WO2017033774A1

WO2017033774A1 - Method for manufacturing honeycomb filter

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Publication number: WO2017033774A1
Application number: PCT/JP2016/073771
Authority: WO
Inventors: 拓也門脇
Original assignee: 住友化学株式会社
Priority date: 2015-08-25
Filing date: 2016-08-12
Publication date: 2017-03-02
Also published as: JP2018167397A

Abstract

According to the present invention, from a green molded body that contains a ceramic material and in which an end of a penetration hole on the side of a lower end surface or an upper end surface is sealed by a sealing part, a honeycomb filter is manufactured by, at an upper end surface member placement step, placing an upper end surface member containing a ceramic material on the upper end surface in a state in which the lower end surface is facing downward and the upper end surface is facing upward, and, at a baking step, baking the green molded body having the upper end surface member placed on the upper end surface. At the upper end surface member placement step, as a result of placing the upper end surface member containing the ceramic material on the upper end surface, transition toward the upper end surface member occurs for a spot where concentration of stress, which is due to a temperature gradient and which becomes a cause of cracking during baking, occurs. As a result, cracking of the honeycomb filter during baking can be prevented.

Description

Manufacturing method of honeycomb filter

One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a honeycomb filter.

Conventionally, a method for manufacturing a honeycomb filter used for a diesel particulate filter or the like is known. In the manufacture of a honeycomb filter, a green (unfired) molded body containing a ceramic raw material is manufactured by extrusion molding or the like. The green molded body is a honeycomb columnar body in which a plurality of through holes parallel to each other are formed and partition walls separating the plurality of through holes. A honeycomb filter is manufactured by firing the green molded body.

JP 2013-711146 A

By the way, the honeycomb filter used for the diesel particulate filter or the like is sealed by the sealing portion containing the ceramic raw material at the end of the through hole on either one of the two end surfaces of the columnar body of the green molded body. It functions as a filter. In order to reduce the number of firing steps by firing the columnar body and the sealing part of the green molded body together, the end of the through hole of the green molded body is sealed by the sealing part before the green molded body is fired. There are many. However, if the green molded body is fired with the end of the through hole of the green molded body being sealed, a temperature gradient due to a temperature difference is likely to occur in each part of the green molded body, and the post-baking due to stress concentration due to the temperature gradient. Cracks may occur in the honeycomb filter.

One aspect of the present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and an object thereof is to provide a method for manufacturing a honeycomb filter capable of preventing cracking of the honeycomb filter during firing.

One embodiment of the present invention includes a honeycomb-shaped columnar body that includes a plurality of through-holes parallel to each other and includes partition walls that separate the plurality of through-holes, and a sealing portion that seals one end of the through-hole. Some of the through holes are sealed at the first end surface of the columnar body orthogonal to the through holes at the first end surface and the second end surface, and are opened at the second end surface. The remaining through-holes are sealed with a sealing portion at the second end surface and open at the first end surface, and the columnar body and the sealing portion face the first end surface downward with respect to the green molded body containing the ceramic raw material. The upper end surface member is placed on the second end surface by placing the upper end surface member containing the ceramic raw material on the second end surface with the second end surface facing upward, and the upper end surface member placing step. The green molded body placed is fired to form honeycomb honeycomb. A method for manufacturing a honeycomb filter and a firing step of manufacturing the filter.

According to this configuration, in the upper end surface member placing step, the upper end surface member containing the ceramic raw material is placed on the second end surface, so that the location where stress concentration due to a temperature gradient that causes cracks during firing occurs is increased. Transition to the end face member. Thereby, cracking of the honeycomb filter can be prevented during firing.

In this case, in the upper end face member placing step, the end material of the green molded body manufactured by extruding the ceramic raw material may be placed on the second end face as the upper end face member.

According to this configuration, in the upper end surface member placing step, the end material of the green molded body manufactured by extruding the ceramic raw material is placed on the second end surface as the upper end surface member. As a result, since the green molded body and the upper end surface member are made of the same material and the same partition wall structure, the temperature characteristics of the green molded body and the upper end surface member are also the same. The transition to the end face member can be facilitated reliably. Moreover, since the end material produced at the time of manufacture of a green molded object is applied as an upper end surface member, cost reduction can be aimed at compared with the case where an upper end surface member is produced separately.

Further, in the upper end surface member mounting step, the upper end surface member whose length from the uppermost portion of the upper end surface member mounted on the second end surface to the second end surface is 0.05 times or more the thickness of the second end surface May be placed on the second end face.

