Patents Assigned to NGK Insulators
  • Publication number: 20230311111
    Abstract: A honeycomb filter includes: a honeycomb structure having porous partition walls disposed so as to surround cells, and plugging portions disposed at any one of ends on the inflow end face and the ends on the outflow end face, of cells. In a cross section perpendicular to an extending direction of the cells, a thickness T1 of the partition walls in a central portion including a center of gravity O of the cross section is 0.17 to 0.32 mm, a thickness T2 of the partition walls in an outer peripheral portion is 70 to 90% of the thickness T1, and the outer peripheral portion extends from an outer peripheral edge of the cross section of honeycomb structure by 6 to 12% of a radius r which is from the center of gravity O of the cross section to the outer peripheral edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumihiko YOSHIOKA, Yudai KURIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230317432
    Abstract: In a wafer placement table, a cooling plate having a refrigerant flow channel is provided on a bottom surface side of a ceramic plate incorporating an electrode. A gas intermediate passage that is a horizontal space is provided parallel to a wafer placement surface at a location closer to the wafer placement surface than the refrigerant flow channel in the wafer placement table and has an overlapping part that overlaps the refrigerant flow channel along the refrigerant flow channel in plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya KUNO, Seiya INOUE
  • Publication number: 20230311110
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure including a honeycomb structure portion made of ceramics having an outer peripheral wall and partition walls disposed inside the outer peripheral wall and partitioning a plurality of cells; and a pair of electrode layers provided on an outer surface of the outer peripheral wall; wherein in a cross-section orthogonal to a direction in which the cells extend, assuming a coordinate value of a center of gravity O is 0, and a coordinate value of an inner peripheral surface of the outer peripheral wall is 1.00 R, an average value P1A of a porosity (%) of the partition walls in a range of coordinate values of 0 to 0.50 R and an average value P2A of a porosity (%) of the partition walls in a range of coordinate values of 0.50 R to 1.00 R satisfy a relationship of 1<P2A/P1A.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventor: Taro OSADA
  • Publication number: 20230311398
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a cylindrical honeycomb fired body including: preparing a cylindrical honeycomb formed body; obtaining a cylindrical honeycomb dried body by drying the cylindrical honeycomb formed body; calculating predetermined parameters (EAVE1, EAVE2, EAVE3 and EAVE4) from average values of distance between a center of gravity position O and an outer peripheral contour in a plurality of predetermined angle ranges; specifying a minimum value of the predetermined parameters; obtaining a cylindrical honeycomb fired body by placing the cylindrical honeycomb dried body on a shelf plate and firing it while passing it through a continuous firing furnace, such that the direction in which the cells of the cylindrical honeycomb dried body extend vertically, and a particular location on the outer peripheral side surface determined according to the minimum value is positioned at the front.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasunori YAMAZAKI, Kazuya KAGEYAMA, Yusuke HAYAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20230311048
    Abstract: A honeycomb filter comprising a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure body having a porous partition wall and a plugging portion, wherein a thickness of the partition wall is 0.217 mm or less, a porosity of the partition wall is 57 to 63%, an average pore diameter of the partition wall is 6 to 14 ?m, a number per unit area of pores which exist at a surface of the partition wall and which have equivalent circle opening diameters exceeding 3 ?m is 800 to 1500 /mm2, an average equivalent circle opening diameter of pores which exist at a surface of the partition wall and which have equivalent circle opening diameters exceeding 3 ?m is 6.7 to 12.5 ?m, and in a pore diameter distribution of the partition wall, D10 is 3.0 to 7.0 ?m, D90 is 13.0 to 27.0 ?m, and (Log (D90)-Log (D10))/Log (D50) is 0.75 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yudai KURIMOTO, Fumihiko YOSHIOKA
  • Publication number: 20230311112
    Abstract: A pillar-shaped honeycomb structure includes an outer peripheral side wall, and a plurality of partition walls partitioning a plurality of cells, wherein an average pore diameter of the partition walls measured by a mercury intrusion method specified in JIS R1655: 2003 is 3 to 10 ?m, and when a cross-section of the plurality of partition walls is observed with an X-ray microscope and a porosity (%) is measured in a thickness direction from one surface to the other surface of each partition wall, assuming PAVE is an average porosity of each partition wall, P1 MIN is a minimum porosity from the one surface to a thickness of 5% of the partition wall, and P2MIN is a minimum porosity from the other surface to a thickness of 5% of the partition wall, 40% PAVE ?70%, and {(P1 MIN+P2MIN)/2} /PAVE ?0.9 are satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuji MURAMATSU, Yasuhiro SHIGA
