US Patent Issued to NGK INSULATORS on Feb. 17 for "Sensor element and gas sensor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,874, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Sensor element and gas sensor" was invented by Shotaro Niizuma (Kasugai, Japan), Yusuke Watanabe (Nagoya, Japan), Toshihiro Hirakawa (Kasugai, Japan) and Kirari Takahashi (Ikeda, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor element for detecting a specific gas concentration in a measurement-object gas includes: an element body provided with a measurement-object gas flow section therein, the measurement-object gas flow section introducing the measurement-object gas and causing the measurement-object gas to flow therethrough; a reference electrode disposed i...