US Patent Issued to NGK INSULATORS on May 12 for "Gas sensor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,105, issued on May 12, 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), Yuya Seike (Nagoya, Japan) and Satoru Shiraishi (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a gas sensor that reduces a possibility that a terminal fitting electrically connecting a sensor element and a lead wire to each other breaks due to vibrations applied to the gas sensor. In the gas sensor according to one aspect of the present invention, a value obtained by dividing a second distance db, which is a distance from a start e...