And Multi-passage Patents (Class 181/275)
  • Patent number: 11788448
    Abstract: An exhaust silencer includes a housing defining an interior and a tube disposed in the interior and defining an opening. A gas-flow deflector is configured to heat shield an interior wall of the housing from exhaust gases exiting the opening. The deflector has a deflector plate and a riser. The riser has a first portion connected to the interior wall and a second portion connected to a backside of the deflector plate to suspend the deflector plate in the interior such that the backside is completely spaced from the interior wall to form an insulating airgap therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Luis Felipe Blas Martinez, Ricardo Daniel Sanchez Lugo, Miguel Angel Leon Guerrero, Virginia Ortega Conde, Kristian Ulyses Flores Aviña, Lucas Apandi Phan
  • Patent number: 11643953
    Abstract: An exhaust muffler for an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine, especially for a vehicle, includes a muffler housing with a flow volume (42), through which exhaust gas can flow, an exhaust gas inlet (28) and an exhaust gas outlet (36). A first resonator chamber (44) is open towards the flow volume (42) via a first resonator neck (68). A second resonator chamber (46) is open towards the flow volume (42) via a second resonator neck (74). A resonator pipe (52) provides the first resonator neck (68) and the second resonator neck (74).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: PUREM GMBH
    Inventors: Nicolas Mettenleiter, Thomas Uhlemann, Frank Berkemer
  • Patent number: 11614010
    Abstract: A panel assembly includes a panel member, a frame member, and at least one first bar member, and at least one second bar member. The at least one first bar member and the at least one second bar member divide the panel member into a plurality of first areas defining a first height and a first width. The panel assembly also includes a plurality of support arrangements for dividing each first area into a plurality of second areas. Each support arrangement includes a first support member defining a first length such that the first width defined by the first area is greater than the first length. Each support arrangement also includes a second support member defining a second length such that the first height defined by the first area is greater than the second length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel S. Kumar, Courtney E. Strauser, Scott M. Peters, Theron J. Cassidy
  • Patent number: 11193405
    Abstract: A combined exhaust gas noise silencer consisting of a system of hollow elements with a mutual housing comprising a front face of the silencer connected to the supply pipe of exhaust gases, and a rear face of the silencer with an outlet from the rear face of the silencer, where the original—inlet exhaust gas (?p) carrying a noise wave is divided into at least two flows—an exhaust gas flow (?z) carrying a shifted noise wave with delayed wave length, and an exhaust gas flow (?n) carrying a non-shifted noise wave, which are subsequently combined into a common exhaust gas flow (?s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Inventors: Zden{hacek over (e)}k Mach, Zde{hacek over (n)}ka Machová
  • Patent number: 10724818
    Abstract: The disclosed invention provides a method and suppressor assembly that allows a suppressor to be used in combination and interchangeably with a blank firing adaptor. The assembly comprises a muzzle mount, an elongate member, an end cap, an outer tube, and an a blank firing adaptor that is configured to be fastened to the front end of the muzzle mount and disposed within the suppressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Inventor: Perry Turner Llewellyn
  • Patent number: 10167756
    Abstract: A muffler for an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine includes a housing with a circumferential wall. At least one resonator chamber (48) is defined by the circumferential wall and two base walls (28, 22), that are provided in the housing. At least one resonator pipe (50), with a first pipe end (51) and with a second pipe end (56), is connected to one of the base walls (28) in the area of a first opening (52) in the one of the base walls (28). In the alternative or in addition the one of the base walls (28) traverses an interior space such that the first pipe end (51) lies outside of the resonator chamber (48), with the second pipe end (56) being fixed to the other base wall (22).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Eberspächer Exhaust Technology GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Michael Marquardt-Stammberger, Roland Schwarz, Thomas Uhlemann, Mathias Rothfuß, Martin Straehle, Benjamin Roehr
  • Patent number: 9175648
    Abstract: An intake silencer device is described herein. The intake silencer device includes an outer housing and a plurality of sequential arranged expansion chambers separated by walls. The intake silencer device further includes an inner tube positioned in each of the sequential chambers, each of the inner tubes including an opening providing fluidic communication between an interior of the tube and the corresponding expansion chamber, a size of the openings increasing in size sequentially in a downstream direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Victor Dobrin, Aamir Asgharali Marvi, Darrell Dwight Huddleston, Lloyd Anthony Bozzi
  • Patent number: 9102231
    Abstract: A wave suppression structure for a fuel tank is provided in which a wave suppression member (37) disposed in the interior of a tank main body of the fuel tank is formed from a basket-shaped container (38) and cylindrical porous members (39), the basket-shaped container (38) being formed from two members, first and second half bodies (38L, 38R), two of the porous members (39) being supported in the interior of each of the first and second half bodies (38L, 38R), wherein the wave supporting member (37) is supported on a fuel suction pipe (36) by joining the first and second half bodies (38L, 38R) of the basket-shaped container (38) so as to sandwich a fuel suction pipe (36) between a through hole (38f) thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Nifco Inc.
