ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,472, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Gas sensor" was invented by Shintaro Maki (Nagoya, Japan), Kota Katagiri (Nagoya, Japan), Satoru Shiraishi (Nagoya, Japan), Kohei Yaita (Nagoya, Japan), Yuya Seike (Nagoya, Japan) and Daiki Hamamoto (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a gas sensor including a housing made of metal through which a sensor element is inserted and an outer cylinder made of metal welded to an outer periphery of the housing, in which generation of pinholes on a surface of a welded portion is suppressed. In a gas sensor according to one aspect of the present ...