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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 1991
Filed:
Mar. 08, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
New Cosmos Electric Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
422 98 ; 422 96 ; 422 88 ; 73 3106 ; 338 34 ;
Abstract
A smell sensing element and a smell sensing device utilizing the element. The smell sensing element has a semiconductor portion formed mainly of SnO.sub.2. The semiconductor portion has a first component of at least one selected from the group consisting of oxides of alkaline earth metals and a second component of at least one selected from the group consisting of oxides of Sc, Y, Ti, Zr, Hf, Th, Al, Ga and lanthanoids added thereto.