US Patent Issued to NGK INSULATORS on Sept. 16 for "Gas sensor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,601, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Gas sensor" was invented by Takayuki Sekiya (Nissin, Japan) and Yusuke Watanabe (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas sensor detects a specific gas concentration in a measurement-object gas and includes an element body and one or more pump cells. The element body includes an oxygen-ion-conductive solid electrolyte layer and is provided with a measurement-object gas flow section therein. The measurement-object gas flow section receives a measurement-object gas and allows the measurement-object gas to flow therethrough. The one or more pump ce...