Abstract: A composite body including a substrate and a forming portion which is composed of a composite phase containing a perovskite oxide and a metal oxide different from the perovskite oxide and which is formed on the substrate. The composite body may be a composite body manufactured by a manufacturing method including a forming step of firing in an oxidizing atmosphere, a laminated body in which an inorganic raw material powder containing a compound powder and a metal powder is disposed on a substrate so as to form a forming portion composed of a composite phase containing a perovskite oxide and a metal oxide different from the perovskite oxide on the substrate.

Abstract: A composite structure that includes a plurality of components coupled together forming a joint, wherein the plurality of components are oriented such that a gap is defined at least partially therebetween. The composite structure also includes a filler structure positioned in the gap. The filler structure includes a honeycomb core including side walls that define a plurality of core cells, and an amount of resin within each of the plurality of core cells. The honeycomb core side walls facilitate restricting crack propagation in the resin from spreading between adjacent pairs of the plurality of core cells.

Abstract: A honeycomb structure body has main cells having a tubular shape and main cell walls. Each main cell is surrounded by the main cell walls. A virtual base structure body has base cell walls and base cells. The honeycomb structure body has an improved structure obtained by modifying a structure of the virtual base structure body. Each base intersecting point, at which base cell walls intersect, is determined by a polar coordinate (r, ?) using a radius vector r and a deflection angle ?. Each main intersecting point is formed on a polar coordinate (r?, ?) using the deflection angle ? and a main radius vector r? which is obtained by multiplying the radius vector r and a constant magnification without changing the deflection angle ?. A cell density varying section varies its cell density and is formed in at least a part of the honeycomb structure body.

Abstract: A composite body including a substrate and a forming portion which is composed of a composite phase containing a perovskite oxide and a metal oxide different from the perovskite oxide and which is formed on the substrate. The composite body may be a composite body manufactured by a manufacturing method including a forming step of firing in an oxidizing atmosphere, a laminated body in which an inorganic raw material powder containing a compound powder and a metal powder is disposed on a substrate so as to form a forming portion composed of a composite phase containing a perovskite oxide and a metal oxide different from the perovskite oxide on the substrate.

Abstract: A thermal insulation panel is consist of an impermeable barrier and backing, a surface of low emissivity, an adhesive, a mixture of phononic cocrystals at both sides, and a support material in a honeycomb structure in between two sides. The panel reduces heat transfer and has an overall thermal conductivity in order of 10?3 w/(m·K), and a density of 20-100 kg/m3. The panel can be cut to any sizes to meet requirements for installation, and can be stacked or piled up to meet the requirements of thickness and thermal resistance in application.

Abstract: A method and production of composite foils and thin copper foils peeled from said composite copper foils is disclosed for use in forming printed circuit boards (PCB). Either the composite foil or only the thin copper foil can be laminated to a polymer layer to form the printed circuit board, with the step of separating the thin copper foil from the composite copper foil is performed subsequent to said laminating step.

Abstract: A honeycomb structure body has a cylindrical outer peripheral wall, partition walls and cells. The cells are surrounded by the partition walls. In a radial cross section of the honeycomb structure body, the cells is divided into cell density sections having different cell densities formed from a central section to the outer peripheral wall. A boundary wall is formed between two cell density sections. Each cell density section has boundary cells and interior cells. The boundary cells are in contact with the boundary wall. The interior cells are not in contact with the boundary wall. In the radial cross section of the honeycomb structure body, an inscribed circle of each of the boundary cells has a diameter of not less than 0.5 mm. Further, an inscribed circle of an interior cell adjacent to the boundary cell also has a diameter of not less than 0.5 mm.

Abstract: Methods for making a ceramic or glass-ceramic include spray-drying a mixture comprising batch materials to form agglomerated particles; bringing the agglomerated particles into contact with a plasma for a residence time sufficient to form fused particles; and annealing the fused particles at a temperature and for a time sufficient to form ceramic or glass-ceramic particles. The methods can be used to produce fused glass particles, ceramic or glass-ceramic particles, and ceramic or glass-ceramic articles, such as ceramic honeycombs.

Abstract: A joined body includes a first member, a second member having a high coefficient of thermal expansion as compared to that of the first member, and a joint portion which at least partially includes a mixed layer containing metal of a transition metal and an oxide of the transition metal and which joins the first member and the second member. In this joint portion, a first layer containing a first oxide of a transition metal, a second layer containing a second oxide of a transition metal having a low valence as compared to that of the first oxide, and the mixed layer containing metal of a transition metal and an oxide thereof preferably are formed so as to form a multilayer structure.

Abstract: A composition for allowing marking of a product, the composition comprising: (a) a volatile solvent; (b) a silicone resin comprising a trifunctional unit of formula (R)SiO3/2, wherein R is chosen, independently by trifunctional unit, from hydrocarbyl groups and hydroxyl groups, on the condition that at least one R is a hydrocarbyl group; and, (c) titanium dioxide particles having an average size of between approximately 100 nanometers and 1000 nanometers.