According to this configuration, in the upper end surface member mounting step, the length from the uppermost portion of the upper end surface member mounted on the second end surface to the second end surface (that is, the thickness of the upper end surface member) is the second end surface. An upper end surface member having a thickness of 0.05 times or more is placed on the second end surface. For this reason, the location where the stress concentration that causes cracks during firing can be reliably transferred to the upper end surface member.

Further, the method of one embodiment of the present invention can be applied to a green molded body that becomes a honeycomb filter having a porosity of 50% or more after the firing step.

According to this configuration, the green molded body becomes a honeycomb filter having a porosity of 50% or more after the firing step, and is easily cracked due to stress concentration. Therefore, when the manufacturing method of the honeycomb filter of one embodiment of the present invention is applied. The effect of preventing cracks is remarkable.

The method of one embodiment of the present invention can be applied to a green molded body that becomes a honeycomb filter having a bending strength of 1.5 MPa or less after the firing step.

According to this configuration, the green molded body becomes a honeycomb filter having a bending strength of 1.5 MPa or less after the firing step, and cracking is likely to occur due to stress concentration. Therefore, the method for manufacturing a honeycomb filter according to one embodiment of the present invention is applied. When it does, the effect which prevents a crack becomes remarkable.

Further, the method of one embodiment of the present invention can be applied to a green molded body having an inflection point in a temperature range where the shrinkage curve indicating the shrinkage rate of the green molded body with respect to temperature is 900 ° C. or higher.

According to this configuration, the green molded body has an inflection point in a temperature range of 900 ° C. or higher in the shrinkage curve indicating the shrinkage rate of the green molded body with respect to temperature in the firing step, and stress concentration due to a temperature gradient is likely to occur. Since cracking is likely to occur, the effect of preventing cracking becomes significant when the method for manufacturing a honeycomb filter of one embodiment of the present invention is applied.

According to the method for manufacturing a honeycomb filter of one embodiment of the present invention, cracking of the honeycomb filter can be prevented during firing.

(A) is a perspective view of the green molded object which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention, (b) is a front view of the upper end surface of the columnar body of (a). It is a figure which shows the outline of the cross section parallel to the extension direction of the through-hole of the green molded object of Fig.1 (a). In the green molded object of FIG. 2, it is a figure which shows the state which supported the lower end surface with the base, and mounted the upper end surface member on the upper end surface. It is a graph of the shrinkage | contraction curve which shows the shrinkage | contraction rate of the green molded object with respect to the temperature of the green molded object which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the temperature distribution at the time of baking of the green molded object used as a honeycomb filter after baking. It is a figure which shows the temperature distribution at the time of baking of the green molded object used as a elongate honeycomb filter after baking. It is a figure which shows the cross section parallel to the extension direction of the through-hole of the honey-comb filter which the crack produced after baking. It is a figure which shows the lower end surface of the honey-comb filter which the crack produced after baking. It is a figure which shows the temperature distribution at the time of baking the green molded object of FIG. 6 in the state which mounted the upper end surface member on the upper end surface. It is a graph which shows the oxygen concentration and temperature with respect to time at the time of baking of the Example of this invention.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. First, the green molded object used as the object of baking in 1st Embodiment of this invention is demonstrated. As shown to Fig.1 (a), the green molded object 70 which concerns on this embodiment has the shape of a columnar body as a whole, and has the shape of a cylindrical body in more detail. The green molded body 70 has a lower end surface (first end surface) 71a, an upper end surface (second end surface) 71b, and a side surface 71c of the cylindrical body. As shown in FIGS. 1A and 1B, the green molded body 70 is formed with a plurality of through holes 70h parallel to each other. The lower end surface 71a and the upper end surface 71b are orthogonal to the through hole 70h.

The green molded body 70 is a honeycomb columnar body having partition walls 70W separating the plurality of through holes 70h. The through holes 70h separated from each other by the partition walls 70W have a regular hexagonal shape as viewed from the lower end surface 71a and the upper end surface 71b. The green molded body 70 includes a sealing portion 72 that seals one end of the through hole 70h. The green molded body 70 is an unfired molded body that contains a ceramic raw material and becomes porous ceramic when fired later. The length of the green molded body 70 in the direction in which the through hole 70h extends is not particularly limited, but may be, for example, 40 to 350 mm. Further, the thickness (diameter) of the lower end surface 71a and the upper end surface 71b of the green molded body 70 is not particularly limited, but may be, for example, 10 to 320 mm. Each of the through holes 70 h is separated by a partition wall 70 </ b> W that extends parallel to the central axis of the green molded body 70. The thickness of the partition wall 70W can be 0.8 mm or less or 0.5 mm or less, and can be 0.1 mm or more or 0.2 mm or more.

