Patents Examined by Mary I Omori
  • Patent number: 11339099
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure including: a honeycomb structure body having porous partition walls which define a plurality of cells extending from an inflow end face to an outflow end face to form through channels for a fluid, and a first circumferential wall which is disposed in at least a part of a circumference of the partition walls, and a second circumferential wall disposed to surround an outer side of the honeycomb structure body, wherein the honeycomb structure body does not have an interface between the partition walls and the first circumferential wall, and in a face perpendicular to an extending direction of the cells, a maximum thickness of the first circumferential wall is from 0.1 to 0.3 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Kashiwagi, Yasunori Yamazaki, Hideyuki Toyoshima, Hirotaka Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11312661
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure including a honeycomb portion having porous partition walls extending from an inflow end face to an outflow end face, an outermost peripheral wall, and a pair of electrode layers on a side surface of the honeycomb portion. Each electrode layer extends in a direction of the cells. One electrode layer is disposed on a side opposite to the other electrode layer across a center of the honeycomb portion in a cross section orthogonal to the extending direction of the cells. The honeycomb structure portion includes first cells opened on the inflow side and plugged on the outflow side, and second cells opened on the outflow side and plugged on the inflow side. A middle of each length of the pair of electrode layers is closer to the outflow side than a middle position of a length of the honeycomb portion in the extending direction of the cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kasai, Yukinari Shibagaki
  • Patent number: 11306374
    Abstract: Provided is a high-strength aluminum alloy including 2.0 to 13.0% by weight of copper (Cu), 0.4 to 4.0% by weight of manganese (Mn), 0.4 to 2.0% by weight of iron (Fe), 6.0 to 10.0% by weight of silicon (Si), greater than 0.0% by weight and 7.0 or less % by weight of zinc (Zn), greater than 0.0% by weight and 2.0 or less % by weight of magnesium (Mg), greater than 0.0% by weight and 1.0 or less % by weight of chromium (Cr), greater than 0.0% by weight and 3.0 or less % by weight of nickel (Ni), greater than 0.0% by weight and 0.05 or less % by weight of production-induced impurities, and the balance of aluminum (Al).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: GAM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Yeol Choi, Byung-Cheol Lee
  • Patent number: 11298913
    Abstract: An impact-absorbing structure that includes a plurality of interconnected cells forming a sheet, each cell having a sidewall and a longitudinal axis. Each cell may be configured to absorb energy through plastic deformation in response to an applied load, and a sidewall of at least one cell may include a geometric perturbation that is oriented in a direction that is not parallel to the longitudinal axis of the cell. The geometric perturbation may reduce the load required to cause plastic deformation of the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: WaveCel, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Bottlang, Jeffrey Bennett
  • Patent number: 11292225
    Abstract: A honeycomb core includes a honeycomb substrate comprised of a number of sheets. A number of traces are printed onto the sheets of the honeycomb substrate. A number of integrated electronic devices are disposed within the honeycomb substrate. The integrated electronic devices are electrically coupled to the traces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Jason Drexler, Xiaoxi Wang, John C. Wilde
  • Patent number: 11285468
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes a honeycomb structure body having porous partition walls, wherein a value of a porosity of the partition wall in a partitioning wall portion between the two cells is defined as a porosity A, a value of a porosity of the partition wall in an intersecting portion that is a region connecting two or more wall portions is defined as a porosity B, a value of A/B obtained by dividing the porosity A by the porosity B is from 0.5 to 0.95, and the porosity A is from 10 to 40%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasushi Kato, Takahiro Kondo, Junki Matsuya
  • Patent number: 11273404
    Abstract: A porous composite includes a porous base material and a porous collection layer formed on the base material. The collection layer has a thickness greater than or equal to 6 ?m. The collection layer has a plurality of large pores, each exposing the surface of the base material. A sum of areas of exposed regions of the base material that are each exposed from each large pore of the plurality of large pores is greater than or equal to 1% of the total area of the collection layer and less than or equal to 30% thereof. This allows the porous composite to achieve a favorable efficiency of collecting particulate matter and to increase the accessible area between the particulate matter and the collection layer and thereby accelerate oxidation of the particulate matter collected by the porous composite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shogo Takeno, Kousuke Ujihara, Yunie Izumi
  • Patent number: 11260383
    Abstract: In a honeycomb structure, porous partition walls are arranged to surround cells extending from an inflow end face of the honeycomb structure body to an outflow end face thereof, intersection points at which the partition walls arranged in a latticed manner in the inflow end face intersect include a first intersection point that is one intersection point, and second intersection points one of which is the other intersection point in the partition wall including the first intersection point, and which are adjacent to the first intersection point, and the inflow end face has concave/convex portions each including the first intersection point as a bottom portion and the peripheral second intersection points of the first intersection point as top portions, or each including the first intersection point as a top portion and the peripheral second intersection points of the first intersection point as bottom portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuya Yuki
