ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,092, issued on April 7, was assigned to NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Gas sensor and control method of gas sensor" was invented by Yusuke Watanabe (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas sensor includes a sensor element including an adjustment pump cell and a measurement pump cell, and a control unit including a pump control part. The pump control part performs a startup pump control at a startup of the sensor element, and a steady driving pump control at a steady drive after the startup. In the startup pump control, the pump control part applies, between an inner pump electrode and an outer pump electrode of the ...