ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,685, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Dielectric drying method and dielectric drying device for ceramic formed bodies, and method for producing ceramic structures" was invented by Yoshimasa Fuma (Ichinomiya, Japan), Yuichi Tajima (Nagoya, Japan), Yoshimasa Kondo (Nagoya, Japan) and Kensuke Okumura (Chiryu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dielectric drying method for ceramic formed bodies includes drying a plurality of ceramic formed bodies placed side by side in an arrangement direction Y perpendicular to a conveying direction X on an upper surface of a drying table by conveying the cera...