US Patent Issued to NGK Insulators on Aug. 26 for "Sensor element of NO X sensor and method for manufacturing sensor element of NO X sensor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,146, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to NGK Insulators Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Sensor element of NO X sensor and method for manufacturing sensor element of NO X sensor" was invented by Takayuki Sekiya (Nisshin, Japan), Yusuke Watanabe (Nagoya, Japan) and Shiho Iwai (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor element includes: a base part containing an oxygen-ion conductive solid electrolyte as a constituent material; at least one internal space into which a measurement gas is introduced; and at least one pump cell including an internal electrode disposed to face the at least one internal space, an out-of-space pump electrod...