US Patent Issued to NGK INSULATORS on Aug. 25 for "Honeycomb structure, electrically heating support, and exhaust gas purification device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,374, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya-City, Japan).

"Honeycomb structure, electrically heating support, and exhaust gas purification device" was invented by Naoki Sakai (Nagoya-City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A honeycomb structure includes: a honeycomb structure portion including: an outer peripheral wall; a partition wall disposed on an inner side of the outer peripheral wall, the 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 the outer peripheral wall and/or the cells include at least one slit contain...