US Patent Issued to NGK INSULATORS on March 25 for "Honeycomb structure, exhaust gas purification catalyst, and exhaust gas purification system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,574, issued on March 25, was assigned to NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Honeycomb structure, exhaust gas purification catalyst, and exhaust gas purification system" was invented by Shuichi Ichikawa (Nagoya, Japan), Takuya Ishihara (Nagoya, Japan), Yukio Miyairi (Nagoya, Japan) and Masaaki Masuda (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pillar shaped honeycomb structure for induction heating, the honeycomb structure being made of ceramics and including: an outer peripheral wall; and a partition wall disposed on an inner side of the outer peripheral wall, the partition wall defining a plurality of cells, each of the cell...