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Motor vehicle exhaust muffler

US5739485A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateDec 20, 1996
Grant dateApr 14, 1998
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Expiry dateDec 20, 2016

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF01N2510/08
  • WIPO fieldMaterials, metallurgy
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

The invention relates to an exhaust muffler for a motor vehicle, consisting of an external casing (1), an internal casing (2) and a central part (3) consisting of perforated tubing (4) and transverse partitions (5) assembled together to form a chicane, called the insides. The central part (3) is made of an enameled steel, the steel having the following composition in thousandths of a percent by weight: PA1 carbon between 0 and 100 PA1 manganese between 0 and 500 PA1 phosphorus between 0 and 30 PA1 sulfur between 0 and 40 PA1 aluminum between 0 and 60 PA1 titanium between 0 and 200 PA1 copper between 0 and 60 PA1 nitrogen between 0 and 15, the remainder being iron and residual impurities, said steel being obtained by hot rolling at a final rolling temperature exceeding the Ar.sub.3 point to obtain a strip, which is coiled at a temperature higher than 600 degrees Celsius and, after cold rolling, is subjected to a recrystallization annealing.

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