A honeycomb filter including a honeycomb fired body including porous cell partition walls, exhaust gas introduction cells, exhaust gas emission cells, and an outer wall on the periphery thereof. Provided that the hydraulic diameter is given by the following equation (1) and the area based on the given hydraulic diameter is given by the following equation (2), the ratio of the area based on the hydraulic diameter of an exhaust gas introduction cell to the cross-sectional area of the exhaust gas introduction cell is 0.95 to 0.98, and the ratio of the area based on the hydraulic diameter of an exhaust gas emission cell to the cross-sectional area of the exhaust gas emission cell is 0.7 to 0.9: Hydraulic diameter=(4cross-sectional area of cell)/Cross-sectional peripheral length of cell (1), Area based on the hydraulic diameter=(Hydraulic diameter/2).sup.2(2).

A honeycomb filter includes a plurality of cells and porous cell walls. Exhaust gas is to flow through the plurality of cells. The plurality of cells include exhaust gas introduction cells and exhaust gas emission cells. The honeycomb filter has a round cross sectional shape. Each of the exhaust gas emission cells is adjacently surrounded fully by the exhaust gas introduction cells. In the cross section, the exhaust gas introduction cells and the exhaust gas emission cells each have a polygonal shape. In the cross section, a side forming a cross sectional shape of each of the first exhaust gas introduction cells faces one of the exhaust gas emission cells, a side forming a cross sectional shape of each of the second exhaust gas introduction cells faces one of the exhaust gas emission cells.

A honeycomb structure includes a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure body having a porous partition wall. The honeycomb structure body includes a plurality of cells defined by the partition wall so as to extend from a first end face to a second end face of the honeycomb structure body, the partition wall is formed by a porous body including a silicon phase as a main phase, and the silicon phase as the main phase has content of each of metals other than silicon and metals making up silicide that is 0.3 part by mass or less with respect to 100 parts by mass of silicon.

A compound honeycomb body comprising a first honeycomb section having a volume V1 and a second honeycomb section fluidly connected to the first honeycomb having a volume V2 is provided. The first honeycomb section comprises a low mass high porosity porous ceramic substrate. The second honeycomb section comprises a standard porous ceramic substrate. Wherein V1/V2 comprises a ratio in a range from about 50/50 to about 10/90.

A manufacturing method of a honeycomb structure including: a formed body forming step of extruding a forming raw material, to form a plurality of quadrangular prismatic columnar honeycomb formed bodies; a firing step of firing the honeycomb formed bodies, to form a plurality of quadrangular prismatic-columnar quadrangular segments; a triangular segment forming step to form a triangular prismatic-columnar triangular segment; a bonded body forming step to form a honeycomb bonded body; and a circumference grinding step to manufacture the honeycomb structure, wherein the bonded body forming step further includes: a pressurizing step of pressurizing the triangular segment from a circumferential direction of the temporary assembly toward a central direction thereof, by use of a pressurizing jig comprising a pressurizer.

A packing is provided which has an increased corrosion resistance, high chemical resistance, low flow resistance, and an increased service life in comparison with conventional packings, wherein, to this end, it is provided that the packing comprises includes a honeycomb body having first and second end faces, wherein the honeycomb body has a honeycomb structure which has a plurality of flow channels that are arranged substantially in parallel and that are adjacent to each other by means of channel walls, and wherein the honeycomb body is made from a first plastics material based on polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) polymer material. Furthermore, a column is proposed which comprises includes a housing that has at least one inlet, at least one outlet and one or more packings according to the invention which are preferably arranged in a flow path running from the inlet to the outlet, in succession if applicable.

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 (m) 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.

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 inflow cells and a second cell row including outflow cells. A width P1 (mm) of the first cell row, a width P2 (mm) of the second cell row and a curvature radius R (m) of a curved shape of corner portions of a polygonal shape of each cell satisfy relations of Equations (1) and (2) below: Equation (1): 2100(P1/P2100)50, and Equation (2): 0.4(R/1000)/((P1+P2)/2)10020.

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 and a curvature radius R of a curved shape of corner portions of a polygonal shape of each cell satisfy relations of Equations (1) and (2) below: Equation (1): 2100(P1/P2100)50, and Equation (2): 0.4(R/1000)/((P1+P2)/2)10020.

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 in which at least the inflow cells are included and in which in the cross section perpendicular to the extending direction of the cells, a through channel area SA occupied by the inflow cells is larger than a through channel area SB occupied by the outflow cells, and a second cell row in which at least the outflow cells are included. A width P1 (mm) of the first cell row, a width P2 (mm) of the second cell row and a curvature radius R (m) 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)10020.