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Additive dispensing filter apparatus

US7323102B2 · kind B2 · utility

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6References

34Claims

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Assignee

MANN+HUMMEL GmbH · DE

Inventors

Gunnar-Marcel Klein · Weilheim, DE
Markus Kolczyk · Schwäbisch Gmünd, DE
Guenter Jokschas · Murrhardt, DE
Michael Harenbrock · Ludwigsburg, DE
Joerg Kramer · Hechingen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 13, 2005
Grant date	Jan 29, 2008
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 18, 2026

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY10S210/17
WIPO fieldChemical engineering
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

An apparatus for filtering a liquid, with a housing, a liquid inlet arranged in the housing, a liquid outlet arranged in the housing, a filter for removing particles from a liquid stream arranged between the liquid inlet and the liquid outlet, and at least one additive for functionally altering the liquid properties arranged in the apparatus, in which the additive is arranged in the interior volume of the apparatus and is shaped in a colloidally disperse, dimensionally stable, elastic form corresponding to at least one geometric space defined by an interior structure of the apparatus or of the filter for removing the particles.

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