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US 6,637,254 B2Granted
Sensor element having a protective device
AssigneeRobert Bosch GmbH
InventorsWolfgang Wagner, Volker Gandert
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Abstract
A sensor element is proposed, particularly a lambda probe for analyzing exhaust gases in internal combustion engines, having a protective device which, at least region-wise, surrounds or covers a sensitive component of the sensor element exposed to a gas. Also provided is that the protective device has an arrangement or is joined to such an arrangement by which the admission of gas to the sensitive component is able to be regulated.
Claims11
A sensor element, comprising:
- a protective device that one of surrounds and covers a sensitive component of the sensor element exposed to a gas;
- and
- an arrangement that is one of included in the protective device and joined to the protective device and by which an admission of the gas to the sensitive component is able to be regulated.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.