Exhaust housing part of a motor vehicle, particularly for an exhaust muffler or an exhaust gas catalyst
US6892852B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Feb 12, 2002 |
| Grant date | May 17, 2005 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 8, 2023 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10T29/49398
- WIPO fieldEnvironmental technology
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
In an exhaust housing part of a motor vehicle, particularly for an exhaust muffler or an exhaust gas catalyst of an automobile, with a sheet blank as a semi-finished part which, after a stamping process in a tool, forms an upper half shell or a lower half shell of a half-shell muffler or catalyst; or after a wrapping process in a tool, forms a wrapped exhaust gas funnel or cylinder, or an exhaust gas pipe connection; it is proposed to prefabricate the sheet blank as an integral, profiled sheet metal part of differing thickness, with at least one strip section of smaller thickness, and at least one strip section of greater thickness which locally reinforces the finished exhaust housing part (half shell, funnel, cylinder or pipe connection) at least in one wall region.
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