US Patent Issued to NGK INSULATORS, Toyota Jidosha on March 11 for "Electrically heating support and exhaust gas purification device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,510, issued on March 11, was assigned to NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Electrically heating support and exhaust gas purification device" was invented by Takashi Takada (Nagoya, Japan) and Shinobu Shimasaki (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrically heating support according to the present invention includes: a ceramic honeycomb structure, the honeycomb structure including an outer peripheral wall and a partition wall arranged on an inner side of the outer peripheral wall, the partition wall defining a plurality of cells each extending from one end face to other end f...