As shown in FIGS. 1 (a), 1 (b), and 2, some of the through holes 70h of the plurality of through holes 70h are sealed by the sealing portion 72 at the lower end surface 71a, and at the upper end surface 71b. is open. The remaining through hole 70h of the plurality of through holes 70h is sealed by the sealing portion 72 at the upper end surface 71b and opened at the lower end surface 71a. In the example of FIGS. 1B and 2, the six through holes 70 h around one through hole 70 h are open on the upper end surface 71 b side, and each of the six open through holes 70 h has a periphery. One enclosed through hole 70 h is sealed by a sealing portion 72. On the other hand, on the lower end surface 71 a side, each of the six through holes 70 h surrounding the open one through hole 70 h is sealed with a sealing portion 72. When the green molded body 70 is applied as a honeycomb filter, in order to reduce pressure loss, the upper end surface 71b is the inlet side of the gas flow path, and the lower end surface 71a is the outlet side of the gas flow path.

The green molded body 70 is a green body (unfired body) that becomes porous ceramics when fired later, and includes a ceramic raw material. The ceramic is not particularly limited, and examples thereof include alumina, silica, mullite, cordierite, glass, oxides such as aluminum titanate, silicon carbide, silicon nitride, and metal. The aluminum titanate can further contain magnesium and / or silicon.

The green molded body 70 may include an inorganic compound source powder that is a ceramic raw material, an organic binder such as methylcellulose, and an additive that is added as necessary.

The ceramic raw material includes an inorganic compound source powder containing the elements constituting the ceramic. For example, when the ceramic is aluminum titanate, the inorganic compound source powder includes an aluminum source powder such as α-alumina powder and a titanium source powder such as anatase type or rutile type titania powder, and / or aluminum titanate. It contains powder, and may further contain magnesium source powder such as magnesia powder and magnesia spinel powder, and / or silicon source powder such as silicon oxide powder and glass frit. In order to increase the porosity and the pore diameter, when the ceramic is aluminum titanate, the inorganic compound source powder may contain magnesia spinel powder, and the amount thereof is 100% of aluminum atoms in the fired honeycomb filter. The amount of magnesium atoms derived from magnesia spinel may be 10 to 20 parts by mass with respect to parts by mass, and the proportion of magnesia spinel in the magnesium source is 80% by mass or more. May be. By using such an inorganic compound source powder containing magnesia spinel, it is possible to realize a ceramic filter made of aluminum titanate having a porosity of 50%.

Examples of the organic binder include celluloses such as methylcellulose, carboxymethylcellulose, hydroxyalkylmethylcellulose, and sodium carboxymethylcellulose; alcohols such as polyvinyl alcohol; and lignin sulfonate.

Examples of additives include a pore-forming agent, a lubricant, a plasticizer, a dispersant, and a solvent.

As a pore-forming agent, carbon materials such as graphite; resins such as polyethylene, polypropylene, polymethyl methacrylate; plant materials such as starch (potato starch), nut shells, walnut shells, corn; ice; and dry ice Is mentioned.

Lubricants or plasticizers include alcohols such as glycerin; higher fatty acids such as caprylic acid, lauric acid, palmitic acid, arachidic acid, oleic acid and stearic acid; and stearic acid metal salts such as Al stearate.

Examples of the dispersant include inorganic acids such as nitric acid, hydrochloric acid, and sulfuric acid; organic acids such as oxalic acid, citric acid, acetic acid, malic acid, and lactic acid; alcohols such as methanol, ethanol, and propanol; ammonium polycarboxylate; Surfactants such as oxyalkylene alkyl ethers are listed.

As the solvent, for example, alcohols such as methanol, ethanol, butanol and propanol; glycols such as propylene glycol, polypropylene glycol and ethylene glycol; and water can be used.

As the sealing portion 72, a material that becomes ceramics by firing the same as the green molded body 70 can be used. In addition, the sealing part 72 may seal the through-hole 70h by crimping or welding the partition walls 70W in the vicinity of the lower end surface 71a and the upper end surface 71b.

