US Patent Issued to NGK INSULATORS on Jan. 28 for "Honeycomb structure and exhaust gas purifying device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,526, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Honeycomb structure and exhaust gas purifying device" was invented by Takafumi Kimata (Nagoya, Japan), Yukio Miyairi (Nagoya, Japan), Masaaki Masuda (Nagoya, Japan) and Kazuya Hosoda (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pillar shaped honeycomb structure, including: an outer peripheral wall; and a porous partition wall disposed inside the outer peripheral wall, the a porous partition wall defining a plurality of cells, each of the cells extending from one end face to other end face to form a flow path, wherein a surface of the porous partition wal...