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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To maintain thermal transfer and mechanical strength in parts in the required status at assembly in a sheath heater, a cylindrical body, a cap or the like of an anti-freeze block heater for engine cooling water. SOLUTION: The block heater is equipped with a sheath heater 2 having a heating element 18 buried in heat resistant insulating powder 22 in a sheath 11, a cylindrical body 3 mounted on a heater mounting part of an engine block for an automobile while retaining the sheath heater rare end, and a cap 4 assembled in the opposite side end to the sheath heater of the cylindrical body and holding a heater connecting end of a cable 5 having a power receptacle 6 on one end. A gap 30 is provided between the cap side end of the cylindrical body and the body side end of the cap. In the sheath heater holding part in the cylindrical body, a gap 33 is provided between the heater side end and a heating part in the sheath heater. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
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