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US 12,370,479 · App. 17/273,064 · Granted Jul 29, 2025

Honeycomb body with porous material

Inventors: Cai Liu (Suzhou, CN); Dale Robert Powers (Painted Post, NY); Jianguo Wang (Cape Coral, FL); Huiqing Wu (Shanghai, CN); Xinfeng Xing (Shanghai, CN)
Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
B01D39/2079B01D46/2429B01D46/24491B01D46/24492B01D46/2474B01D46/2482
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Patent No.
US 12,370,479
App. No.
17/273,064
Granted
Jul 29, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A honeycomb body ( 100 ) having a porous ceramic honeycomb structure with a first end ( 105 ), a second end ( 135 ), and a plurality of walls ( 115 ) having wall surfaces defining a plurality of inner channels ( 110 ). A porous material is disposed on one or more of the wall surfaces of the honeycomb body ( 100 ). A method for forming a honeycomb body ( 100 ) includes depositing a porous inorganic material on a ceramic honeycomb body ( 100 ) and binding the porous inorganic material to the ceramic honeycomb body ( 100 ) to form the porous layer.

Claims (22)

1. A honeycomb body comprising:

a porous ceramic honeycomb structure comprising a first end, a second end, and a plurality of walls having porous wall surfaces defining a plurality of inner channels, the porous wall surfaces comprising wall pores having a mean wall pore size dso of a bulk of the honeycomb body and the wall pores having a dio value above which the wall pore sizes of 90% of the pores lie and below which the wall pore sizes of the remaining 10% of the pores lie; and

a porous inorganic material disposed on one or more of the porous wall surfaces, wherein the porous inorganic material comprises primary particles and agglomerates thereof, wherein the agglomerates comprise an average diameter of 300 nm to 8 micrometers,

wherein the porous inorganic material extends from the first end to the second end, and the porous inorganic material comprises discrete, disconnected patches of filtration material.

2. The honeycomb body of claim 1 , wherein the porous inorganic material comprises a layer which has an average thickness greater than about 0.5 μm and less than or equal to 50 μm.

3. The honeycomb body of claim 1 , wherein the porous inorganic material comprises an oxide ceramic.

4. The honeycomb body of claim 1 , wherein the porous inorganic material covers at least 70% of the wall surfaces.

5. The honeycomb body of claim 1 , wherein the porous inorganic material covers at least 90% of the wall surfaces.

6. The honeycomb body of claim 1 , wherein the first end and the second end are spaced apart by an axial length, and the porous inorganic material covers at least 60% along the axial length.

7. The honeycomb body of claim 1 , wherein the porous honeycomb body has a bulk porosity from greater than or equal to 50% to less than or equal to 70%.

8. The honeycomb body of claim 1 , wherein the porous ceramic honeycomb structure has a bulk mean pore size greater than or equal to 10 μm.

9. The honeycomb body of claim 1 , wherein the porous ceramic honeycomb structure has a bulk mean pore size greater than or equal to 15 μm.

10. The honeycomb body of claim 1 , wherein the porous ceramic honeycomb structure has a bulk mean pore size from greater than or equal to 8 μm to less than or equal to 25 μm.

11. The honeycomb body of claim 1 , wherein the porous ceramic honeycomb structure has a surface porosity greater than or equal to 35%.

12. The honeycomb body of claim 1 , wherein the porous ceramic honeycomb structure has a surface porosity from greater than or equal to 35% to less than or equal to 60%.

13. The honeycomb body of claim 1 , wherein the porous ceramic honeycomb structure has a surface mean pore size greater than or equal to 8 μm.

14. The honeycomb body of claim 1 , wherein the porous ceramic honeycomb structure has a surface mean pore size from greater than or equal to 8 μm to less than or equal to 20 μm.

15. The honeycomb body of claim 1 , wherein the porosity of the porous inorganic material is from about 20% to about 95%.

16. The honeycomb body of claim 1 wherein the agglomerates are porous.

17. The honeycomb body of claim 1 wherein the agglomerates are substantially spherical.

18. The honeycomb body of claim 1 wherein the agglomerates comprise an average diameter of 300 nm to 3 micrometers.

19. The honeycomb body of claim 18 wherein the agglomerates comprise an average diameter of 300 nm to 3 micrometers, and a ratio of the average diameter of the agglomerates to an average diameter of the primary particles is in range of from about 2:1 to about 10:1.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 9, 2023
From: LIU, CAI; POWERS, DALE ROBERT; WANG, JIANGUO; WU, HUIQING; XING, XINFENG
To: CORNING INCORPORATED
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Continuity (1)
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