US Patent Issued to NGK INSULATORS on Feb. 10 for "Pillar-shaped honeycomb structure and method for manufacturing same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,702, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Pillar-shaped honeycomb structure and method for manufacturing same" was invented by Koichi Sendo (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pillar-shaped honeycomb structure filter including a plurality of first cells and a plurality of second cells, the first cells and the second cells being alternately arranged adjacent to each other with a porous partition wall interposed therebetween, wherein a ceramic porous film, in which an average film thickness T (unit: micro metre) is 2 to 50 micro metre, a porosity P (unit: %) is 65 to 90%, and the average ...