US Patent Issued to NGK INSULATORS on May 19 for "Ceramic plate" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,466, issued on May 19, was assigned to NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Ceramic plate" was invented by Takahiro Ando (Nagoya, Japan), Shinsuke Yuda (Nagoya, Japan), Koichi Yoshino (Nagoya, Japan) and Akiyoshi Hattori (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a ceramic plate including the ceramic substrate containing aluminum oxide and/or aluminum nitride; the inner electrode embedded inside the ceramic substrate containing an electrode base material, a thermal expansion coefficient modifier, and Ti; and wherein the ceramic substrate has a Ti diffusion region in which Ti is diffused around the inner electrode."

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