented by Anke Weidenfelder (Graz, Austria), Jan Ihle (Raaba-Grambach, Austria), Thomas Stendel (Berlin) and Lutz Heiner Kirsten (Deutschlandsburg, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment a sensor element includes a carrier having an electrically insulating material, a top side and a bottom side, an NTC thermistor arranged on the top side of the carrier and at least two first electrodes configured for electrically contacting the sensor element, wherein the first electrodes are arran...