  • Patent number: 11261134
    Abstract: A honeycomb formed body containing a ceramics raw material, the honeycomb formed body including: a pillar shaped honeycomb structure portion having a plurality of rectangular cells, the cells being defined by partition walls and extending from a first end face to a second end face to form flow paths; an outer peripheral portion having outer peripheral portions X where the partition walls are covered with an outer peripheral wall; and outer peripheral portions Y where the partition walls are exposed. Each of the outer peripheral portions X includes a tapered portion having a gradually deceasing thickness of the outer peripheral wall toward a boundary portion with an adjacent outer peripheral portion Y. The tapered portion requires a length equal to or more than one time of an average cell pitch in the outer peripheral direction until thickness of the outer peripheral wall is halved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daniel Yukichi Kitaguchi, Kouhei Kato, Shotaro Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11260582
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to additively manufactured (AM) composite structures such as panels for use in transport structures or other mechanized assemblies. An AM core may be optimized for an intended application of a panel. In various embodiments, one or more values such as strength, stiffness, density, energy absorption, ductility, etc. may be optimized in a single AM core to vary across the AM core in one or more directions for supporting expected load conditions. In an embodiment, the expected load conditions may include forces applied to the AM core or corresponding panel from different directions in up to three dimensions. Where the structure is a panel, face sheets may be affixed to respective sides of the core. The AM core may be a custom honeycomb structure. In other embodiments, the face sheets may have custom 3-D profiles formed traditionally or through additive manufacturing to enable structural panels with complex profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: DIVERGENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Broc William TenHouten, Thomas Samuel Bowden, Jr., Jon Paul Gunner
  • Patent number: 11260384
    Abstract: A honeycomb filter includes a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure having porous partition walls provided, surrounding a plurality of cells which serve as fluid through channels extending from an inflow end face to an outflow end face, and a porous plugging portion provided either at an end on the inflow end face or the outflow end face of the cells, wherein the plugging portion is composed of a porous material, the honeycomb structure has a central region and a circumferential region, and a ratio of an area of the circumferential region with respect to that of the central region ranges from 0.1 to 0.5, porosity of a central plugging portion in the central region is lower than that of a circumferential plugging portion in the circumferential region, and the porosity of the central plugging portions ranges from 60% to 68%, and that of the circumferential plugging portions ranges from 70% to 85%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventor: Fumihiko Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 11260995
    Abstract: A multi-layer shell structure for a vehicle and method of providing a multi-layer shell structure for a vehicle. The multi-layer structure includes a thermal protection system (TPS) layer, a structural layer connected to the TPS layer, and a high tensile fabric barrier layer bonded to the structural layer. Room-temperature-vulcanizing silicone may be used to bond the TPS layer to the structural layer and bond the high tensile fabric barrier layer to the structural layer. The high tensile fabric barrier layer may create a seal on the structural layer. The multi-layer shell structure may include inner shell enclosing a passenger and/or cargo compartment and an annulus between the inner shell and the high tensile fabric barrier layer. The high tensile fabric barrier layer may prohibit entry of gas into the annulus in the event a hole is created through a portion of the multi-layer shell structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventor: Mitchell C. Bland
  • Patent number: 11192322
    Abstract: What is presented is a unit cell comprising a cellular geometry that comprises cell walls and cell edges arranged into a combination of a cubic cell geometry and a tetrahedral cell geometry arranged to have a coincident central vertex. The cubic cell geometry comprises three orthogonal cell faces that intersect at its central vertex. The tetrahedral cell geometry comprises an arrangement of eight tetrahedral cells that share its central vertex such that each tetrahedral cell shares three coincident edges with three other tetrahedral cells in a cubically symmetric arrangement. The tetrahedral cell geometry is combined with the cubic cell geometry such that all vertices of the tetrahedral cell geometry are coincident with the vertices of the cubic cell geometry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Nama Development LLC
    Inventor: Jonathan Berger
  • Patent number: 11167279
    Abstract: A plugged honeycomb structure, including: a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure body including porous partition walls; and plugging portions disposed at open ends of cells at an inflow end face side or at an outflow end face side, wherein a pore diameter corresponding to the cumulative pore volume of 10% is D10, a pore diameter corresponding to the cumulative pore volume of 30% is D30, a pore diameter corresponding to the cumulative pore volume of 50% is D50, a pore diameter corresponding to the cumulative pore volume of 70% is D70, a pore diameter corresponding to the cumulative pore volume of 90% is D90, the pore diameter D10 is 6 ?m or more, the pore diameter D90 is 58 ?m or less, and the plugged honeycomb structure satisfies the relationship of Expression (1). 0.35?(D70?D30)/D50?1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tatsuyuki Kuki
