Filter in a filter housing

US7004986B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• MANN+HUMMEL GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Edvard Kopec · Passau, DE
• Manfred Winter · Bad Rappenau, DE
• Volker Greif · Harthausen, DE
• Klemens Dworatzek · Trier, DE
• Marion Hartmann · Neulußheim, DE
• Karlheinz Muenkel · Bretten, DE
• Jens Haehn · Heidelberg, DE
• Joachim Stinzendoerfer · Speyer, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 23, 2003
• Grant date: Feb 28, 2006
• Expiry date: May 23, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B01D50/20
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A filter has a filter housing and a receptacle chamber in the filter housing into which a filter element is insertable. The filter housing has a housing cover for opening and closing an opening of the receptacle chamber. The housing cover is situated in an area of the filter housing between the oncoming flow side and the outgoing flow side of the filter element.