    Inventors: Takeaki Nakajima, Daisuke Nohara, Kiyofumi Shida, Shinya Murabayashi, Hiroaki Watanabe, Kengo Kobayashi, Seiji Yagura
  • Patent number: 8991553
    Abstract: A silencing apparatus for a vehicle includes: a muffler (1; 20; 30; 40) having a flattened sectional shape; an inlet pipe (7; 26; 36; 46); an outlet pipe (8; 27; 37; 47); and at least one partition plate (2, 3; 21, 22; 31, 32; 41, 42) that divides the inside of the muffler (1; 20; 30; 40) into a plurality of sound-deadening chambers. Each of the at least one partition plate (2, 3; 21, 22; 31, 32; 41, 42) has at least one communication hole. Within the muffler (1; 20; 30; 40), at least one among an opening of the inlet pipe (7; 26; 36; 46), an opening of the outlet pipe (8; 27; 37; 47), and the at least one communication hole is disposed at a position that is apart by a length equal to a half of the width of the muffler (1; 20; 30; 40) from one end of the muffler (1; 20; 30; 40) in the width direction thereof, and at least one among them is disposed at a position that is apart by a length equal to a quarter of the width from one end of the muffler (1; 20; 30; 40) in the width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Wakatsuki, Nakaya Takagaki, Hideyuki Komitsu
  • Patent number: 8820475
    Abstract: An exhaust muffler for an internal combustion engine including a housing having a sidewall, a first end plate and a second end plate spaced apart and located opposite the first end plate. A plurality of partitions may be disposed within the housing defining a plurality of chambers, including a resonator chamber, a cross-flow chamber, and an outlet chamber. An inlet pipe may be disposed through the housing into the resonator chamber and in fluid communication with the cross-flow chamber, the inlet pipe having a bend in the resonator chamber, wherein the inlet pipe is in fluid communication with the resonator chamber through a resonator aperture located in the bend. A resonator tube may be in fluid communication with the cross-flow chamber and the outlet chamber. An outlet pipe may be disposed through the housing and in fluid communication with the outlet chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventor: Rajdeep Pradhan
  • Patent number: 8746401
    Abstract: A muffler for raising the audible pitch of an internal combustion engine's exhaust note that includes an enclosed case having an inlet and an outlet, and a plurality of flow-directing components which are adapted to subdivide an inlet flow into a plurality of discrete interior flows, including a first interior flow providing the shortest flow length through the muffler between the inlet and the outlet, a second interior flow having a flow length at least about twice the length of the first interior flow, and one or more intermediate flows following by-pass passages to split off from the second interior flow between the inlet and the outlet and having flow lengths between the flow lengths of the first and second flows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Inventor: Boyd L. Butler
  • Patent number: 8550210
    Abstract: A muffler comprising an inner pipe having one end connected to an upstream side of an exhaust pipe of an engine exhaust system, and another end connected to a downstream side of the exhaust pipe, an outer pipe covering at least part of the inner pipe, a hole being formed in a pipe wall of the inner pipe, a resonance chamber formed in a space between the inner pipe and the outer pipe, and a connection passage formed on an outer peripheral surface of the inner pipe along an axial direction of the inner pipe. The connection passage comprising a plurality of sections connected in series to form the connection passage as a single continuous passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takaharu Kondou
  • Patent number: 8397493
    Abstract: One or more methods for recovering waste heat from a combustion system performing a first operation and a second operation with the waste heat are provided herein. The method can include providing exhaust from a combustion system performing the first operation to an inner housing of a heat recovery silencer. Heat can be transferred from the exhaust to a heat transfer fluid in a heat recovery flow path to form a heated heat transfer fluid. The heat recovery flow path can be formed between the inner housing and an outer housing of the heat recovery silencer to form a heated heat transfer fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Maxim Silencers, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert E. Cone, Mitzi Jones Gass, Matthew Wayne Wishert
  • Patent number: 8256571
    Abstract: A muffler for raising the audible pitch of an internal combustion engine's exhaust note that includes an enclosed case having an inlet and an outlet, and a plurality of flow-directing components which are adapted to subdivide an inlet flow into a plurality of interior flows, including a first interior flow providing the shortest flow length through the muffler between the inlet and the outlet, a second interior flow having a flow length at least about twice the length of the first interior flow, and one or more intermediate flows following by-pass passages to split off from the second interior flow between the inlet and the outlet and having flow lengths between the flow lengths of the first and second flows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Inventor: Boyd L. Butler
