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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 16, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignees:
Denso Corporation, Kariya, JP;
Nippon Soken, Inc., Nishio, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
428116 ; 428118 ; 264630 ; 264631 ;
Abstract
There are provided thin-walled honeycomb structural bodies with high strength and excellent thermal shock resistance by using as the starting material for cordierite honeycomb structural bodies a combination of talc with a median particle diameter exceeding 7 .mu.m and not greater than 20 .mu.m and with a CaO content of 0.2 wt % or less and another cordierite material such as kaolin with a median particle diameter of not greater than 1 .mu.m, molding the starting material into a honeycomb shape with a cell wall thickness of 130 .mu.m or less, and firing the mold.