Electrically heatable honeycomb body, in particular catalyst carrier body, with internal support structures

US5411711A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• EMITEC Gesellschaft fuer Emissionstechnologie mbH · DE

Inventor

• Helmut Swars · Bensberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 1, 1993
• Grant date: May 2, 1995
• Expiry date: Feb 1, 2013

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02T10/12
• WIPO field: Environmental technology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A honeycomb body includes an interior, two end surfaces, cross-sectional regions and a cross-sectional plane. At least partly structured sheet metal layers form a multiplicity of channels through which a fluid can flow. The channels extend from one of the end surfaces to the other. An insulating device subdivides the honeycomb body and extends from one of the end surfaces to the other for reducing electrical conductivity of the honeycomb body in each of the cross-sectional regions and developing at least one wound, electrically cohering conductive current path extending in the cross-sectional plane. Primarily metal support structures extend at least partly in the interior of the honeycomb body and retain the sheet metal layers. The insulating device may be at least one planar gap and the support structures may be stabilizers of the at least one planar gap extending at least intermittently parallel to the at least one planar gap, and/or the insulating device may be electrically insulating layers and the support structures may be carriers of the electrically insulating layers extending inside the electrically insulating layers.