US Patent Issued to NGK INSULATORS on Oct. 20 for "Gas sensor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,811, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Gas sensor" was invented by Yuta Ito (Nagoya, Japan), Yusuke Fujii (Nagoya, Japan) and Akari Yamada (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas sensor includes a sensor element, and a protection cover accommodating a part of the sensor element that includes one end in a longitudinal direction. When a length in the longitudinal direction from the one end of the sensor element to a middle point of a gas inflow hole of the protection cover is represented as La, and a length index between the sensor element and a circle determined by an inner surface of...