Method for manufacturing gas composition detector
AssigneeNippondenso Co., Ltd.
InventorsKazuo Tanaka, Osamu Takenaka, Masatosi Suzuki
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Abstract
A gas composition detector, particularly an oxygen concentration detector includes a metal oxide an electrical resistance or an electromotive force of which is changed by oxygen ions which are conducted in accordance with a difference between an oxygen concentration of gas being examined and an oxygen concentration of a reference gas. A surface of the metal oxide is coated with a conductive metal electrode, and a metal which is the same as or different than the conductive metal penetrates into the metal oxide at the interface of the metal oxide and the conductive metal, whereby the tear-off of the electrode is prevented.
Claims6
A method for manufacturing a gas composition detector comprising a metal oxide mixture, the electrical resistance or the electromotive force of which changes with the concentration of the gas composition of gas to be examined, said method comprising the steps of:
- pre-calcining said metal oxide mixture to form a preform detection element having a porous surface of sufficient porosity to permit a aqueous solution including a conductive metal component to penetrate said pre-calcined detection element;
- spraying said aqueous solution including said conductive metal component on said pre-calcined element;
- drying said pre-calcined detection element;
- firing said detection element to cause further sintering of said element whereby said porous surface is concentrated and some particles of said conductive metal component penetrate the concentrated porous surface of said detection element while other particles remain on said surface, to cause the penetrated particles and the other particles of said conductive metal component to be strongly deposited on the porous surface;
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- forming an electrode layer of the same metal as said conductive metal component on a surface of the fired detection element through said conductive metal component, the metal protrusions on the surface of the detection element from said strongly deposited conductive metal component serving as a base for the metal plating in said forming step to provide strong adhesion between the metal layers in the first and second metal deposition steps.
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