A
limiting current type gas sensor (100), wherein the gas sensor (100) includes a sensor element (101) formed from an
oxygen ion conductive
solid electrolyte (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), the gas sensor (100) being capable of indicating a
NOx concentration in a measurement gas, the sensor element (101) including: a gas inlet (10) into which the measurement gas is introduced from the outside; a first
interior space (20) connected to the gas inlet (10) at a predetermined
diffusion resistance; a second
interior space (40) connected to the first
interior space (20) at a predetermined
diffusion resistance; a main pump
cell (21) which is an electrochemical pump
cell consisting of an inner pump
electrode (22) including one or two unit
electrode parts (22a, 22b) and facing the first inner space (20), an outer pump
electrode (23) provided on a surface of the sensor element (101), and the
solid electrolyte (6) located between the inner pump electrode (22) and the outer pump electrode (23); a measuring electrode (44) facing the second inner space (40) and covered with a porous protective film (45) providing a predetermined
diffusion resistance, the measuring electrode (44) serving as a reduction catalyst for
NOx; an
atmospheric air introduction layer (48) introduced into the
atmospheric air from outside the sensor element (101) as a reference gas; a
reference electrode (42) covered with the
atmospheric air introduction layer (48); and a measuring pump
cell (41) which is an electrochemical pump cell consisting of the measuring electrode (44), the outer pump electrode (23) and the
solid electrolyte (6) located between the measuring electrode (44) and the outer pump electrode (23); where when the inner pumping electrode (22) includes the two of the unit electrode parts (22a, 22b), the two unit electrode parts (22a, 22b) are arranged to face each other, the main pump cell (21) pumps out
oxygen in the measurement gas introduced into the first inner space (20) by applying a predetermined main pump
voltage (Vp0) between the inner pump electrode (22) and the outer pump electrode (23), so that the
oxygen partial pressure of the measurement gas in the first inner space (20) is reduced, the measuring pump cell (41) pumps out oxygen produced by a reduction of
NOx in the measuring gas reaching the vicinity of the measuring electrode (44) by applying a predetermined pump
voltage (Vp2) between the inner pump electrode (22) and the outer pump electrode (23), wherein the gas sensor (100) further comprises: a concentration specification element (110) that specifies a concentration of NOx based on a magnitude of a NOx current (Ip2) flowing between the measuring electrode (44) and the outer pumping electrode (23) in the measuring pumping cell (41), a
diffusion resistance from the gas inlet (10) to the first interior space (20) which is 200 cm-1 or greater and 1000 cm-1 or less, and when the first interior space (20) has a space length (L1) as a size in a longitudinal direction of the sensor element (101), a space thickness (t1) as a size in a thickness direction of the sensor element (101), and a space width (w1) as a size in a width direction perpendicular to both the longitudinal direction and the thickness direction, and the unit electrode part (22a, 22b) has an electrode length (L2) as a size in the longitudinal direction and an electrode width (w2) as a size in the width direction, the space length (L1) is 2.5 mm or greater and 10 mm or less, the space thickness (t1) is 50 µm or greater and 300 µm or less, a ratio of the electrode length (L2) relative to the space length (L1) is 0.5 or more and 1.0 or less and a ratio of the electrode width (w2) relative to the space width (w1) is 0.5 or more and 1.0 or less.