Ibiden Company Limited

Yukio Oshimi

Kazushige Ohno

Teruo Komori

Sungtae Hong

Hiroki Sato

Noriyuki Taoka

An object of the present invention is to provide a honeycomb structural body with a long service life, which can reduce a pressure loss to a low level upon collecting particulates and maintain the pressure loss at the low level for a long time even after regenerating processes. The honeycomb structural body includes a columnar porous ceramic block in which a large number of through holes are placed in parallel with one another in the length direction with a wall portion interposed therebetween. Herein, the large number of through holes are constituted by a group of large-capacity through holes, each of which is sealed at one end of the honeycomb structural body so that the total sum of the areas on a cross section perpendicular to the length direction is made relatively great, and a group of small-capacity through holes, each of which is sealed at the other end of the honeycomb structural body so that the total sum of the areas on the cross section is made relatively small, and a surface roughness Rof the wall face of the through hole is set in a range from 10 to 100 &#x3bc;m.

Honeycomb structural body

A honeycomb structural body includes a columnar honeycomb structural body having large-capacity through holes and small-capacity through holes extending in parallel in a length direction of the columnar structural body. The large-capacity through holes and the small-capacity through holes have a polygonal shape in a cross section perpendicular to the length direction, and the large-capacity through holes and the small-capacity through holes have R-chamfered corner portions or C-chamfered corner portions in the cross section perpendicular to the length direction.

A honeycomb structured body includes a plurality of honeycomb members bonded together by a bonding material, including a plurality of first honeycomb members, each having a vertical cross-section that is orthogonal to an axis of the honeycomb structured body and rectangular, and a plurality of second honeycomb members each having a vertical cross-section that is orthogonal to the axis and irregular in shape; and a filing layer arranged between an outer coating layer, which defines an outer surface of the honeycomb structured body, and an outer surface of the filter peripheral portion formed by the plurality of second honeycomb members.

Honeycomb structure and manufacturing method for honeycomb structure

A pillar-shaped honeycomb structural body includes a first end face and a second end face substantially parallel to each other; and a peripheral surface connecting the first end face and the second end face. The first end face and the second end face have similar peripheral shapes. A taper rate P satisfies 0&#x3c;P&#x2266; approximately 4%, the taper rate P being expressed by the formula (1), taper rate P(%)=(DD)/(2L)&#xd7;100, wherein the maximum width of the first end face is D, the maximum width of the second end face is D, and the distance between the first end face and the second end face is L.

Honeycomb structural body and exhaust gas treating apparatus

An object of the present invention is to provide a honeycomb structural body (filter) which has a low pressure loss upon collecting particulates, makes it possible to deposit a great amount of particulates and ashes, and is less likely to produce cracks. The columnar honeycomb structural body of the present invention includes a plurality of through holes placed in parallel with one another in the length direction, and wall portion that separates the plurality of through holes from one another and constitutes a circumferential face, wherein the plurality of through holes are composed of a group of large-capacity through holes, with one end thereof being sealed so as to cause the total of areas of cross-section perpendicular to the length direction to become relatively greater, and a group of small-capacity through holes, with the other end thereof being sealed so as to cause the total of areas of the above-mentioned cross-section to become relatively smaller, and the above-mentioned circumferential face of the columnar honeycomb structural body has a chamfered corner portion.

A honeycomb structure includes a first end face and a second end face substantially parallel to each other, a peripheral face interconnecting the first end face and the second end face, a ceramic block including plural through cells with partition walls inbetween, the cells extending from the first end face to the second end face, and a coating layer forming the peripheral face of the honeycomb structure. The thickness of the coating layer at the second end face is greater than at the first end face.

Honeycomb structure and exhaust gas treatment device

The honeycomb structured body of the present invention is a pillar-shaped honeycomb structured body having a honeycomb structure that a number of through holes are placed in parallel with one another in the length direction with a wall portion interposed therebetween and one of ends of each through hole is sealed, wherein a relation between a volume Y (L) of said honeycomb structured body and an aperture ratio X (%) on an inlet side satisfies the following inequality (1):&#x2266;&#x2212;1.1+68.5 (wherein&#x2266;19, 35&#x2266;&#x2266;56)&#x2003;&#x2003;(1).

Honeycomb structured body and exhaust gas purifying device

A honeycomb structured body of the present invention is a honeycomb structured body in which a plurality of porous ceramic members are combined with one another through an adhesive layer, each of the porous ceramic members having a plurality of cells which are allowed to penetrate in a longitudinal direction with a wall portion therebetween and either one end of which is sealed, with a catalyst supporting layer being adhered to said wall portion, wherein pores formed in said porous ceramic member are constituted by large pores having a relatively large pore diameter and small pores having a relatively small pore diameter, and supposing that: the thickness of the catalyst supporting layer is X(&#x3bc;m), and the value, obtained by multiplying the porosity (%) of said porous ceramic member by the ratio (the average pore diameter of said large pores/the average pore diameter of said small pores) of the average pore diameter of said large pores to the average pore diameter of said small pores, is Y, these Xand Yare allowed to satisfy the following inequalities (1) and (2):6+80.5&#x2266;&#x2266;6+230.5&#x2003;&#x2003;(1)&#x2212;6+330&#x2266;&#x2266;&#x2212;6+474&#x2003;&#x2003;(2).

Honeycomb structured body

An object of the present invention is to provide a honeycomb structural body which makes it possible to prevent a thermal stress from concentrating on plugs for sealing a group of inlet-side through holes and the vicinity thereof during a regenerating process, and consequently to prevent occurrence of cracks. The honeycomb structural body of the present invention is a pillar-shaped honeycomb structural body mainly made of porous ceramics, in which a plurality of through holes are placed in parallel with one another in the length direction with a partition wall interposed therebetween. Herein, the through holes are constituted by a group of inlet-side through holes, whose ends are sealed by plugs at the outlet side such that the total sum of areas on cross sections perpendicular to the length direction is made relatively greater, and a group of outlet-side through holes, whose ends are sealed by plugs at the inlet side such that the total sum of areas on the cross sections thereof is made relatively smaller. Supposing that the aperture rate on the inlet side is X (%) and that the total sum of thermal capacities of the plugs which seal the group of inlet-side through holes at 500&#xb0; C. per 11.8 cmof the end face on the outlet side containing the group of the outlet-side through holes is represented by Y(J/K), the relationship indicated by the following inequalities (1) and (2) is satisfied.0.0157&#x2212;0.0678&#x3c;&#x3c;1.15&#x2212;5&#x2003;&#x2003;(1)35&#x2266;X&#x2266;60&#x2003;&#x2003;(2)

A honeycomb filter for purifying exhaust gases that can almost completely burn and remove particulates accumulated on a wall portion by a regenerating process allowing residual ashes on the wall portion to easily move inside a through hole because the ashes are easily separated from the wall portion. In the honeycomb filter a columnar body made of porous ceramics, having parallel through holes in the length direction with a wall portion interposed therebetween, is designed so that part or all of the wall portion that separates the through holes from each other functions as a filter collecting particulates, wherein a length 1 of the longest side in a cross section perpendicular to the length direction of the through hole and a length L in the length direction of the columnar body satisfy: 60&#x2266;L/1&#x2266;500 and a surface roughness Ra (according to JIS B 0601) of the through hole inner wall satisfies: Ra&#x2266;100 &#x3bc;m

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Yukio Oshimi