  • Patent number: 8172039
    Abstract: A muffler for a vehicle may include a plurality of baffles to form a plurality of chambers, an exhaust gas inflow pipe having an outlet connected to one of the chambers inside the muffler housing through the baffles, an intermediate pipe disposed in parallel with the exhaust gas inflow pipe in the muffler housing through the baffles to fluid connect at least two chambers and a plurality of exhaust gas outflow pipes having an inlet positioned with an outlet of the intermediate pipe in any one chamber divided by the baffles and an outlet protruding outward through the muffler housing, without passing through the baffles, such that the exhaust gas passing through the intermediated pipe may be discharged outside the muffler housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Kichul Park, Deagil Hwang
  • Patent number: 8136629
    Abstract: In a muffler which includes an outer tube which configures an outer wall, an inner tube provided in the outer tube and having punching holes formed therein, and a sound absorbing material filled between the outer tube and the inner tube, and which is attached to an exhaust pipe for exhausting exhaust gas from an engine, the number of punching holes at portions of the inner tube which have a great length to the outer tube is set greater than the number of punching holes at portions of the inner tube which have a small length to the outer tube in comparison with the portions having the great length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke Inoue, Satoshi Matsushima
  • Patent number: 8016071
    Abstract: A multi-stage low pressure drop muffler for a compressor including a first plate having a hole, a tube attached to the first plate, a plurality of holes disposed around the circumference of the tube, a plurality of tubes extending through a second plate, and an internal ring disposed on the second plate between the center of the second plate and the plurality of tubes. The muffler is designed to muffle a wide range of frequencies, minimize pressure reduction, improve fluid flow, and improve compressor efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Trane International Inc.
    Inventors: Ferdy Martinus, Gang Wang, Thomas J. Benedict, Brad A. Boecker, William B. Rockwood
  • Patent number: 7980357
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for exhaust silencers for engines, such as microturbines, are described. An exhaust silencer reduces noise produced by an engine. While passing through an exhaust silencer, an exhaust stream from the engine makes one or more turns, thereby reducing turbine noise. An exhaust silencer includes a body, a cavity in the body, a baffle plate that partially divides the central cavity, an inlet port formed in a first surface of the body, and an outlet port formed in a second surface of the body. The inlet port is configured to receive an exhaust stream that flows through the cavity, around the baffle plate. The outlet port is configured to discharge the exhaust stream from the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: OfficePower, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew J. Edwards
  • Patent number: 7955408
    Abstract: This Invention relates to a kind of devices with no emission resulted for treatment of exhaust gas. The Device comprises a vessel having openings that serve only as inlet. At least two exchange sections are provided inside the vessel after inlet of exhaust gas. There is a gas chamber at each connection part between two sequential sections. The gas exchange chamber at the first gas exchange section has a through opening leading to outside atmosphere area, and at each one from the second to the last exchange section, there is a feedback pipe to connect to the inlet of the first stage of exchange section. With this configuration, on entering into the exchange section, exhaust gas will be ejected inwards and causes very strong entrainment, which makes the gas chamber become vacuum and sucks air with oxygen from atmosphere into gas chamber via the through opening to atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Inventor: Yuguang Zhang
  • Patent number: 7942238
    Abstract: A marine muffler comprises an elongate cylindrical housing having an inlet and an outlet and defining an internal volume partitioned, by an angularly disposed internal baffle, into a lower chamber in communication with the inlet and an upper chamber in communication with the outlet. A vertically disposed duct is insertably secured to the baffle to allow exhaust gas and exhaust cooling water to flow from the lower inlet chamber to upper outlet chamber. The exhaust duct may preferably be further adapted with internal structure forming a plurality of individual flow conduits or passages. The duct is preferably positioned such that a plurality of flow passage inlets are positioned in proximity to the lower cylindrical housing wall, with flow passage outlets positioned in proximity to the upper housing wall. The lower duct wall may further be adapted with sidewall apertures for improving exhaust flow dynamics therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Inventors: Woodrow Woods, Darrin Woods, Craig McLeod
