Raw setter, and firing method of honeycomb formed body
AssigneeNGK Insulators, Ltd.
InventorsTakehiko Watanabe, Akira Nishikawa
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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.
Claims7
A raw setter, which is used for firing a honeycomb formed body, comprising a plurality of polygonal cells defined by lattice-shaped cell partition walls extending from one end face, on which the honeycomb formed body is placed to an other end face, is made of the same material as the honeycomb formed body, has a first chamfered portion in which a circumferential portion of the one end face is chamfered in an oblique direction, has a tapered cross-sectional shape reducing a diameter of the one end face to an outer diameter, and has a second chamfered portion in which a circumferential portion of the other end face is chamfered in an oblique direction and has a tapered cross-sectional shape reducing a diameter of the other end face to a second outer diameter,
- wherein an area ratio R of a flat portion excluding the chamfered portion from the one end face to a cross-section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the polygonal cells that comprises the largest diameter of the raw setter is from 10 to 85%, an angle θ formed between the flat portion and the chamfered portion is from 3 to 50°, the other end face has a flat portion parallel to the flat portion of the one end face, a flatness of each of the flat portion of the one end face and the flat portion of the other end face is 0.3 mm or less, a thickness of the cell partition walls is 0.1 mm or less, and a circumferential portion of the raw setter has the same shape as a circumferential portion of the honeycomb formed body to be loaded.
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