Abstract: A composition for applying to a honeycomb body includes a refractory filler, an organic binder, an inorganic binder, and a liquid vehicle, wherein the refractory filler, the particle size distribution of the refractory filler, the organic binder, and the inorganic binder are selected such that, when the composition is applied to plug a plurality of channels of the honeycomb body, the plug depth variability is reduced.

Abstract: A ceramic honeycomb structure comprising large numbers of cells partitioned by porous cell walls, the cell walls having (a) porosity of 50-80%, and when measured by mercury porosimetry, (b) a median pore diameter being 25-50 ?m, (c) (i) a cumulative pore volume in a pore diameter range of 20 ?m or less being 25% or less of the total pore volume, (ii) a cumulative pore volume in a pore diameter range of more than 20 ?m and 50 ?m or less being 50% or more of the total pore volume, and (iii) a cumulative pore volume in a pore diameter range of more than 50 ?m being 12% or more of the total pore volume.

Abstract: A honeycomb structure body has cell walls arranged in a lattice arrangement and a plurality of cells surrounded by the cell walls. The honeycomb structure body has a cell density distribution in which a cell density is reduced continuously or stepwise from a center portion to an outer peripheral portion in a radial direction. The honeycomb structure body has wave shaped cell walls and flat shaped cell walls which extend in an axial direction. Particularly, the wave shaped cell walls are formed in a formation section having a cell density ratio of not more than 0.85 to a maximum cell density. The region having the flat shaped cell walls is inside the region having the wave shaped cell walls.

Abstract: A method of making a fiber-reinforced composite structure comprises the steps of (i) forming a paper sheet having a Gurley air resistance at least 200 seconds per 100 milliliters, the sheet comprising from 30 to 70 weight percent p-aramid fiber, (ii) depositing on both surfaces of the paper sheet a compression enhancing layer in a quantity up to 5 weight percent based on the weight of the paper, (iii) forming a honeycomb from the sheet of step (ii), and (iv) applying a matrix resin coating to the honeycomb of step (iii).

Abstract: A composite structure includes a first face sheet, a second face sheet, and a foam member located between the first face sheet and the second face sheet. The foam member has a molded contour, the mold contour being configured to provide tooling surface for at least one of the first face sheet and the second face sheet prior to curing of the composite structure. A method of making the foam member includes creating a mold tool having an interior surface which resembles the desired outer contour of the foam member. A mixture is poured into a pour opening in the mold tool. The mixture is allowed to polymerize into a foam as the foam expands and distributes within the mold tool. Vent openings in the mold tool are selectively tailored to control the density of the foam member. The foam member is cured in the mold tool.

Abstract: A raw setter has a plate shape, is made of the same material as in a honeycomb formed body, and has a chamfered portion in which a circumferential portion of one end face is chamfered in an oblique direction and whose has a tapered cross-sectional shape by reducing a diameter of an end face portion to an outer diameter, a ratio of an area of a flat portion to an end face area is from 10 to 85%, an angle formed between the flat portion and the chambered portion is from 3 to 50°, a flatness of each of the flat portion of the one end face and a flat portion of the other end face is 0.3 mm or less, and a thickness of cell partition walls is 0.1 mm or less.

Abstract: A honeycomb structure has a plurality of pillar honeycomb segments with a porous partition wall that defines a plurality of cells extending from an inflow end face as one end face to an outflow end face as another end face and becoming channels for a fluid and a bonding layer that bonds side surfaces of the plurality of honeycomb segments one another, the bonding layer contains a plurality of plate-shaped particles, the plate-shaped particles are laminated in a thickness direction X of the bonding layer at a cross section of the bonding layer cut off to the thickness direction of the bonding layer, the number of particles ? meets Expression: number of particles ?>10, and the number of particles ? and the number of particles ? meet a relationship of Expression: (number of particles ?/number of particles ?)>3.

Abstract: A vented honeycomb structure with a plurality of honeycomb cells arranged in a hierarchical order and having a plurality of truss walls, each truss wall including a plurality of members. The vented honeycomb structure is fabricated by joining a plurality of sheets of trusses using any one of an expansion, a corrugation, and a slotting process. Fabrication can also occur by deposition, casting, additive, extrusion, or aligning and joining methods. The honeycomb cells, truss walls, truss wall openings, and truss wall members can be functionally graded.

Abstract: Disclosed is a honeycomb support structure comprising a honeycomb body and an outer layer or skin formed of a cement that includes an inorganic filler material having a first coefficient of thermal expansion from 25° C. to 600° C. and a crystalline inorganic fibrous material having a second coefficient of thermal expansion from 25° C. to 600° C.

Abstract: A honeycomb structure body has an inner side base section and an outer side base section having a cylindrical shape. Inner side cells are formed in the inner side base section at a constant cell density. Outer side cells are formed in the outer side base section. A cell density of the outer side cells varies a radius direction. The outer side cells are formed on the basis of a relational equation of y=a(x?b)n+c, where x is a distance on the outer side base section measured from a central point on a radial cross section, y indicates the number of the outer side cells per one cm2 at the distance x, a is a negative constant, b is a radius of the inner periphery of the outer side base section, c is the number of the inner side cells per one cm2, and n is a degree.