US Patent Issued to NGK INSULATORS on Jan. 13 for "Honeycomb structure and exhaust gas purifying device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,705, issued on Jan. 13, 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), Yunie Izumi (Nisshin, Japan) and Takuya Nakashima (Nagoya, 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 penetrating from one end face to other end face to form a flow path, wherein at least one cell of the cells ...