Patent 7275309 was granted and assigned to NGK Insulators on October, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method of manufacturing an electrical-resistance heating element includes forming sintered ceramics or calcined ceramics, forming an electrode on the sintered ceramics or the calcined ceramics, and forming a ceramic base material having mainly a high melting point metal on the electrode embedded therein, thereby forming a heating element with built-in electrode.