US Patent Issued to NGK INSULATORS on Feb. 17 for "Method for manufacturing ceramic product containing silicon carbide" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,667, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Method for manufacturing ceramic product containing silicon carbide" was invented by Yoshiyuki Kamei (Nagoya, Japan), Chikashi Ihara (Nagoya, Japan), Masato Shimada (Nagoya, Japan) and Kazuhi Matsumoto (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a ceramic product containing silicon carbide, including a step of firing a formed body of a green body containing silicon carbide by transporting the formed body from an inlet to an outlet of a continuous furnace, wherein the continuous furnace includes the inlet, a heating zone, a cooli...