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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,981, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Gas sensor and control method of gas sensor" was invented by Yusuke Watanabe (Nagoya, Japan) and Junya Sugiura (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas sensor includes a sensor element and a control unit for controlling the sensor element. The sensor element includes: a base part; a measurement-object gas flow cavity; an oxygen pump cell including an intracavity oxygen pump electrode and an extracavity oxygen pump electrode; a reference gas chamber; and a reference electrode disposed in the reference gas chamber. The control unit includes: a conc...