  • Patent number: 7918311
    Abstract: A muffling chamber is located between a first main body wall and a second main body wall with respect to a height direction. An outflow pipe includes: a first opening that connects an outflow passage with a muffling chamber in the vicinity of a first main body wall; and a second opening that connects the outflow passage with the muffling chamber in the vicinity of a second main body wall. The liquid staying on the first main body wall of a first muffler flows into the outflow passage through the first opening. The liquid staying on a second main body wall of a second muffler flows into the outflow passage through a second opening. Therefore, the symmetry of the first muffler and the second muffler is compatible with anti-corrosion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koji Matsueda, Tomoyuki Tsuji
  • Patent number: 7896127
    Abstract: A muffler unit for a general-purpose engine includes a muffler (40) having a maze of sound-deadening chambers (101, 102, 103) defined therein and an inlet pipe (85) disposed inside the muffler. The inlet pipe has an open end (106) connected to an exhaust port of the engine via an exhaust pipe (43), a closed end (107) opposite to the open end, and perforations (108) provided near the open end and connecting an internal space of the inlet pipe and a first sound-deadening chamber (101). The closed end of the inlet pipe is exposed to the outside air, so that exhaust gasses are cooled when the gasses impinge on the closed end of the inlet pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Sato, Kazuhiro Sakamoto, Gaku Naoe, Souhei Honda
  • Patent number: 7874401
    Abstract: An exhaust muffler (1) is provided for an at least partly dual-flow exhaust system of an internal combustion engine, especially of a motor vehicle. The exhaust muffler has a housing (2), which encloses an interior space (3), with two exhaust pipes (6), through which exhaust gas can flow in parallel, and which are each led through the interior space (3), and which have a side opening (8) each within the housing (2). A neck body (9) connects the two side openings (8) of the exhaust pipes (6) in a communicating manner to form a Helmholtz resonator with the interior space (3) of the housing (2), which interior space (3) acts as a resonance volume (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: J. Eberspächer GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Uhlemann, Peter Gorke
  • Patent number: 7857095
    Abstract: This invention relates to a kind of devices with trace emission resulted for treatment of exhaust gas. The device comprises a vessel having only one opening that serves as inlet. At least two gas exchange sections in sequence are provided inside the vessel after inlet of exhaust gas, between two gas exchange sections there is a gas mixture chamber at their connection part. The gas exchange chamber at first gas exchange section has a through opening leading to outside atmosphere area. With this configuration, on entering into the gas exchange section, exhaust gas will be ejected inwards and causes very strong entrainment, which makes the gas chamber become vacuum and sucks air with oxygen from atmosphere into gas chamber via the through opening to atmosphere. Formed high-pressure gas is burned furiously with combustible gas in the gas chamber at next stage, and the remaining exhaust gas is transferred into next gas exchange section with very high-speed revolution occurring on exhaust gas and momentum transfer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Inventor: Yuguang Zhang
  • Patent number: 7849960
    Abstract: The invention relates to a silencer for an airborne sound conducting pipe system, including a housing enclosing an interior space, an inlet pipe having an outlet within the interior space, a bypass pipe branching off from inlet pipe within the housing and having an outlet, a control element actuated by the gas flow and arranged downstream of bypass pipe on or in the inlet pipe, and at least one outlet pipe having an inlet within the interior space. Furthermore, the interior space is acoustically unseparated in such a manner that the volume of the interior space loaded with the airborne sound is equal with opened and with closed control element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: J. Eberspaecher GmbH & Co., KG
    Inventors: Manfred Nicolai, Frank Castor, Jan Krüger
  • Patent number: 7819223