The green molded body 70 can be manufactured through, for example, the following extrusion process, drying process, and cutting process. First, an inorganic compound source powder, an organic binder, a solvent, and additives as necessary are prepared. Then, these are mixed by a kneader or the like to obtain a raw material mixture, and the obtained raw material mixture is extruded from an extruder having an outlet opening corresponding to the sectional shape of the partition wall, dried, and cut into a desired length A green molded body 70 can be obtained. Thereafter, the end of the through hole 70 h of the green molded body 70 is sealed by the sealing portion 72.

In the present embodiment, the green molded body 70 can be a honeycomb filter having a porosity of 50% or more after a firing step described later. Thereby, when applied as a honeycomb filter, pressure loss can be reduced. Further, when a honeycomb filter having a porosity of 50% or more after the firing process is used, the honeycomb filter tends to be a honeycomb filter having a bending strength of 1.5 MPa or less after the firing process.

Hereinafter, a method for manufacturing a honeycomb filter using the green molded body 70 will be described. First, as shown in FIG. 3, the upper end surface member mounting step is such that the lower end surface 71 a is supported by the base 80 with the lower end surface 71 a facing downward and the upper end surface 71 b facing upward, and the upper end surface 71 b is supported by the upper end surface. The member 90 is placed. The base 80 has a cylindrical shape having the same diameter as the lower end surface 71a. The height of the pedestal 80 can be set to, for example, 5 to 50 mm. The upper end surface member 90 has a cylindrical shape having the same diameter as the upper end surface 71b. The length from the uppermost portion of the upper end surface member 90 to the upper end surface 71b can be 0.05 times or more, 0.09 times or more, and 0.5 times or less the thickness (diameter) of the upper end surface. The upper end surface of the base 80 and the lower end surface 71a of the green molded body 70 are arranged so as to coincide with each other. The upper end surface 71b of the green molded body 70 and the lower end surface of the upper end surface member 90 are arranged to coincide with each other.

When the green molded body 70 is manufactured by extruding a ceramic raw material, the pedestal 80 and the upper end surface member 90 are the ends of the green molded body 70 that have been precisely cut to produce a product as a diesel particulate filter or the like. Material can be applied. By manufacturing from the same extruder, the green molded body 70, the pedestal 80, and the upper end surface member 90 can have through-holes 70h and partition walls 70W having the same cross-sectional structure, and can have the same composition.

Next, as shown in FIG. 3, the green molded body in which the lower end surface 71a is supported by the pedestal 80 and the upper end surface member 90 is mounted on the upper end surface 71b as shown in FIG. 70 is fired to produce a honeycomb filter. The green molded body 70 is supported by the pedestal 80 and placed in the firing furnace with the upper end surface member 90 placed thereon. Firing is usually performed using a conventional firing furnace such as a tubular electric furnace, a box-type electric furnace, a tunnel furnace, a far-infrared furnace, a microwave heating furnace, a shaft furnace, a reflection furnace, a rotary furnace, or a roller hearth furnace.

The green molded body 70 is calcined (degreasing) before firing. The calcination (degreasing) is a process for removing the organic binder in the green molded body 70, the pedestal 80 and the upper end surface member 90 and the organic additive blended as necessary by burning, decomposition, etc. Typically, the temperature is raised to the firing temperature (for example, a temperature range of 150 to 900 ° C.).

The firing temperature of the green molded body 70, the pedestal 80, and the upper end surface member 90 can usually be 1300 ° C. or higher or 1400 ° C. or higher. Moreover, a calcination temperature can be normally made into 1650 degrees C or less or 1550 degrees C or less. The rate of temperature increase up to the firing temperature is not limited, but is usually 1 ° C./hour to 500 ° C./hour. Firing is usually carried out in the atmosphere, but depending on the type of raw material powder used and the amount used, it may be fired in an inert gas such as nitrogen gas or argon gas, carbon monoxide gas, hydrogen gas, etc. You may bake in reducing gas like this. Further, the firing may be performed in an atmosphere in which the water vapor partial pressure is lowered. The time required for firing is sufficient as long as ceramics are generated, and varies depending on the size of the green molded body 70, the type of firing furnace, firing temperature, firing atmosphere, etc., but usually 10 minutes to 100 hours. It is.

When an inorganic compound source powder containing magnesia spinel powder is used in a honeycomb filter made of aluminum titanate having a porosity of 50% or more after the firing step, a graph of the shrinkage curve showing the shrinkage rate of the green molded body with respect to temperature is shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. In the example of FIG. 4, a contraction curve is shown when the green molded body 70 is heated at a temperature rising rate of 5 ° C./min. As shown in FIG. 4, in the vicinity of 1300 ° C. where the shrinkage curve is 900 ° C. or higher, the tangential slope of the shrinkage curve becomes gentle as the temperature rises and then becomes steep as the temperature rises. It can be seen that it has an inflection point P. The inflection point P means a point where the direction of bending of the contraction curve changes.

