US Patent Issued to NGK INSULATORS on Nov. 3 for "Sensor element of gas sensor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,314, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Sensor element of gas sensor" was invented by Ryo Onishi (Iwakura, Japan), Yusuke Watanabe (Nagoya, Japan), Yasuhide Kojima (Nagoya, Japan) and Takashi Hino (Kasugai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor element includes a porous leading-end protective layer disposed around an outer periphery of an element base in a predetermined range from an end portion on a side where a sensing part is disposed, the protective layer includes: a first layer disposed on two main surfaces of the element base; a second layer disposed to cover the end portion and four ...