ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,573, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Gas sensor and control method of gas sensor" was invented by Yusuke Watanabe (Nagoya, Japan), Daichi Ichikawa (Nagoya, Japan), Kodai Ichikawa (Nisshin, Japan) and Takayuki Sekiya (Nisshin, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas sensor includes a sensor element and a control unit for controlling the sensor element. The sensor element includes: an adjustment pump cell for adjusting an oxygen concentration in a measurement-object gas to a desired concentration; a current measurement pump cell for detecting a target gas to be measured in the measurement-obj...