US Patent Issued to NGK INSULATORS on Aug. 12 for "Honeycomb structure and exhaust gas purifying device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,852, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Honeycomb structure and exhaust gas purifying device" was invented by Kazuya Hosoda (Toyoake, Japan), Takafumi Kimata (Nagoya, Japan) and Yunie Izumi (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pillar shaped honeycomb structure includes: an outer peripheral wall; and porous partition walls disposed on an inner side of the outer peripheral wall, the partition walls defining a plurality of cells, each of the cells extending from one end face to other end face to form a flow path, wherein the cells include a plurality of wire pieces made of a magnetic sub...