Hereinafter, functions and effects of the method for manufacturing the honeycomb filter of the present embodiment will be described. When the green molded body 70 as shown in FIG. 1A, FIG. 1B, and FIG. 2 is fired, the end of the through hole 70h is sealed by the sealing portion 72. Gas is unlikely to escape between the lower end surface 71a and heat is not easily transmitted from the upper end surface 71b side to the lower end surface 71a side. Therefore, as shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, the green molded body 70 has a high temperature from the upper end surface 71 b, and the lower end surface 71 a side in contact with the pedestal 80 has a low temperature.

When the temperature gradient becomes steep, stress concentration is likely to occur due to the difference in shrinkage rate of each part of the green molded body 70. As shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, in the vicinity of the peripheral edge portion of the upper end surface 71 b, since the isotherm is curved with a high curvature, stress concentration is most likely to occur due to a difference in contraction rate of each portion. In the case of the green molded body 70 that becomes a honeycomb filter having a porosity of 50% or more after the firing step, the porosity is high, and the bending strength of the honeycomb filter after the firing step tends to be as weak as 1.5 MPa or less. As a result, cracks C are generated inside the honeycomb filter 100 after firing due to the stress concentration generated in the vicinity of the upper end surface 71b. As shown in FIG. 7, the cracks C are formed along the isothermal curve in the temperature distribution of FIG. It progresses inside the filter 100, and finally a crack C appears on the lower end surface 71a as shown in FIG. Further, in the green molded body 70 showing the shrinkage curve as shown in FIG. 4, the shrinkage rate once decreases in the temperature range near 1300 ° C., so that the green molded body 70 is not uniformly contracted in each part and stress is generated. The crack C tends to occur inside the honeycomb filter 100 after firing due to the stress concentration generated in the vicinity of the upper end surface 71b more remarkably.

On the other hand, in the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 9, in the upper end surface member mounting step, the upper end surface member 90 is mounted on the upper end surface 71 b, thereby stress concentration due to a temperature gradient that causes cracking during firing. It is possible to make the transition where the most occurs occur to the peripheral edge portion of the upper end surface of the upper end surface member 90. Thereby, generation | occurrence | production of the crack C of the honey-comb filter 100 can be prevented at the time of baking.

Further, in this embodiment, in the upper end surface member placing step, the end material of the green molded body 70 manufactured by extruding the ceramic raw material is placed on the upper end surface 71b as the upper end surface member 90. As a result, the green molded body 70 and the upper end surface member 90 are made of the same material and the same partition wall structure. Therefore, the green molded body 70 and the upper end surface member 90 have the same temperature characteristics, which are caused by temperature gradients that cause cracks during firing. The location where the stress concentration occurs can be surely easily shifted to the upper end surface member 90. Moreover, since the end material produced at the time of manufacturing the green molded body 70 is applied as the upper end surface member 90, the cost can be reduced as compared with the case where the upper end surface member 90 is separately manufactured.

In the present embodiment, in the upper end surface member placement step, the upper end surface member 90 has a length from the uppermost portion of the upper end surface member 90 to the upper end surface 71b that is 0.05 times or more the thickness of the upper end surface 71b. Is placed on the upper end surface 71b. For this reason, the location where stress concentration due to a temperature gradient that causes cracking during firing can be reliably transferred to the upper end surface member 90.

Further, according to the present embodiment, the green molded body 70 can be a honeycomb filter 100 having a porosity of 50% or more after the firing process and a bending strength of 1.5 MPa or less after the firing process, and stress concentration. Therefore, when the method for manufacturing a honeycomb filter according to the present embodiment is applied, the effect of preventing the occurrence of cracks becomes remarkable.

Further, according to the present embodiment, the green molded body 70 has an inflection point in a temperature range where the shrinkage rate of the green molded body 70 with respect to the temperature is 900 ° C. or more, and stress concentration easily occurs, and cracking occurs. Therefore, when the method for manufacturing the honeycomb filter according to the present embodiment is applied, the effect of preventing cracking becomes remarkable.

