US 11,838,995 B2
Exhaust gas heater and method for making the same
Jochen Hammer, Stuttgart (DE); Fabian Frobenius, Stuttgart (DE); Holger Brenner, Stuttgart (DE); Dietmar Kuschel, Murr (DE); Fatih Uysal, Plochingen (DE); and Jürgen Häberle, Stuttgart (DE)
Assigned to Purem GmbH, Neunkirchen (DE)
Filed by Purem GmbH, Neunkirchen (DE)
Filed on Aug. 26, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/822,486.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2021 122 082.3 (DE), filed on Aug. 26, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0061713 A1, Mar. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. H05B 3/16 (2006.01)
CPC H05B 3/16 (2013.01) [F01N 2240/16 (2013.01); H05B 2203/016 (2013.01); H05B 2203/017 (2013.01); H05B 2203/022 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An exhaust gas heater for an exhaust gas system of an internal combustion engine, the exhaust gas heater comprising:
a carrier arrangement;
a heating conductor arrangement supported on said carrier arrangement and having at least one current-carrying heating conductor;
a connecting arrangement for fixedly connecting the heating conductor arrangement to said carrier arrangement;
said heating conductor arrangement being supported on said carrier arrangement in an electrically insulated manner by said connecting arrangement; and,
said connecting arrangement including a plurality of connecting elements, said heating conductor arrangement being supported on at least one connecting element of said plurality of connecting elements via an insulating carrier unit so as to electrically insulate said heating conductor arrangement from said at least one connecting element.