US 11,940,405 B2
Sensor element, gas sensor, and method for manufacturing sensor element
Hitoshi Furuta, Nagoya (JP); and Akinori Kojima, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to NITERRA CO., LTD., Nagoya (JP)
Filed by NGK SPARK PLUG CO., LTD., Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Aug. 27, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/004,603.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-169124 (JP), filed on Sep. 18, 2019; and application No. 2020-036511 (JP), filed on Mar. 4, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0080423 A1, Mar. 18, 2021
Int. Cl. G01N 27/407 (2006.01); B32B 18/00 (2006.01); C04B 37/00 (2006.01); G01N 33/00 (2006.01)
CPC G01N 27/4071 (2013.01) [B32B 18/00 (2013.01); C04B 37/003 (2013.01); G01N 27/4074 (2013.01); G01N 33/0037 (2013.01); B32B 2315/02 (2013.01); B32B 2457/00 (2013.01); C04B 2237/064 (2013.01); C04B 2237/068 (2013.01); C04B 2237/343 (2013.01); C04B 2237/561 (2013.01); C04B 2237/595 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sensor element having a laminate structure, and extending in an axial direction, the sensor element comprising:
a first ceramic layer and a second ceramic layer disposed apart from each other in a laminating direction;
a third ceramic layer intervening between the first ceramic layer and the second ceramic layer in the laminating direction and having a hollow space formed therein; and
an internal space which is the hollow space surrounded by the first ceramic layer, the second ceramic layer, and the third ceramic layer,
wherein, at a periphery of the internal space, a fourth ceramic layer containing as a main component a ceramic material different from a ceramic material contained as a main component in the first ceramic layer and the third ceramic layer intervenes between the first ceramic layer and the third ceramic layer which are exposed to the internal space,
wherein the fourth ceramic layer is a porous layer and has air permeability, and
wherein, at the periphery of the internal space, a fifth ceramic layer containing as a main component a ceramic material different from the ceramic material contained as the main component in the second ceramic layer and the third ceramic layer intervenes between the second ceramic layer and the third ceramic layer exposed to the internal space.