US Patent Issued to NGK INSULATORS on Oct. 27 for "Gas sensor and concentration measurement method using gas sensor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,980, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Gas sensor and concentration measurement method using gas sensor" was invented by Yuichiro Kondo (Obu, Japan), Osamu Nakasone (Inabe, Japan) and Yusuke Watanabe (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sub adjustment pump cell pumps out oxygen from a measurement gas introduced into a sub adjustment chamber to the extent that H2O and CO2 contained in the measurement gas are not decomposed, a first pump cell pumps out oxygen from a first chamber so that substantially all of H2O and CO2 contained in the measurement gas introduced from the sub adjustment...