US Patent Issued to NGK INSULATORS on July 22 for "Gas sensor and method of diagnosing moisture absorption state of gas sensor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,565, issued on July 22, was assigned to NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Gas sensor and method of diagnosing moisture absorption state of gas sensor" was invented by Yusuke Watanabe (Nagoya, Japan), Ryo Hashikawa (Nagoya, Japan) and Daichi Ichikawa (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas sensor includes a sensor element and a controller. The sensor element includes an element body provided with a measurement-object gas flow section therein, a measurement electrode disposed in the measurement-object gas flow section, an outer pump electrode provided in the element body so that the outer pump electrode comes into conta...