The embodiment of the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and various modifications are possible. For example, the cross-sectional shape viewed from the lower end surface 71a and the upper end surface 71b of the through hole 70h of the green molded body 70 is not limited to a regular hexagon, but a hexagon other than a square, a rectangle, a circle, an ellipse, a triangle, and a regular hexagon. , Octagonal etc. A plurality of types of through-holes 70 h having different cross-sectional shapes and dimensions may be formed in the green molded body 70. The interval between the through holes 70h and the arrangement of the through holes 70h are not particularly limited. The outer shape of the green molded body 70 is not limited to a cylinder whose lower end surface 71a and upper end surface 71b are circles. For example, the outer shape of the green molded body 70 can be a cylinder whose lower end surface 71a and upper end surface 71b are elliptical. The outer diameter can be triangular, quadrangular, hexagonal, octagonal, etc. Further, unless the effect of the embodiment of the present invention is remarkably impaired, the pedestal 80 and the upper end surface member 90 may not have the same composition as that of the green molded body 70, and may not have the same cross-sectional structure as the green molded body 70. The diameter may not be the same as the lower end surface 71a and the upper end surface 71b of the green molded body 70.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in more detail by way of examples. However, the embodiments of the present invention are not limited to these examples.

(Example)
A honeycomb filter was manufactured by the above-described method for manufacturing a honeycomb filter according to the present embodiment under the conditions shown in Table 1 below. As the green molded body 70, a green molded body 70 having a cylindrical shape as shown in FIGS. 1A and 1B was applied. The ceramic raw material of the green molded body 70 was aluminum titanate, and potato starch was used as the pore former. The green molded body 70 becomes a honeycomb filter 100 having a porosity of 59% after the firing step and a bending strength of 1.5 MPa or less after the firing step. The shrinkage curve of the green molded body 70 is shown in FIG.

The base 80 and the upper end surface member 90 are as shown in FIG. In Table 1, “the diameter (mm) of the green molded body” means the diameters of the lower end surface 71 a and the upper end surface 71 b of the green molded body 70. In Table 1, “the height (mm) of the green molded body” means the length from the lower end surface 71 a to the upper end surface 71 b of the green molded body 70. In Table 1, “the thickness (mm) of the upper end surface member” means a length from the uppermost portion of the upper end surface member 90 placed on the upper end surface 71b to the upper end surface 71b. In the firing step, the green molded body 70 was fired under the conditions shown in Table 1 under the conditions of oxygen concentration and temperature with respect to time as shown in FIG.

As shown in Table 1, no crack C occurred in the fired honeycomb filter 100 in any result of installing the upper end face member.

The honeycomb filter manufacturing method of the embodiment of the present invention can prevent the honeycomb filter from cracking during firing.

70 ... Green molded body, 70h ... Through hole, 70W ... Partition, 71a ... Lower end surface (first end surface), 71b ... Upper end surface (second end surface), 71c ... Side surface, 72 ... Sealing portion, 80 ... Base, 90 ... Upper end surface member, 100 ... honeycomb filter, C ... crack, P ... inflection point.

Claims

A plurality of through-holes having a plurality of through-holes parallel to each other and having a honeycomb-like columnar body including partition walls separating the plurality of through-holes, and a sealing portion sealing one end of the through-hole. A part of the through holes in the hole is sealed by the sealing portion at the first end surface of the first end surface and the second end surface of the columnar body orthogonal to the through hole, and is opened at the second end surface. The remaining through-holes of the plurality of through-holes are sealed with the sealing portion at the second end surface and open at the first end surface, and the columnar body and the sealing portion are formed with a ceramic raw material. About the body
An upper end surface member mounting step of mounting an upper end surface member containing a ceramic raw material on the second end surface in a state where the first end surface is facing downward and the second end surface is facing upward;
A firing step of producing a honeycomb filter by firing the green molded body on which the upper end surface member is placed on the second end surface by the upper end surface member placing step;
Of manufacturing a honeycomb filter.
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein, in the upper end surface member placing step, an end material of the green molded body manufactured by extruding the ceramic raw material is placed on the second end surface as the upper end surface member. .
In the upper end surface member mounting step, the length from the uppermost portion of the upper end surface member mounted on the second end surface to the second end surface is 0.05 times or more the thickness of the second end surface. The method according to claim 1, wherein the upper end surface member is placed on the second end surface.
The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the green molded body becomes the honeycomb filter having a porosity of 50% or more after the firing step.
The method according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the green molded body becomes the honeycomb filter having a bending strength of 1.5 MPa or less after the firing step.
The method according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the green molded body has an inflection point in a temperature range where a shrinkage curve indicating a shrinkage ratio of the green molded body with respect to temperature is 900 ° C or higher.