Platinum Resistance Wires
Resistance wires are designed for precise and reliable electrical performance in demanding applications, ensuring stable resistance values, high temperature durability, and long-term consistency.
Resistance Wire Portfolio
The portfolio includes alpha wires, resistance wires for sensors, and resistance wires for initiators, each tailored to meet specific functional and safety requirements across advanced industrial applications.
Resistance Wires for Temperature Measurement
Platinum wires are used in resistance thermometers and gas flow meters. Using state‑of‑the‑art manufacturing technologies, ultra‑thin, high‑quality resistance wires are produced to customer specifications, enabling the manufacture of high‑precision measuring resistors. The excellent physical properties of platinum ensure stable electrical behavior with minimal drift and high reproducibility.
About Resistance Wires for Temperature Measurement
Heraeus uses state-of-the-art manufacturing technologies to produce the thinnest high-quality resistance wires to customer specifications, thus allowing the production of high-precision measuring resistors.
Thanks to the excellent physical properties of platinum, our wire demonstrates stable electrical behavior with minimal drift and a high degree of reproducibility.
Advantages
Our comprehensive technical expertise and years of experience enable us to offer the wires best suited to your application. Our exact process control allows you to achieve particularly high precision for the measuring elements in your application.
Overview of your advantages:
- Application technology consultation
- Resistance and TC values according to your exact specifications
- High precision due to tight manufacturing tolerances
- Also available as very thin platinum strips
- High degree of reproducibility
Take advantage of our decades of experience in resistance wires.
Application Fields
- Resistance thermometers
- Reference thermometers
- Gas flow meters such as respiratory gas sensors
Product Properties
- Alpha values ranging from 3800 ppm to ≥ 3925 ppm
- Electrical resistance and mechanical characteristics can be varied
- Wire diameter ≥ 10 µm
Material Properties
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Resistance Wires for Sensors
Due to their consistent electrical resistance, precise diameters, and strong mechanical properties, resistance wires for sensors deliver high precision, reliability, and durability. Their excellent surface quality, high wear resistance, and corrosion stability in harsh environments ensure long service life and operational safety. In addition, the wires can be soldered and formed to meet specific application requirements.
About Resistance Wires for Sensors
Because of their consistent resistance, precise diameters, and strong mechanical properties, these wires deliver exceptional precision, reliability, and durability. Furthermore, their high resistance to wear, excellent surface quality, and ability to withstand corrosion in harsh environments make them a long-lasting and secure product. Additionally, the wires can be soldered and bent to meet specific requirements.
Advantages of Resistance Wires for Sensors
- Very high precision, reliability, and long service life
- Constant resistance, precise diameters, and good mechanical strengths and ductility
- Materials adapted to your requirements
- Individual consultation by experts
Application Fields
- For measuring filling levels in immersion tube fuel gauges
- In wire-wound precision potentiometers
- In light barriers
Material Properties
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Resistance Wires for (Airbag) Initiators
Resistance Wires are used as an airbag initiator to trigger the front or side airbags, in the seat belt tensioner, on the engine hood, and in the battery circuit breaker. The bridge wire is also used in military technology, pyrotechnology, and electronic ignition systems for blasting applications.
About Resistance Wires for (Airbag) Initiators
Resistance Wires are used as an airbag initiator to trigger the front or side airbags, in the seat belt tensioner, on the engine hood, and in the battery circuit breaker. The bridge wire is also used in military technology, pyrotechnology, and electronic ignition systems for blasting applications.
Advantages
- High degree of reproducibility of ignition properties
- Manufacturing within tightest resistance tolerances
- Weldable resistance wires made of special alloys
- Faster response behavior than non-precious alloys
- Specified resistance
- Individual consultation for customer-specific applications
- State-of-the-art manufacturing facilities
Product Properties & Technical Data
- Common diameters ranging from 10 µm to 30 µm
- Typical alloys platinum/tungsten and platinum/iridium
- Waste material can be recycled and credited to your precious metal account
Material Properties
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