Patent ID: 7556703

Claim:
A method of bonding ceramic structures for bonding at least a first ceramics structure to a second ceramics structure, comprising the steps of: applying a pressure to the first ceramics structure and the second ceramics structure in such a direction that these structures move close to each other with a bonding material layer interposed between the first ceramics structure and the second ceramics structure; removing a bonding material extruded from the bonding material layer to an end face of a stacked body including the first ceramics structure and the second ceramics structure by the application of the pressure thereto before any of shrinkage and cracks occur in the extruded bonding material; drying a bonding material near the end face of the stacked body locally by spraying winds on the end face of the stacked body and after removing the extruded bonding material; and drying the entire part of the stacked body after drying the bonding material near the end face of the stacked body.