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to the attenuation of vacuum blower noise using a silencer. More particularly, the present invention relates to a low-cost, reliable and efficient silencer for reducing noise levels in adsorption-based gas separation plants from the discharge of the vacuum blower or from the feed blower inlet, to about the 90 dBA level or less, at the silencer opening to the atmosphere. The silencer includes at least one reactive chamber(s) to attenuate low frequency pulsations and at least one absorptive chamber(s) to attenuate noise at medium to high frequency noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Praxair Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Cem E. Celik, James Smolarek, Michael Victor Barsottelli
  • Patent number: 7789195
    Abstract: A variable muffler corresponds to a muffler of an internal combustion engine including a variable valve that controls the flow of exhaust gas. The variable muffler includes a muffler body forming a muffler chamber, an inlet pipe with an opening at the muffler chamber to direct the flow of exhaust gas from the opening towards the muffler chamber, and a muffler-in pipe arranged in the muffler chamber. The muffler-in pipe includes an opening facing the opening at the muffler chamber, and into which the exhaust gas output from the opening flows in a predetermined direction. The muffler-in pipe further includes a slope inclining vertically downwards towards the opening, and extending in a direction different from the predetermined direction. By such a configuration, a muffler of an internal combustion engine having proper driving of the valve ensured can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoki Mabuchi, Norihiko Sawada, Fumihiko Mizuno
  • Patent number: 7770690
    Abstract: A double-flow exhaust system for an internal-combustion engine, having exhaust-gas-carrying pipes and at least one muffler and catalyst housing. A separate end muffler is provided for each exhaust line, on which the end mufflers are both fluidically connected by at least one preferably mountable connection pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Juergen Schorn, Michael Wessels
  • Patent number: 7712578
    Abstract: A muffler includes a case divided into three chambers by two baffles. The first chamber is closest to, and the third chamber is farthest from, the exhaust pipe. An inlet pipe has a first end connected to the exhaust pipe, and a second end in fluid communication with the third chamber. An outlet pipe expels exhaust and water from the first chamber to the exterior. A connecting pipe provides fluid communication between the first and third chambers. The second end of the inlet pipe is above the bottom interior surface of the outlet pipe. The inlet pipe may have holes in the second chamber, above the bottom interior surface of the outlet pipe. The connecting pipe may have holes in the second chamber. The baffles may have holes for the water to flow from the second and third chambers to the first chamber. Also, an exhaust apparatus utilizing the muffler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventor: Hakson Han
  • Patent number: 7708114
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an improvement muffler that includes an improved inlet configuration having first and second sequential chambers with a perforated central pipe passing longitudinally through a central region of both chambers for directing the exhaust gases into the third chamber in which the deflection element is deployed. Additionally, the partition separating the first and second chamber has a hole that enables some of the gas to pass from the first chamber into the second chamber not through the central pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Inventor: Zvi Shaya
  • Patent number: 7621373
    Abstract: A baffle assembly for a hollow cavity is disclosed. The baffle assembly includes a labyrinth that defines a tortuous drain passageway. The baffle assembly includes a vertical portion that abuts an expandable material to reduce the transmission of noise and other vibrations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignee: Sika Technology AG
    Inventor: Raymond D. Helferty
  • Patent number: 7571789
    Abstract: The muffler comprises a tubular shell which is internally lined with a noise-deadening material and is closed at its ends by a front wall provided with an inlet connectable to receive exhaust gas, and by a rear wall. A first chamber and a second chamber, which are separated by a transverse wall having an inlet opening and an outlet opening, are defined within the tubular shell. A perforated inlet pipe extends within first chamber from the inlet to the inlet opening. Gas-piping elements extend within the first chamber and have one end open to the outlet opening, and another end connectable to the exhaust pipes. The inlet opening and the outlet opening are substantially equal in diameter to the inlet pipe, and are interconnected via a toroidal duct that is arranged within the second chamber and is substantially equal in diameter to the inlet pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Supersprint S.R.L.
