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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2005
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2002
Satoru Yamaguchi, Anjyo, JP;
Hiromi Katou, Kuwana, JP;
Yasushi Miyamura, Kuwana, JP;
Denso Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
A method of holding a dried honeycomb structure, which is a honeycomb structure after a drying process and before a firing process, when a ceramic honeycomb structure in which bulkheads forming a number of cells are disposed in the form of a honeycomb is manufactured with a manufacturing method including a extruding process, the drying process, and the firing process. A chuckhaving a plurality of clawsis used and the plurality of clawsare allowed to come into contact with an outer peripheryof the dried honeycomb structureso that the direction of the pressure F applied to the dried honeycomb structureby the claws is substantially parallel with the bulkheads.