Patent ID: 6706233
Filing Date: 2004-03-16
Classification: C04B,H05B

Abstract:
In the method for manufacturing a plurality of ceramic bodies by:providing ceramic-forming raw materials and blending the raw materials with an effective amount of vehicle and forming aids to form a plastic mixture therefrom; forming the plastic raw material mixture into a plurality of green bodies; placing each one of said plurality of green bodies in proximity to an adjacent one of said plurality of green bodies; and drying the plurality of green bodies with microwave energy, the improvement wherein: the green bodies are ceramic honeycomb bodies and the plurality of green bodies is subjected to microwave energy in a densely packed array with spacing between adjacent bodies at no more than Â½ the wavelength of the microwave energy such that each green body is subject to no more than about 1.5 times the power density at the boundary than in the bulk thereof.