ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,469, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Method for manufacturing cylindrical honeycomb fired body" was invented by Yasunori Yamazaki (Nagoya, Japan), Kazuya Kageyama (Nagoya, Japan) and Yusuke Hayakawa (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a cylindrical honeycomb fired body including: preparing a cylindrical honeycomb formed body; obtaining a cylindrical honeycomb dried body by drying the cylindrical honeycomb formed body; calculating predetermined parameters (EAVE1, EAVE2, EAVE3 and EAVE4) from average values of distance between a center of gravity position O...