Ngk Insulators, Inc.

Hironori Sakakibara

Kunihiko Yoshioka

Mika Murakami

Takashi Hino

Koichi Masuda

Shuichi Ozawa

Hiroki Fujita

Shinsaku Maeda

Satoko Moriyama

A sensor element includes an element body having an elongate rectangular parallelepiped shape and including solid electrolyte layers with oxygen ion conductivity, an outer pump electrode disposed on a first surface of the element body, and a protective layer covering at least a part of a second surface of the element body on a side opposite to the first surface and including one or more exposed spaces (a lower space) to which the second surface is exposed.

Sensor element and gas sensor

A sensor element includes an element body having an elongate rectangular parallelepiped shape and including solid electrolyte layers with oxygen ion conductivity, an outer pump electrode disposed on a first surface of the element body, and a protective layer covering at least a part of the first surface of the element body and including one or more exposed spaces (an upper space) to which the first surface is exposed.

A sensor element includes an element body having an elongate rectangular parallelepiped shape and including solid electrolyte layers with oxygen ion conductivity, an outer pump electrode disposed on a first surface of the element body, and a protective layer covering at least a part of the first surface of the element body and including one or more spaces (an upper space) that are present apart from the first surface in a direction perpendicular to the first surface.

A sensor element includes a laminate, in which a plurality of oxygen ion-conductive solid electrolyte layers are stacked and in which a measurement object-gas flow portion is disposed, an inside pump electrode disposed on the inner circumferential surface of the measurement object-gas flow portion, an auxiliary pump electrode, and a measurement electrode. Then, the value of the volume ratio (Va=Vm/Vr) is 14.5 or more and 51.5 or less and the value of the volume ratio (Vb=Vs/Vr) is 5.0 or more and 17.5 or less, where the volume of the inside pump electrodeis specified as (Vm), the volume of the auxiliary pump electrodeis specified as (Vs), and the volume of the measurement electrodeis specified as (Vr).

A sensor element includes an element body having an elongate rectangular parallelepiped shape and including solid electrolyte layers with oxygen ion conductivity, an outer pump electrode disposed on a first surface of the element body, and a protective layer covering at least a part of a second surface of the element body on a side opposite to the first surface and including one or more spaces (a lower space) that are present apart from the second surface in a direction perpendicular to the second surface.

A sensor element includes a sensor element main body a including an oxygen ion-conductive solid electrolyte layer and a porous protective layer covering at least part of the sensor element main body. Then, the porous protective layer has the value of the number of interfaces in a unit thickness direction, which is the number of particle interfaces of constituent particles every 100 &#x3bc;m in the thickness direction, of 15 or more and 250 or less.

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Hironori Sakakibara