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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 15, 2000
NGK Insulators, Ltd., , JP;
Abstract
A honeycomb-shaped electric element includes a honeycomb-shaped structural body, the honeycomb-shaped structural body including crossing partition walls defining a number of through-holes arranged thereamong, the through-holes being arranged in at least three lines extending laterally substantially in the same direction, wherein partition wall portions of the through-boles in the at least three lines are made of at least an electrically conductive material and an insulating material such that the partition wall portions of the through-holes made of the electrically conductive material and those of the insulating material are so arranged that a current flow passage may be continuously formed in the same direction as the continuous lines extend.