    Inventor: Alessandro Gilli
  • Patent number: 7549511
    Abstract: The exhaust sound and emission control systems reduce sound and noxious emissions from an automotive exhaust. The system may have an exhaust resonator having one or more catalytic converter elements in combination therewith in a single device. Alternatively, the system may have multiple angularly disposed chambers therein, with a series of swept baffles or guides in one of the chambers, thereby combining resonator and muffler functions in a single device. In another alternative, the system has a series of longitudinal tubes therein in combination with a series of V-shaped guides or vanes, combining catalytic converter, muffler, and resonator functions in a single device. The various elements of the system, e.g., catalytic converter element(s), double wall shell, perforated tubes and multiple flow paths, interconnecting crossover tubes, etc., may be combined with one another as practicable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2009
    Inventor: Gregory M. Marocco
  • Patent number: 7540347
    Abstract: In an exhaust system for a motorcycle in which an engine main body of a multi-cylinder engine has an oil pan on a lower portion thereof, and is mounted on a vehicle body with a plurality of expansion chambers being connected to a downstream side of an assembled portion of a plurality of exhaust pipes that extend out of the respective cylinders of the engine main body, respectively. The muffler includes a first expansion chamber that is connected to the assembled portion and the other expansion chambers that are the assembled portion are disposed on one side of the oil pan. The first continuous to the first expansion chamber. The respective exhaust pipes and expansion chamber is disposed on the other side of the oil pan with the other expansion chambers being disposed to the rear of the engine main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2009
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Taniguchi, Noriyoshi Tsutsui, Nobutaka Wakita, Hidetoshi Takamatsu, Yuji Kashiwabara, Shunichi Nakajima, Tsuyoshi Arima, Hirotaka Haze
  • Patent number: 7506723
    Abstract: The invention relates to a muffler for an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine, consisting a housing having at least one exhaust inlet and at least one exhaust outlet and having at least two pipes at the inlet end or at the outlet end, at least one of which is switchable by a control device at least between an open state and a closed state and is acoustically coupled to a silencer system, such that the silencer system is active when the switchable pipe is opened as well as when it is closed and has a different damping characteristic when the switchable pipe is opened than when the switchable pipe is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: J. Eberspaecher GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Micha Hoerr, Michael Pommerer
  • Patent number: 7503427
    Abstract: A muffler is capable of sufficiently reducing flow noise, discharge noise, vehicle noise, and cabin noise, preventing a pressure loss, and improving output power. The muffler has a muffler body, an upstream pipe that opens in the muffler body, and a downstream pipe that opens in the muffler body. An opening is formed in a side wall of the downstream pipe in the muffler body. The opening consists of many small holes arranged in an elongated area extending in an axial direction of the downstream pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: Calsonic Kansei Corporation
    Inventor: Youhei Toyoshima
  • Patent number: 7445083
    Abstract: An automotive muffler includes an external tube consisting of a first widened portion, a first tapering portion, and a first narrow portion, the first widened section having a sealing wall with a through hole at the front end thereof; an internal tube consisting of a second widened portion, a second tapering portion, and a second narrow portion, the internal tube being disposed within the external tube, a plurality of vent holes being formed in the wall of the second widened portion; an internal guide tube consisting of a third widened portion, a third tapering portion, and a third narrow portion, the internal guide tube being disposed within the internal tube, a plurality of vent holes being formed in the wall of the third widened section that is disposed within the internal pipe; and a plurality of partitions interposed between the first widened section and the second widened section as well as between the second widened section and the third widened section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Inventor: Ching-Lin Wu
  • Patent number: 7438157
    Abstract: A muffler for an exhaust gas system of an internal-combustion engine has an exhaust gas inlet and a first flow pipe arranged inside the muffler and completely penetrating the muffler. A shut-off device is arranged in the first flow pipe, for the shutting-off and opening-up an exhaust gas tail pipe which is situated downstream of the muffler and is connected with the first flow pipe. A second flow pipe partially penetrates the muffler, and has an overflow path between the first and second flow pipes situated inside the muffler. The first and the second flow pipes are connected with the exhaust gas inlet by way of a branching element and the shut-off device is arranged upstream of the muffler in the first flow pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2008
