US Patent Issued to NGK INSULATORS, NGK ADREC on Dec. 16 for "Method for manufacturing metal-impregnated ceramic fired body" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,337, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan) and NGK ADREC Co. LTD. (Mitake, Japan).

"Method for manufacturing metal-impregnated ceramic fired body" was invented by Sora Goto (Komaki, Japan), Shuhei Kuno (Komaki, Japan) and Hiroomi Matsuba (Mizunami, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a metal-impregnated ceramic fired body includes: a step 1 of contacting a ceramic formed body with a metal in a form of granules, a step 2 of heating the metal at or above a melting point thereof in a state where the metal in the form of granules is in contact with the ceramic formed body so th...