US Patent Issued to NGK INSULATORS on Feb. 11 for "Sensor element of gas sensor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,222,313, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Sensor element of gas 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 a 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 space electrode disposed to face the internal space, an out-of-space pump electrode disposed at a location other than the internal space, and a portion of the base part loca...