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c.F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Juergen Schorn, Joerg Winkel
  • Patent number: 7426980
    Abstract: An exhaust system for an internal combustion engine having two banks of cylinders by which pulses of exhaust gas are alternately directed to a diverter subassembly. The diverter subassembly, which is located in the muffler, includes a perforated gas decelerator chamber which divides each pulse of exhaust gas between two exhaust outlets and causes a low pressure wave to occur in the exhaust system to enhance scavenging of a subsequent pulse of exhaust gas and thereby improve engine performance and mileage. The muffler further includes one or more cores and may or may not include a dead air space chamber to provide attenuation and tonal balance to the exiting exhaust gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2008
    Inventor: Darryl C. Bassani
  • Patent number: 7416052
    Abstract: In an exhaust system, exhaust manifolds are connected to two banks provided in a V-type engine of a vehicle, respectively, to which front pipes each having a catalytic converter are connected to the exhaust manifolds, respectively. A muffler is provided at an exhaust downstream side of the exhaust pipes, and a rear pipe is further connected to the exhaust downstream side of the muffler. The front pipe has its rear end portion located near a through hole formed in the rear pipe. A path length of one of the front pipes from the bank to the muffler is made shorter than that of the other front pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2008
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoki Mabuchi, Yutaka Nozawa, Eiji Asai
  • Patent number: 7380635
    Abstract: An interference-based exhaust noise attenuation device and method for exhaust flow from an internal combustion engine that generates compressive waves in the exhaust flow. The device includes at least a direct path for the exhaust flow; a looped path for the exhaust flow, with volumes of the direct path and the looped path differing by an amount that results in a staggered rearrangement of the compressive waves in the paths; a splitter that splits the exhaust flow into the direct path and the looped path; and a merger that merges the exhaust flow from the direct path and the looped path. When the exhaust flow from the direct path and the looped path are merged, at least some noise cancellation occurs. In other embodiments, plural direct paths, looped paths, splitters, and/or mergers can be used in various combinations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Inventor: Gregory Leigh Harris
  • Patent number: 7380638
    Abstract: A noise control apparatus for a motorcycle exhaust system. The apparatus includes at least one exhaust pipe assembly having a direct pass-through mode and an indirect mode wherein exhaust gases are optionally directed through noise attenuating means. The apparatus includes at least one valve for controlling exhaust gas flow, a motor, a switch controlling said motor, a wire carrier, a wire connected between the carrier and the valve(s), and a rotary threaded drive shaft driven by the motor for moving the positioner. The threaded drive shaft includes radially extending and circumferentially facing stop means on both sides of said wire carrier. The valve is positioned under the control of the switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Inventor: Barry A. Willey
  • Patent number: 7377359
    Abstract: In a device for noise configuration in a motor vehicle which has an internal combustion engine with at least two gas conduits connected to different cylinders of the engine, the gas conduits are interconnected by means of a cross-flow section formed by a housing which encloses the gas conduits and which has at least two chambers in each of which one of the gas conduits is disposed, each of the gas conduits being in communication with the respective chamber by which it is enclosed by means of a respective cross-flow opening and the two chambers being in communication with one another by means of at least one cross-flow opening which is remote from the cross-flow openings of the gas conduits so as to provide for a phase shift of the sound waves of the gas flowing through the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Marcus Hofmann, Sascha Rossa, Roudolf Starobinski
  • Patent number: 7287622
    Abstract: The present specification discloses a muffler for attenuating exhaust noise from an internal combustion engine. The muffler includes a main chamber, an intermediate pipe, a diffuser chamber, a spark arrester, and an exhaust pipe. Exhaust gases from the engine enter the main chamber after which they flow through the intermediate pipe. The intermediate pipe extends back through the main chamber to the diffuser chamber. The spark arrester is a screen held within the exhaust muffler and removably coupled to the exhaust pipe. Gases flow through the screen to separate hot particles. The exhaust pipe extends within the main chamber, completing a 180° bend within the chamber before exiting the main chamber and the muffler. An outer enclosure may surround the muffler. A method of attenuating exhaust gas noise is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignee: Arctic Cat Inc.