  • Patent number: 11149613
    Abstract: Exhaust gas treatment articles and methods of manufacturing the same are disclosed herein. An exhaust gas treatment article includes a porous ceramic honeycomb body with multiple channel walls defining cell channels that extend in an axial direction and an outer peripheral surface that extends in the axial direction. The exhaust gas treatment article further includes a metal layer that surrounds the porous ceramic honeycomb body and that is in direct contact with at least a portion of the outer peripheral surface of the porous ceramic honeycomb body. The metal layer includes a joint. The exhaust gas treatment article includes a shim that is located under the joint and that is in direct contact with at least a portion of the outer peripheral surface of the porous ceramic honeycomb body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Rajesh Yogesh Bhargava, Dana Craig Bookbinder, Curtis Richard Cowles, Jacob George, Jason Thomas Harris, Seth Thomas Nickerson, Pushkar Tandon
  • Patent number: 11135763
    Abstract: An assembly formed by additive manufacturing comprises a top face sheet, a bottom face sheet, and a core structure between the top face sheet and the bottom face sheet, the core structure comprising a plurality of cells, wherein structural elements of the core structure defining the plurality of cells exhibit at least one electrical property in at least one direction varying from at least one electrical property in a second, different direction and at least one structural property in at least one direction varying from at least one structural property in a second, different direction, wherein at least a portion of the structural elements comprises a radar absorbing structure, the structural elements comprising a matrix material and at least one additive dispersed in or on the matrix material. Related radar absorbing structures and related methods of fabricating the radar absorbing structures are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Peter A. Beyerle, Kenneth Johnson, Brett A. Poor, Talbot P. Thrasher
  • Patent number: 11103862
    Abstract: A honeycomb filter includes a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure having porous partition walls provided, surrounding a plurality of cells which serve as fluid through channels extending from an inflow end face to an outflow end face, and porous plugging portions provided either at the ends on the inflow end face or the outflow end face of the cells, wherein the plugging portions are composed of a porous material, the honeycomb structure has a central region and a circumferential region and a ratio of an area of the circumferential region with respect to that of the central region ranges from 0.1 to 0.5, and a plugging length L1 in the cell extending direction of a central plugging portion in the central region is smaller than a plugging length L2 of a circumferential plugging portion in the circumferential region, L1 ranges from 3 to 6 mm, and L2 from 7 to 9 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventor: Fumihiko Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 11047038
    Abstract: A metallization for a thin-film component includes at least one layer composed of an Mo-based alloy containing Al and Ti and usual impurities. A process for producing a metallization includes providing at least one sputtering target, depositing at least one layer of an Mo-based alloy containing Al and Ti and usual impurities, and structuring the metallization by using at least one photolithographic process and at least one subsequent etching step. A sputtering target is composed of an Mo-based alloy containing Al and Ti and usual impurities. A process for producing a sputtering target composed of an Mo-based alloy includes providing a powder mixture containing Mo and also Al and Ti and cold gas spraying (CGS) of the powder mixture onto a suitable support material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Plansee SE
    Inventors: Harald Koestenbauer, Judith Koestenbauer, Gerhard Leichtfried, Joerg Winkler, Moo Sung Hwang, Martin Kathrein, Elisabeth Eidenberger
  • Patent number: 11033849
    Abstract: The honeycomb structure includes a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure body that includes a porous partition wall. When the thickness (?m) of the partition wall is defined as T1 and, among pores formed in the partition wall, the value of an average pore diameter (?m) of specific pores whose pore diameters measured by a mercury press-in method are 20 to 100 ?m is defined as D(20 to 100), T1/D(20 to 100) that is a value obtained by dividing T1 by D(20 to 100) is not less than 2.4, a ratio of a pore volume of the specific pores to an overall pore volume of the partition wall is 5 to 45%, and a ratio of a pore volume of large pores whose pore diameters are not less than 100 ?m to the overall pore volume of the partition wall is not more than 5%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ishioka, Hirotaka Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11027269
    Abstract: A plugged honeycomb structure, including: a plurality of honeycomb segments, a bonding layer and a circumferential wall disposed to surround circumference of a honeycomb segment bonded body where the plurality of honeycomb segments are bonded, wherein in the bonding layer, the bonding layer at a part that bonds the honeycomb segments disposed in contact with the circumferential wall is a circumferential bonding layer, and the bonding layer at a part that bonds the honeycomb segment including a center of gravity in a cross section orthogonal to the extending direction of cells of the honeycomb segment bonded body or at a position closest to the center of gravity and another honeycomb segment adjacent to the honeycomb segment is a center bonding layer, and a bonding strength A1 of the circumferential bonding layer is larger than a bonding strength A2 of the center bonding layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuya Yuki