Ngk Insulators, Inc.

Tsutomu Hirota

Yuji Asai

Takeyuki Ishii

Ken Fukuta

Toshihiro Sano

An apparatus for molding a honeycomb structure provided with an extruder for the honeycomb structure capable of extruding a honeycomb structure in the gravity direction or an oblique direction at an angle of smaller than 30&#xb0; with the gravity direction and at least one cradle, said apparatus being provided with a means of being able to place the honeycomb structure extending in length with progress of extrusion on the cradle with cell opening end faceof the honeycomb structure being pressure contacted with the cradle under a pressure smaller than the compressive strength at the end face and then to move the cradle at a speed capable of keeping the pressure contact state and in the same direction as the lengthwise direction of the honeycomb structure.

Equipment and method for manufacturing honeycomb structural body

Apparatus for coating an outer periphery of a columnar structural body comprising (a)a holder for supporting a columnar structural body; (b) a coater for coating the outer periphery of the columnar structural body with a coating material, (c) a feeder for feeding the coating material to the coater; (d) a driving unit for rotating at least one of the columnar structural body and the coater relative to each other around an axis of the holder; and (e) a doctor blade spaced from the outer periphery of the columnar structural body by a given distance for uniformly spreading a coating material applied around the outer periphery of the columnar structural body.

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Gifu, Japan

Tsutomu Hirota