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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:
Oct. 29, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Riken, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 2/7407 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 2/7407 ;
Abstract
A combined gas sensor of the invention is equipped with a second oxygen sensing electrode active only to oxygen, which is disposed on a solid electrolyte substrate such that it is directly exposed to detection gases. Sensor disorder is detected by measuring an electromotive force (signal output ) generated between a reference electrode and the second oxygen sensing electrode as an oxygen concentration in an exhaust gas atmosphere, and comparing and judging the detected result with a signal output corresponding to an electromotive force between a first oxygen sensing electrode and the sit reference electrode , or with a signal output of an oxygen pump current.