    Inventors: Robert J. Rauch, Ole E. Tweet
  • Patent number: 7281606
    Abstract: The exhaust sound and emission control systems comprise a series of embodiments of devices for reducing sound and noxious emissions from an automotive exhaust. The system may have an exhaust resonator having one or more catalytic converter elements in combination therewith in a single device. Alternatively, the system may have multiple angularly disposed chambers therein, with a series of swept baffles or guides in one of the chambers, thereby combining resonator and muffler functions in a single device. In another alternative, the system has a series of longitudinal tubes therein in combination with a series of V-shaped guides or vanes, combining catalytic converter, muffler, and resonator functions in a single device. The various elements of the different embodiments, e.g. catalytic converter element(s), double wall shell, perforated tubes and multiple flow paths, interconnecting crossover tubes, etc., may be combined with one another as practicable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Inventor: Gregory M. Marocco
  • Patent number: 7243757
    Abstract: An exhaust muffler (1) invention includes an entry chamber (9), a resonator chamber (15), and a baffle chamber (23) positioned in serial order between an exhaust gas inlet (3) that lets exhaust gas into the entry chamber and an exhaust gas outlet (5) from the baffle chamber that lets the exhaust gas exit to the exterior. A pass-through tube (21) provides an exhaust gas passage extending from the first entry chamber, through the resonator chamber and into the baffle chamber; and a baffle system (2,4,6, 8, 10, 12 & 14) located in the baffle chamber, contains a plurality of baffles positioned between the resonator chamber at one end and said exhaust gas outlet at the other end for reflecting sound admitted into said baffle chamber via said pass-through tube, whereby interference patterns of reflected sound are produced that lessen the intensity of the sound that exits along with exhaust gas from said outlet tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Edelbrock Corporation
    Inventor: Karl Bernard Stuber
  • Patent number: 7191868
    Abstract: A silencer for silencing exhaust gases includes an acoustic resonator chamber that serves as a spark arrester to trap burning carbon particles and prevent them passing to the atmosphere. The silencer has an exhaust gas inlet and an exhaust gas outlet. Exhaust gases pass from the inlet to the outlet through a first passage and into a first chamber. The first chamber communicates with an acoustic resonator chamber by means of a connecting passage. The connecting passage is positioned adjacent the first passage so that sparks in the exhaust enter the acoustic resonator chamber where they are trapped. The silencer thus avoids the need for a separate spark arrester, as required by prior art silencers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignee: F.G. Wilson (Engineering) Ltd
    Inventors: Jonathan R. Craig, Samuel J. Kirkpatrick, Graeme H. Mawhinney
  • Patent number: 7174992
    Abstract: A muffler has a main body, and an inner shell spaced radially inwardly of the main body by an annular volume therebetween. The inner shell has an internal volume radially inward of the annular volume. The muffler has primary and secondary parallel paths therethrough, with the primary path extending through the internal volume, and the secondary path extending through the annular volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2007
    Assignee: Fleetguard, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth J. Kicinski
  • Patent number: 7147082
    Abstract: A suction muffler for a reciprocating hermetic compressor, comprising a hollow body (10) provided with a gas inlet and a gas outlet (12, 14), which are respectively in fluid communication with the gas supply to the compressor and with a suction side thereof, said hollow body (10) defining a plurality of chambers comprising an innermost first acoustic chamber (50) in fluid communication with the gas outlet (14) of the hollow body (10), and a second acoustic chamber (51) surrounding at least partially the first acoustic chamber (50) and in fluid communication with at least one of the parts defined by said first acoustic chamber (50) and by the gas inlet (12) of the hollow body (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: Empresa Brasileria de Compressores S.A. Embraco
    Inventors: Dietmar Erich Berhard Lilie, Fabricio Caldeira Possamai, Marcio Luiz Todescat, Filho José Feuser
  • Patent number: 7104359
    Abstract: A muffler having a baffle with angled plates includes a one piece baffle, a container and two end caps. The one piece baffle has at least three different configurations. The baffle preferably has two, three or four plates, namely “V”, “Z” or “W” shapes. Each one piece baffle configuration includes openings to allow exhaust flow therethrough. Each one piece baffle configuration is retained in the container. The container is terminated with end caps on each end thereof. At least one inlet tube and at least one outlet tube are attached to a perimeter of the container. In a second embodiment, the container and baffle are formed from a single piece of material. In a third and fourth embodiment, the inlet and outlet tubes are inserted through plates of the baffle. In a fifth embodiment, balanced tubes and chambers are added. In a sixth embodiment, a corrugated baffle is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Inventor: Joseph R. Zelinski