Patents Represented by Attorney Vincent A. Chchosz
  • Patent number: 6024928
    Abstract: A catalytic converter for an internal combustion engine having a housing provided with an exhaust gas by-pass tube and a valve arrangement that causes the exhaust gas to selectively flow through a catalyst coated substrate to be treated thereby or through the tube so as to exist the converter in an untreated state and in which an actuator is in a sealed relationship with the housing so as to prevent exhaust gas leakage while providing for movement of the valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2000
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Michael Ralph Foster