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Equipment for trapping particulates in engine exhaust gas

Patent ·
OSTI ID:6232545

A trap is described for automotive exhaust particulates comprising: a honeycomb filter body having thin gas filtering internal walls defining parallel inlet passages open at one end of the main filter body and closed at the other end and parallel outlet passages closed at the one end and open at the other end. Each of the internal walls lies between the inlet passages and the outlet passages and forms a filtration structure for gas flow from the inlet passages to the outlet passages. The internal walls are made of cellular ceramics having a three-dimensional network skeleton with a pore size in a range of the order of from about 40 mesh to about 100 mesh for collision trapping of the particulates sand the thickness of the internal walls being somewhat proportional to pore size and in a range of the order of from about 1.4 mm to about 7 mm.

Assignee:
Nippondenso Co., Ltd., Kaiya
Patent Number(s):
US 4662911
OSTI ID:
6232545
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English