Ceramic honeycomb structure
AssigneeNGK Insulators, Ltd.
InventorKoichi Ikeshima
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Abstract
The present invention provides a ceramic honeycomb structure, capable of certainly repairing the defect parts formed in the outer walls without lowering the mechanical strength or the thermal shock resistance and solving the liquid leakage trouble to the outer walls in the catalyst coating process. The ceramic honeycomb structure comprises a number of passages divided by a number of partition walls, and an outer wall dividing the passages from an outside of the honeycomb structure. A ceramic material is filled into at least one defective area on a surface of the outer wall, which has a hole of at least 0.1 mm in width communicating with the passage and the outside.
Claims8
A ceramic honeycomb structure comprising:
- a number of passages divided by a number of partition walls;
- an outer wall dividing the passages from an outside of the honeycomb structure;
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- a ceramic material filled into at least one defective area on a surface of the outer wall, the defective area having a hole of at least 0.1 mm in width communicating with the passage and the outside, wherein the ceramic material is further filled into the passage communicating with the hole and wherein the ceramic material has a porosity and a water absorbing ratio that is the same as or less than a porosity and a water absorbing ratio, respectively, of a material of the ceramic honeycomb structure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.