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Insulated engine air cleaner

Patent ·
OSTI ID:5339115

This patent describes an engine air cleaner having a housing with an inlet and an outlet and a filter mounted in an air passage therebetween. The improvement described here consists of the housing having double wall means forming a vacuum chamber extending about the filter, and vacuum establishing means for establishing a subatmospheric pressure in the chamber to thereby vacuum insulate the air cleaner for both heat transfer and noise attenuation with respect to the air passing therethrough.

Assignee:
General Motors Corp., Detroit, MI
Patent Number(s):
US 4605426
OSTI ID:
5339115
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English