US Patent Issued to NGK INSULATORS on March 17 for "Method for manufacturing pillar-shaped honeycomb fired body" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,175, issued on March 17, was assigned to NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Method for manufacturing pillar-shaped honeycomb fired body" was invented by Shota Uno (Nagoya-City, Japan), Yasunori Yamazaki (Nagoya-City, Japan) and Yusuke Hayakawa (Nagoya-City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a pillar-shaped honeycomb fired body including: measuring a firing shrinkage at an end surface of a first pillar-shaped honeycomb firing body at every predetermined angle for one round based on a portion that has been located at the center of a die when a green body passes through the die, obtaining a second pilla...