US Patent Issued to NGK INSULATORS on Aug. 12 for "Inspection method and inspection system for pillar-shaped honeycomb structure made of ceramic" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,849, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Inspection method and inspection system for pillar-shaped honeycomb structure made of ceramic" was invented by Takafumi Terahai (Nagoya, Japan), Ryota Kurahashi (Nagoya, Japan) and Yoshihiro Sato (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inspection system for carrying out an inspection method for a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure, the inspection system including: a robot arm with a robot hand at a tip of the robot arm, the robot hand comprising a pair of gripping surfaces capable of gripping the pillar-shaped honeycomb structure from the first end...