US Patent Issued to NGK INSULATORS on Nov. 3 for "Heater element for vehicle compartment heating and method for using same, and heater for vehicle compartment heating" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,001, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Heater element for vehicle compartment heating and method for using same, and heater for vehicle compartment heating" was invented by Yukio Miyairi (Nagoya, Japan), Masaaki Masuda (Nagoya, Japan), Yoshifumi Takagi (Chiryu, Japan), Yunie Izumi (Nisshin, Japan) and Toru Hayase (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heater element for vehicle compartment heating in a vehicle, including a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure portion having: an outer peripheral side wall; and partition walls disposed inside the outer peripheral side wall, the partition walls...