  • Publication number: 20230311109
    Abstract: A pillar-shaped honeycomb structure including an outer peripheral side wall, and a plurality of partition walls disposed on an inner peripheral side of the outer peripheral side wall, the plurality of partition walls partitioning a plurality of cells forming flow paths from a first end surface to a second end surface, wherein an average pore diameter of the partition walls measured by a mercury porosimeter is 10 ?m or less, and when a cross section of the plurality of partition walls is observed with an X-ray microscope and porosities (%) of each partition wall is measured in a thickness direction from one surface to the other surface of each partition wall, an average porosity of each partition wall is 40 to 70%, and a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of the porosity of each partition wall is 11% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro SHIGA, Shuji MURAMATSU, Koji MOTOKI
  • Publication number: 20230313721
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure including an electrically conductive honeycomb structure portion, comprising an outer peripheral wall, and partition walls disposed inside the outer peripheral wall and partitioning a plurality of cells forming flow paths from one end surface to the other end surface; and a pair of electrode layers provided on an outer surface of the outer peripheral wall so as to face each other across a central axis of the honeycomb structure portion; wherein a coefficient of linear expansion of the honeycomb structure portion measured according to JIS R1618:2002 when temperature is changed from 40° C. to 300 ° C. is 4.1×10?6/° C. or more, and the coefficient of linear expansion of the honeycomb structure portion measured according to JIS R1618:2002 when the temperature is changed from 300 ° C. to 800 ° C. is 4.2×10?6/° C. or more and 4.8×10?6/° C. or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventor: Mako HATTORI
  • Publication number: 20230311049
    Abstract: A honeycomb filter includes a honeycomb structure body that has porous partition walls disposed so as to surround cells, and plugging portions that are disposed at any one of the ends on the inflow end face and the ends on the outflow end face. A cross-sectional shape of each of the inflow cells is octagonal and a cross-sectional shape of each of the outflow cells is quadrangular. An area ratio (S1/S2) of a cross-sectional area S2 of each of the outflow cells to a cross-sectional area S1 of each of the inflow cells is 1.40 to 2.20. The plugging portions have convex portions that protrude from the end faces on which the plugging portions are disposed, toward the outer sides, and have a protruding height H of 0.3 to 3.0 mm, and the plugging portions have a plugging depth L of 4.0 to 9.0 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumihiko YOSHIOKA, Yudai KURIMOTO
  • Patent number: 11774398
    Abstract: A sensor element for detecting a specific gas concentration in a measurement-object gas includes: an element body including an oxygen-ion-conductive solid electrolyte layer, and having inside a measurement-object gas flow portion that introduces and flows a measurement-object gas and a reference gas chamber used to store a reference gas that is a reference for detecting a specific gas concentration; a reference electrode disposed in the reference gas chamber; and an electrically conductive portion which includes a reference electrode terminal and a reference electrode lead portion that provides electrical continuity between the reference electrode terminal and the reference electrode. The reference gas chamber is provided inside the sensor element in an isolated form, and at least part of the electrically conductive portion is densely formed so as to block movement of oxygen between the reference gas chamber and the outside of the sensor element via the electrically conductive portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Watanabe, Takayuki Sekiya
  • Patent number: 11773022
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a plugged honeycomb structure including a plugging material preparing step of mixing a ceramic raw material, a pore former, a thickener, an organic binder, a dispersing agent, and water and preparing the plugging material which is slurried, to form the plugging portions, wherein the plugging material preparing step includes: a powder mixing step of mixing the ceramic raw material, the pore former, the organic binder and the dispersing agent each of which is constituted of powder, at predetermined blend ratios, a thickener mixing step of adding and mixing the thickener to a powder mixture obtained by the powder mixing step, and a kneading step of adding the water to a thickener added mixture obtained by the thickener mixing step, to perform kneading.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Shungo Nagai, Hiroaki Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11773762
