US Patent Issued to NGK INSULATORS on June 23 for "Gas sensor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,398, issued on June 23, was assigned to NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Gas sensor" was invented by Yusuke Watanabe (Nagoya, Japan) and Yohei Goro (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas sensor includes: an element body which is internally provided with a measurement-object gas flow portion; a first pump cell including a first inner electrode disposed in the measurement-object gas flow portion; a second pump cell including a second inner electrode disposed in the measurement-object gas flow portion; a heater; a first impedance measurer configured to measure a first impedance by applying a voltage to the first inner ...