Patent 7141087 was granted and assigned to NGK Insulators on November, 2006 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
There is disclosed a honeycomb ceramics filter, wherein an average pore diameter X (μm) and partition wall thickness W (μm) of the filter satisfy a relation of 10≧W/X. According to this filter, while a predetermined trapping efficiency is maintained, a pressure loss can be prevented from increasing to be not less than a predetermined pressure loss even with use for a long period.