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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,992, issued on July 14, was assigned to NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a gas sensor that is low in risk of erosion of an elastic body even when the gas sensor is shortened and prevents a lead retaining portion from coming into contact with an inner surface of a through-hole of the elastic body or closing the through-hole. In the gas sensor according to one aspect of the present invention, one diameter-reduced portion for fixing the elastic...