US Patent Issued to NGK INSULATORS on Nov. 3 for "Honeycomb structure" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,654, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya-City, Japan).

"Honeycomb structure" was invented by Tetsuya Makino (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A honeycomb structure body having a partition wall surrounding cells which serve as fluid through channels extending from a first end face to a second end face, wherein the partition wall is a porous body having pores that communicate adjacent cells separated by the partition wall are formed, a ratio (L/T) of a through channel length L (micro metre) of the pore in the thickness direction of the partition wall to a thickness T (micro metre) of the partition w...