US Patent Issued to NGK INSULATORS on July 7 for "Sensor element and gas sensor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,723, issued on July 7, was assigned to NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Sensor element and gas sensor" was invented by Kaoru Shibutani (Nagoya, Japan) and Ryo Onishi (Iwakura, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor element includes: an element body having a front end and a back end which are both ends in a longitudinal direction, a lateral face which is a face along the longitudinal direction, an outer lead section disposed on the lateral face; and a dense layer which covers part of the lateral face. The outer lead section has a first region which is covered at least in part by the dense layer. The first region contains zi...