Abstract: The resonator is configured to attenuate the noise in a duct delimiting an internal channel for the flow of a fluid according to a reference axis, of the type including an annular compartment configured to extend around the channel and provided with at least one orifice forming a neck for communication with the flow channel so as to form a resonance chamber. Accordingly, the compartment has an inner structure with a geometry shaped so as to produce a revolution annular asymmetry of the resonance chamber about the reference axis, adapted to generate a phase shift of an acoustic pressure wave reflected inside the chamber relative to an acoustic pressure wave incident from the main flow.

Abstract: A hinged connection device includes first and second tubular components around a main axis which respectively include a first male hinge member provided with an end head shaped as a spherical segment and a second female hinge member provided with a complementary seat receiving movably inside the end head of the first member. The first member is configured to be housed at least partially inside the first component and to be assembled to the second component throughout the second member. The second member is configured to be mounted around the second component and assembled to the first component over the first member such that the two tubular components are assembled together by the reciprocal intersection of the two hinge members.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an electro-filter for separating a mixture of gas and oil drops including: at least one body including at least one oil/gas separation chamber, at least one emitter electrode, and at least one collector electrode made of an electrically-conductive plastic material. The manufacturing method includes at least the following steps: implementation of a first injection cycle having at least one step of injecting the collector electrode, implementation of an overmolding cycle having at least the following steps: displacement of the injected collector electrode into a second cavity of the same mold or into the cavity of another mold, overmolding at least the oil/gas separation chamber of the body at least on the collector electrode, with an electrically-insulating plastic material.

Abstract: This separator device includes a separation chamber having an inlet and an outlet, an oil recovery chamber coupled to the separation chamber, an emitter electrode, a collector electrode, and an electronic unit connected to the emitter and collector electrodes, for during a charging phase, bringing the emitter electrode to a negative potential, so as to negatively charge oil drops, and bringing said at least one collector electrode to a zero or positive potential, so as to collect negatively charged oil drops. The separator device further includes a pressure-drop generating member in the separation chamber. The oil recovery chamber is coupled to the downstream portion of the separation chamber via a vacuuming port, so that the oil recovery chamber is depressed.

Abstract: In this process, a gas stream containing the oil to be separated is circulated between an inlet zone and an outlet zone, and a calm vacuum zone is created where the oil is recovered and evacuated, after having been captured. According to the invention, the gas stream is passed in contact with a porous media, one face of which is in contact with the calm vacuum zone. The drops of oil are thus captured by the porous media and sucked through this media to arrive in the calm zone. This process is applicable to decanters of oil at impacters and also to cyclone separators, in particular in the automotive field.

Abstract: The separator comprises an outer body of a generally cylindrical shape, having a flat bottom, with an upper tangential gas inlet and an axial gas outlet, in addition to a cylindrical collecting area and a lower storage area for the separated phase. A recessed inner body with rotational symmetry is movably mounted vertically in the outer body, and cooperates with the opening of the upper tangential gas inlet and/or with the start of the axial gas outlet, in such a way as to make the cross section of the gas passage variable according to the height position of the inner body. Application to oil-gas separation, in particular for recovering oil particles contained in the recycled crankcase gases of an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle.

Abstract: A recirculation device includes an air intake duct (3) which is followed by a manifold (6), means for introducing recycled exhaust gases, for mixing same with the fresh air let in. This device is designed to inject the exhaust gases by forming two counter-rotating adjacent vortices (14, 15), owing to a twin tubular mixer nozzle (10, 11) in communication with a common exhaust gas supply duct, positioned tangentially with respect to the two nozzles, placed side by side. The two vortices (14, 15) are self-sustaining to the outlets (7) of the manifold (6). Such a recirculation device is applied, in particular, to an air intake duct (3) of oblong cross section and/or to a manifold (6) with a flattened inlet (5) and/or a flattened plenum (8), in particular for a motor vehicle engine.

Abstract: In this process, a gas stream containing the oil to be separated is circulated between an inlet zone and an outlet zone, and a calm vacuum zone is created where the oil is recovered and evacuated, after having been captured. According to the invention, the gas stream is passed in contact with a porous media, one face of which is in contact with the calm vacuum zone. The drops of oil are thus captured by the porous media and sucked through this media to arrive in the calm zone. This process is applicable to decanters of oil at impacters and also to cyclone separators, in particular in the automotive field.

Abstract: This cyclone device performs diphasic gas-oil separation to remove oil from the recirculated crank cases of an internal combustion engine. Mounted such that it can move vertically inside the cyclone is a body (7) exhibiting symmetry of revolution, particularly one of cylindro-conical overall shape. The body (7) delimits, with the walls of the cylindrical collecting zone (2) and/or of the conical zone (3) for recuperating the liquid oil, an annular gap (13) such that the passage cross section can vary according to the self-adjusting heightwise position of the body (7), as a function of the gas flow rate. The speed of the gases thus remains constant for variable gas flow rates.

Abstract: The invention relates to an oil separator (1) for an internal combustion engine, for at least partially separating the oil from the gases exiting the crankcase of an internal combustion engine, which separator comprises a casing (10) containing therein: an inlet chamber (2) for the oil-laden gases; an outlet chamber (3) for the cleaned gases; at least one intermediate suction chamber (41, 42, 43); and an oil recovery chamber (5) with an opening (50) for returning the separated oil to the engine. The communication interface (53) between the oil recovery chamber (5) and the gas outlet chamber (3) is sized (Ll) in such a way that the pressures in each of the chambers (3, 5) are substantially equal during the use of the separator regardless of the gas flow rate inside said separator (1). The invention can be used in the field of motor vehicles.

Abstract: The recirculation device comprises, inside an air intake duct (3) which is followed by a manifold (6), means for introducing recycled exhaust gases, for mixing same with the fresh air let in. This device is designed to inject the exhaust gases by forming two counter-rotating adjacent vortices (14, 15), owing to a twin tubular mixer nozzle (10, 11) in communication with a common exhaust gas supply duct, positioned tangentially with respect to the two nozzles, placed side by side. The two vortices (14, 15) are self-sustaining to the outlets (7) of the manifold (6). Such a recirculation device is applied, in particular, to an air intake duct (3) of oblong cross section and/or to a manifold (6) with a flattened inlet (5) and/or a flattened plenum (8), in particular for a motor vehicle engine.

Abstract: This cyclone device performs diphasic gas-oil separation to remove oil from the recirculated crank cases of an internal combustion engine. Mounted such that it can move vertically inside the cyclone is a body (7) exhibiting symmetry of revolution, particularly one of cylindro-conical overall shape. The body (7) delimits, with the walls of the cylindrical collecting zone (2) and/or of the conical zone (3) for recuperating the liquid oil, an annular gap (13) such that the passage cross section can vary according to the self-adjusting heightwise position of the body (7), as a function of the gas flow rate. The speed of the gases thus remains constant for variable gas flow rates.

Abstract: The inventive oil separator provided for de-oiling a gas exhausted from a crankshaft case (1) comprises oil collecting means (11) associated with a siphon (12) whose inlet inside the oil separator (7) is encompassed by an oil recovery chamber (13) provided with a perforated wall, at least a small oil recovery hole (14) arranged in the lowest part of the chamber (13) at the exit of the collecting means (11) and at least one depressurising small hole (15) which is arranged in the highest part of the chamber (13) above a clarified oil surface and is connected to the chamber (13) at a depressurising point (16). Said invention is usable for internal combustion engines.