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Exhaust processor

Patent ·
OSTI ID:6995194
This patent describes an exhaust processor assembly comprising a housing including an interior wall, an inlet for introducing a combustion product into the housing and an outlet for exhausting combustion product from the housing, first and second substrate means for treating combustion product introduced into the housing through the inlet, the first substrate means having an outer boundary. The interior wall of the housing and the outer boundary of the first substrate means cooperating to define a passageway therebetween, and bypass means for distributing a portion of the combustion product introduced into the housing through the inlet to the second substrate means for treatment therein through the passageway. In this way, the distributed portion bypasses the first substrate means without flowing inside the outer boundary of the first substrate means to reach the second substrate means.
Assignee:
Arvin Industries, Inc., Columbus, IN
Patent Number(s):
US 4625511
OSTI ID:
6995194
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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