Capacitive sensor device (31) designed to be connected between an electrical
heating element (52) and a
heating power supply (46) and to use the electrical
heating element (52) as an antenna
electrode, comprising - a common-mode
choke (43) with a first and a second inductively coupled winding (44, 45), wherein the first winding (44) is designed to be connected between a first terminal (47) of the heating current supply (46) and a first terminal of the
electric heating element (52), and wherein the second winding (45) is designed to be connected between a second terminal of the
electric heating element and a second terminal (48) of the heating current supply (46); and - a control and evaluation circuit (32) designed to feed a
periodic alternating measurement
signal into the electrical
heating element (52) via a measuring node (40), to measure an electrical quantity through the measuring node (40) and to derive an
electrical impedance (53) between the electrical heating element (52) and a counter
electrode based on the measured electrical quantity; characterized in that the control and evaluation circuit (32) comprises the following: - a third common-mode
choke winding (33) which is inductively coupled to the first winding (44) and the second winding (45) of the common-mode
choke (43); - a periodic
signal voltage source (36) designed to apply an AC measuring
voltage to an output terminal, wherein the output terminal is electrically directly connected to a first connection (34) of the third common-mode choke winding (33); - an electrical quantity measurement circuit (37) with a
signal input terminal (38) and a reference input terminal (39) designed to determine the electrical quantity through the measuring node (40) using an electrical reference quantity provided to the reference input terminal (39), wherein the signal input terminal (38) is electrically connected to a second terminal (35) of the third common-mode choke winding (33) and the reference input terminal (39) is electrically connected to an earth conductor providing an AC earth potential; and - an EMI filter network (41) which is electrically connected via the signal input terminal (38) and the reference input terminal (39) of the electrical quantity measurement circuit (37).