US Patent Issued to NGK INSULATORS on Oct. 20 for "Honeycomb structure, exhaust gas purification device, and production method for honeycomb structure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,491, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Honeycomb structure, exhaust gas purification device, and production method for honeycomb structure" was invented by Shuichi Ichikawa (Nagoya-City, Japan), Yukio Miyairi (Nagoya-City, Japan), Masaaki Masuda (Nagoya-City, Japan) and Takuya Ishihara (Tsushima City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A honeycomb structure including: an outer peripheral wall; a partition wall disposed on an inner side of the outer peripheral wall, the partition wall defining a plurality of cells, each of the cells extending from one end face to other end face to form a flow p...