US Patent Issued to NGK INSULATORS on July 14 for "Gas sensor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,913, issued on July 14, was assigned to NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Gas sensor" was invented by Shintaro Maki (Nagoya, Japan), Kota Katagiri (Nagoya, Japan), Kohei Yaita (Nagoya, Japan) and Yuya Seike (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a gas sensor that prevents risks such as deterioration of airtightness of the interior of an outer tube, rupture of an elastic body, and occurrence of the displacement of a contact point without swaging a rear end side of the outer tube to have a tapered shape. In the gas sensor according to one aspect of the present invention, a diameter of a reduced diameter portion f...