TEMPERATURE SENSOR

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a temperature sensor for preventing a trouble such as separation of a protection insulation sheet of the temperature sensor pasted with an adhesive because the attachment direction of a heat sensitive element becomes parallel to the moving direction of a body to be detected in the touching position of the temperature sensor detecting the temperature of a fixing roller and the like. SOLUTION: The temperature sensor is constituted so that a pair of elastic thin width metal plates are connected to an external drawing terminals, a heat sensing part including the heat sensitive element at the tip end of the pair of elastic thin width metal plate, which has a projection of the elastic thin width metal plate formed to surround the heat sensitive element and the insulation sheet covers the both sides of the metal plate including the heat sensitive element. The shape of the side of the projection formes the tip end projection surrounding the heat sensitive element of the thin width metal plate so that the attaching direction of the heat sensitive element to the thin width metal plate is parallel to the moving direction of the body to be detected. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO