US Patent Issued to KYOCERA on Jan. 28 for "Gas detection system for detecting a type and concentration of a gas in a sample gas" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,982, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Gas detection system for detecting a type and concentration of a gas in a sample gas" was invented by Shinichi Abe (Uji, Japan), Daisuke Ueyama (Nara, Japan) and Etsuro Shimizu (Uji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas detection system includes a sensor unit that outputs a voltage corresponding to a concentration of a specific gas, a supply unit, and a control unit. The supply unit is capable of supplying a sample gas and a purge gas to the sensor unit. The control unit controls the supply unit to alternately supply the sample gas and the purge gas to the s...