Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Gas sensor
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Application No.: US15726583Application Date: 2017-10-06
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Publication No.: US10551341B2Publication Date: 2020-02-04
- Inventor: Taku Okamoto , Nobuhiko Mori , Yuki Nakayama
- Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Nagoya
- Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Nagoya
- Agency: Mattingly & Malur, PC
- Priority: JP2016-200798 20161012
- Main IPC: G01N27/407
- IPC: G01N27/407 ; G01N27/30 ; G01N27/419

Abstract:
Provided is a gas sensor having simpler configuration than a conventional multi-gas sensor, and being capable of measuring NOx and NH3 simultaneously. In the gas sensor determining a NOx concentration in a measurement gas based on a pump current flowing between a NOx measurement electrode and an outer pump electrode, the outer pump electrode has catalytic activity inactivated for NH3 so that a sensor element further includes a NH3 sensor part having a mixed potential cell constituted by the outer pump electrode, a reference electrode, and a solid electrolyte between these electrodes, and determination of a NH3 concentration based on a potential difference occurring between the outer pump electrode and the reference electrode and determination of a NOx concentration based on the pump current and the NH3 concentration can be performed simultaneously or selectively when the sensor element is heated to 400° C. or higher and 600° C. or lower.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180100828A1 GAS SENSOR Public/Granted day:2018-04-12
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