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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2009
Shuichi Takagi, Nagoya, JP;
Yasuhiro Horiba, Ichinomiya, JP;
Shuichi Takagi, Nagoya, JP;
Yasuhiro Horiba, Ichinomiya, JP;
NGK Insulators, Ltd., Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
There is provided a method for drying a honeycomb formed article. The method has the first step, where an unfired honeycomb formed articlehaving a plurality of cells separated by partition walls made from raw material composition containing a ceramic raw material, water, and a binder is heated and dried by microwave drying or dielectric drying, and a second step, where the honeycomb formed articleis dried by hot air drying, where hot air whose humidity was adjusted to have a wet-bulb temperature of 50 to 100° C. using a hot air drying apparatusafter the first step is passed through the cells. The method can dry a honeycomb formed article in a shorter period of time with inhibiting generation of a defect such as a deformation or breakage.