Heating device and method for manufacturing the heating device

1. A heating device, comprising a shaped body and electrical contact-connections for generating a current flow through the shaped body, wherein the shaped body contains a ceramic material with a positive temperature coefficient of electrical resistance and comprises at least one first region and one second region, wherein the first region comprises a ceramic material of a first composition and the second region comprises a ceramic material of a second composition, which is different from the first composition so that a gradient of the electrical and/or thermal properties is present across the shaped body, the gradient either running perpendicular or parallel to the plane of the electrical contact connections and wherein the first region and the second region of the shaped body have a Curie temperature which comprises a range of −30° C. to 340° C.

2. The heating device according to claim 1 , wherein the first and second compositions of the ceramic material comprise one of material compositions, stoichiometric compositions, and material and stoichiometric compositions.

3. The heating device according to claim 1 , wherein the first region and the second region of the shaped body have one of mutually different thermal properties, mutually different electrical properties, and mutually different thermal and electrical properties.

4. The heating device according to claim 1 , wherein the ceramic material comprises the structure Ba 1-x-y M x D y Ti 1-a-b N a Mn b O 3 , where x=0 to 0.5, y=0 to 0.01, a=0 to 0.01, b=0 to 0.01, M comprises a divalent cation, D comprises a trivalent or tetravalent donor, and N comprises a pentavalent or hexavalent cation.

5. The heating device according to claim 1 , wherein the first region and the second region of the shaped body have a resistivity at 25° C. which lies in a range of 3 Ωcm to 100 000 Ωcm.

6. The heating device according to claim 1 , wherein the first region and the second region of the shaped body have identical Curie temperatures and mutually different resistivities at 25° C., or identical resistivities at 25° C. and mutually different Curie temperatures, or mutually different Curie temperatures and mutually different resistivities at 25° C.

7. The heating device according to the claim 1 , wherein the contact-connections are arranged at the shaped body in such a way that current flows through each region of the shaped body.

8. The heating device according to claim 1 , wherein each contact-connection makes contact with each of the at least two regions of the shaped body.

9. The heating device according to claim 1 , wherein the regions of the shaped body are arranged between the contact-connections in such a way that each contact-connection makes contact with a different region.

10. The heating device according to claim 1 , wherein the shaped body is shaped as a nozzle.

11. The heating device according to claim 1 , wherein a passivation layer is arranged on the shaped body.

12. A method for manufacturing a heating device comprising a shaped body and electrical contact-connections for generating a current flow through the shaped body, wherein the shaped body contains a ceramic material with a positive temperature coefficient of electrical resistance and comprises at least one first region and one second region, wherein the first region comprises a ceramic material of a first composition and the second region comprises a ceramic material of a second composition, which is different from the first composition so that a gradient of the electrical and/or thermal properties is present across the shaped body, the gradient either running perpendicular or parallel to the plane of the electrical contact connections and wherein the first region and the second region of the shaped body have a Curie temperature which comprises a range of −30° C. to 340° C., the method comprising the following steps:

A) injection-molding a green body,

B) sintering the green body in order to produce a shaped body, and

C) arranging electrical contact-connections on the shaped body,

wherein at least two mutually different ceramic materials having a positive temperature coefficient of electrical resistance are injection-molded successively in the step A).

13. The method according to claim 12 , wherein, in the step B), an interface region is formed between the at least two different materials, in which interface region the ceramic materials are sintered together.