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Exhaust system with thermoelectric generator

US9716217B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Eberspächer Exhaust Technology GmbH · DE

Inventors

Jörg Oesterle · Laichingen, DE
Rolf Jebasinski · Echterdingen, DE
Thomas Nording · Eßlingen, DE
Georg Wirth · Kirchheim unter Teck, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 12, 2010
Grant date	Jul 25, 2017
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 10, 2035

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY10T29/49398
WIPO fieldEnvironmental technology
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

The present invention relates to an exhaust system for a combustion engine, more preferably of a road vehicle, with at least one exhaust gas-conducting component having a ring-shaped closed inner wall in circumferential direction, whose inner side is exposed to the exhaust gas.The energetic efficiency of the combustion engine can be improved with at least one thermoelectric generator which converts heat into electric energy and which is arranged on an outer side of the inner wall.

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