A sample holder includes: a ceramic substrate including one main surface serving as a sample holding surface; a heat-generating resistor located inside or on an other main surface of the ceramic substrate; a metal member having a first surface bonded to, by a bonding layer, and covering the other main surface of the ceramic substrate, the metal member including a through hole penetrating from the first surface to an opposite surface of the metal member; a lead terminal inserted into the metal member; and a conductive portion located inside the bonding layer, the conductive portion electrically connecting the heat-generating resistor and the lead terminal, the conductive portion including a region which extends in a same direction as the other main surface, and separate from the other main surface of the ceramic substrate.

A heating element includes a body, a heating wire, and two pins. The body is a concave member including a through hole. The two pins are disposed on two ends of the heating wire, respectively.

An exhaust gas heater for an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine includes a carrier arrangement and a heating conductor arrangement supported on the carrier arrangement. The heating conductor arrangement has at least one heating conductor wherethrough current flows. The at least one heating conductor is supported with respect to the carrier arrangement by at least one connecting element. At least one length compensation arrangement has a first length compensation element, which has a first supporting surface providing a wedge formation, and has a second length compensation element, which has a second supporting surface supported on the first supporting surface and provides a counter-wedge formation. The length compensation arrangement is provided in association with the at least one connecting element. The first length compensation element and the second length compensation element have materially different coefficients of thermal expansion.

A conveyance device to convey a recording medium includes a heater, a first temperature detector, a second temperature detector, and a recording medium detector. The heater heats the recording medium. The first temperature detector and the second temperature detector detect a temperature of the heater. The recording medium detector detects the recording medium. The first temperature detector is disposed at a position farther from a center position of a heating region of the heater than the second temperature detector in a conveyance orthogonal direction. The conveyance orthogonal direction is along a surface of the recording medium and orthogonal to a direction in which the recording medium is conveyed. The recording medium detector is disposed on a side opposite to the first temperature detector with respect to the second temperature detector in the conveyance orthogonal direction.

A PTC heating element for an electric heating device includes frame which is made of electrically non-conductive material and which encloses at least one PTC element, conductor tracks electrically connected to the PTC element, and insulating layers bearing, in a heat-conductive manner, against an oppositely disposed main side surface of the PTC element. The frame has contact strips which project over itself and which are electrically conductively connected to the conductor tracks for energizing the PTC element with different polarities. In order to provide an electrically well-insulated PTC heating element allows good heat coupling, s a film respectively covers the outer surfaces of the insulating layers. A corresponding PTC heating element may be provided in a circulation chamber of the electric heating device. In this case, the conductor tracks are electrically connected to the PTC element, protrude through a partition wall of the electric heating device, and are exposed and electrically connected in a connection chamber. The connection chamber is separated by the partition wall from the circulation chamber.

A heater includes a base having a first surface and a second surface, and a heat generator disposed on a third surface of the base, the third surface being parallel to the first surface. The base includes a hole portion that opens in at least the second surface. The third surface includes a plurality of blank areas on each of which the heat generator is not present and each of which is circular. The blank areas include a first blank area including a region that the hole portion overlaps and a second blank area that does not include a region that the hole portion overlaps.

A light emitting and receiving module with heater is provided, which includes a base material. A light emitting and receiving element is disposed on the base material and performs at least one of light reception and light emission. A heater film includes an electrode formed on a base sheet. The heater film is formed so as to cover the light emitting and receiving element. A capacitance detection unit electrically connected to the electrode detects a floating capacitance between the light emitting and receiving element and the heater film. A power source electrically connected to the electrode heats the heater film. A control board switches the connection with the electrode between the capacitance detection unit and the power source.

A cooking vessel according to one example embodiment includes a food receptacle for holding food during cooking. The cooking vessel includes an inner shell and an outer shell. An outside surface of the inner shell forms the food receptacle. A portion of an inside surface of the inner shell is spaced from a portion of an inside surface of the outer shell forming a sealed volume between the inner shell and the outer shell. A heat pipe is positioned within the sealed volume between the inner shell and the outer shell for distributing heat through the sealed volume between the inner shell and the outer shell. Embodiments include those wherein each of the inner shell and the outer shell includes a respective bottom wall and a respective side wall.

A vaporizing assembly for an aerosol-generating system may comprise a delivery device and a heater assembly. The heater assembly may comprise a heat resistive substrate and a heating element. The delivery device is configured to deliver an aerosol-forming substrate to at least a surface of the heat resistive substrate, wherein the heating element is isolated or separated from the aerosol-forming substrate by the heat resistive substrate. The present disclosure is also directed to a method for generating an aerosol.

A dose unit including at least one isolated bioactive agent applied on a carrier material in thermal contact with an electrically heating element configured to vaporize a pre-determined amount of the agent for pulmonary delivery thereof is provided herein, as well as devices for effecting vaporization and pulmonary delivery of the isolated agent, and methods for preparing the dose unit, controllably releasing the agent therefrom, methods for pulmonary delivery thereof and methods of treatment of medical conditions treatable by pulmonary delivery of the isolated bioactive agent.