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Exhaust gas cleaning apparatus

US7468166B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateOct 5, 2004
Grant dateDec 23, 2008
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Expiry dateSep 23, 2026

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T29/49345
  • WIPO fieldEnvironmental technology
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

An exhaust gas cleaning apparatus for cleaning an exhaust gas emitted from a combustion engine has a stack of plural material layers successively arranged on each other in a stacking direction. The material layers are made of a porous material being permeable to the exhaust gas. The stack has an entry side and an exit side. Plural exhaust gas flow channels are defined in the stacking direction between two adjacent material layers in the stack. The exhaust gas flow channels are defined by surfaces of the material layers which have, when viewed in a flow direction of the exhaust gas from the entry side to the exit side, a plurality of concave and convex areas. A first group of exhaust gas flow channels is formed to be open at the entry side of the stack and closed at the exit side thereof.

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