Patent 11077397 was granted and assigned to NGK Insulators on August, 2021 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A honeycomb filter includes a plugged honeycomb structure body which has cell rows arranged along one direction, in a cross section of the honeycomb structure body and including a first cell row constituted of at least one of an inflow cell and an outflow cell, and a through-cell, and a second cell row including no through-cells. A width P1 (mm) of the first cell row, a width P2 (mm) of the second cell row and a curvature radius R (μm) of a curved shape of corner portions of a polygonal shape of each cell satisfy a relation of Equation (1) below: Equation (1): 0.4 (R/1000)/((P1+P2)/2) 100 20.