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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2022
Ngk Insulators, Ltd., Nagoya, JP;
Yusuke Watanabe, Nagoya, JP;
NGK INSULATORS, LTD., Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
A control method of a gas sensor including a sensor element and an activity determining part includes a temperature raising step of heating the sensor element by a heater of the sensor element to raise a temperature of the sensor element up to an active temperature at which the activity determining part determines that the sensor element is in a measurable active state; a prior driving step of raising the temperature of the sensor element by the heater from the active temperature up to a steady driving temperature, and operating a main pump cell and a measurement pump cell of the sensor element to detect NOx in the measurement-object gas; and a steady driving step of maintaining the temperature of the sensor element by the heater at the steady driving temperature, and operating the main pump cell and the measurement pump cell to continuously detect NOx in the measurement-object gas.