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Exhaust emission control device

US5228892A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateFeb 25, 1992
Grant dateJul 20, 1993
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Expiry dateFeb 25, 2012

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF02B3/06
  • WIPO fieldEnvironmental technology
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

An exhaust emission control device includes a single filter assembly composed of a pair of side plates respectively formed in an L-letter shape in cross-section and integrally assembled in a square framework having inlet and outlet openings, and a plurality of ceramic filter elements aligned in parallel within the square framework and clamped by the side plates. The filter elements are each made of porous ceramic material and have a thin-walled cellular structure square in cross-section formed with a plurality of axially extending passages separated from each other by thin partition walls, wherein a first group of the passages are closed at their one ends in a checked pattern and opened at their other ends to introduce therein exhaust gases to be purified, while a second group of the passages are opened at their one ends to discharge purified gases therefrom and closed at their other ends in a checked pattern.

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