    Abstract: A tubular member for an exhaust gas treatment device according to at least one embodiment of the present invention includes: a tubular main body made of a metal; and an insulating layer formed at least on an inner peripheral surface of the tubular main body. The insulating layer contains glass containing a crystalline substance, and the insulating layer has a porosity of from 1% to 12%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Oshita, Kisuke Yamamoto, Takahiro Tomita
  • Patent number: 11772983
    Abstract: A titania porous body is entirely formed of titania. The titania porous body includes a titania framework, first pores, and second pores. The titania framework forms a three-dimensional network structure. The first pores are opening portions of the three-dimensional structure. The second pores are disposed in a surface of the titania framework. Such a titania porous body is also referred to as a titania monolith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignees: NGK INSULATORS, LTD., EMAUS KYOTO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazunari Yamada, Hideki Shimizu, Norio Ishizuka, Toshikazu Oda, Kyoko Konishi
  • Publication number: 20230302440
    Abstract: A metal ratio inspection method for inspecting a metal ratio of a thermally sprayed composite material containing at least one metal and at least one ceramic, the method includes: an imaging step (step S11) of imaging the thermally sprayed composite material while irradiating the thermally sprayed composite material with imaging light; and an estimating step (step S12) of estimating a metal ratio of the thermally sprayed composite material based on a luminance distribution of the image of the thermally sprayed composite material obtained in the imaging step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Rina YOKOI, Takashi NORO, Takamichi SATO
  • Publication number: 20230302524
    Abstract: A method for producing a heat conductive member includes the steps of: preparing a hollow type heat recovery member having: an inner peripheral surface and an outer peripheral surface in an axial direction; and a first end face and a second end face in a direction orthogonal to the axial direction; inserting an inner cylindrical member into a hollow portion formed in an inner region of the inner peripheral surface; and subjecting the inner cylindrical member to plastic working, and fitting at least a part of the inner cylindrical member to at least a part of one or more selected from the inner peripheral surface, the first end face, and the second end face of the heat recovery member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto YOSHIHARA, Tatsuo KAWAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230309197
    Abstract: A heater includes: a first cordierite substrate; a glass portion provided on the first cordierite substrate; and an electrically heating portion embedded in the glass portion, wherein the glass portion comprises MgO, Al2O3 and SiO2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio MIYAIRI, Masaaki MASUDA, Koji KUZUTANI, Shinzou HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230302523
    Abstract: A method for producing a shrink-fitted member by arranging a hollow type pillar shaped ceramic body inside a metal pipe and shrink-fitting them, the hollow type pillar shaped ceramic body including: an outer peripheral surface and an inner peripheral surface in a direction substantially parallel to an axial direction; and a first end face and a second end face in a direction substantially perpendicular to the axial direction. The method includes arranging the hollow type pillar shaped ceramic body inside the metal pipe while gripping the hollow type pillar shaped ceramic body using a chuck mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumitaka TAKEUCHI, Shuhei KUNO, Seiya SAWADA
  • Publication number: 20230307625
    Abstract: There is provided a lithium composite oxide which is composed of a lithium composite oxide having a layered rock salt structure containing Li, Ni, Co and Mn. The lithium composite oxide sintered plate has a porosity of 20 to 40%, a mean pore diameter of 3.5 ?m or larger and an interfacial length per 1 ?m2 of unit cross-sectional area of 0.45 ?m or shorter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Tsutomu NISHIZAKI, Mizuki HIROSE, Yoshimasa KOBAYASHI, Yuji KATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20230305192
    Abstract: There is provided an EUV transmissive membrane having an EUV transmittance of 80.0% or more at a wavelength of 13.5 nm and including a main layer having an IR emissivity of 2.0% or more at a wavelength of 2 µm and a protective layer that covers at least one side of the main layer and has an IR transmittance of 70% or more at a wavelength of 2 µm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Toshikatsu KASHIWAYA, Atsuo KONDO, Hiroki CHAEN, Takashi TANIMURA, Naoki GORIKI
  • Publication number: 20230304429
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes: a honeycomb structure portion 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 path, wherein the outer peripheral wall and/or the cells include at least one slit containing a filling material layer made of a filling material, wherein the filling material layer has pores, and wherein the pores having a pore diameter of 90 ?m or more account for 30% by volume or more of all the pores contained in the filling material layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventor: Naoki SAKAI