Muffler, Fluid Conducting Type Patents (Class 181/212)
  • Patent number: 8490744
    Abstract: An object is to provide a combustor that requires a small mounting space for an acoustic damper, that can achieve size reduction, and that can improve the ease of maintenance. A combustor (5) of the present invention includes a combustion cylinder (19) that defines a combustion area (23) therein and an acoustic damper (31) that has a damper cover having an acoustic-damper resonance space communicating with the combustion area (23). The damper cover is provided along the combustion cylinder (19) so as to extend in a direction intersecting an axial direction (L) of the combustion cylinder (19).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sosuke Nakamura, Taiki Kinoshita, Masaki Ono, Keisuke Matsuyama, Kenta Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 8485312
    Abstract: An exhaust pipe including an inner tube for introducing exhaust gas, and an outer tube fitted on the inner tube. Projected portions obtained by radially inwardly projecting plural parts of the inner peripheral surface of the outer tube in the circumferential direction, and extending the same in the tube axis direction, are provided on the inner peripheral surface of the outer tube. A plurality of air chambers partitioned by the projected portions are formed between the outer peripheral surface of the inner tube and the inner peripheral surface of the outer tube, and an intermediate member is provided between the outer peripheral surface of the inner tube and the projected portions. In the exhaust pipe a sufficient noise reduction effect and a prevention effect for reduction of the temperature of an exhaust gas can be obtained even if the exhaust pipe is bent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventor: Akira Sakae
  • Patent number: 8485311
    Abstract: An air duct assembly supplies air from an air cleaner housing to an engine throttle and includes a first duct connected to the air cleaner housing and a second duct connected to the engine air intake. Open ends of the first and second ducts are spaced from one another and the second duct has a flared bell mouth at its open end. The second duct includes a sleeve that defines an attenuation chamber. A flexible bellows overlies the first and second ducts and the sleeve, and extends across the space between the first and second ducts to provide an airtight connection therebetween and flex during relative motion between the air cleaner housing and the engine air intake. A hydrocarbon adsorbing material can be housed within the attenuation chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Steven K. Mackenzie, Eric R. Tucker
  • Patent number: 8479879
    Abstract: The expandable chamber acoustic silencer may be installed at the inlet or outlet of virtually any mechanism that processes air or other gas flow therethrough, to reduce the audible output of the gas flow. The silencer may be used to reduce the noise produced in an air conditioning system, in the inlet or outlet side of an air compressor, or as a muffler for an internal combustion engine, among other applications. The device includes an expansion chamber having adjustable walls driven by actuators installed within the walls to adjust the cross-sectional area of the chamber, with a portion of the walls being formed of a flexible or resilient material to enable such expansion and retraction. One or more microphones are installed at the outlet and/or inlet ends of the silencer and communicate with a controller that operates the actuators in accordance with a predetermined algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
    Inventor: Muhammad A. Hawwa
  • Patent number: 8469141
    Abstract: An acoustic dampener comprises a first wall, orifice plate, and second wall. The first wall separates a first fluid source from a second fluid source. The first wall has a hole for allowing fluid communication between the first fluid source and a first cavity of the acoustic dampener. The office plate separates the first cavity of the acoustic dampener from a second cavity of the acoustic dampener. The second wall has a hole for allowing fluid communication between the first cavity of the acoustic dampener in the second cavity of the acoustic dampener. The second wall separates the second cavity of the acoustic dampener from the second fluid source. The second wall has a hole for allowing fluid communication between the second cavity of the acoustic dampener and the second fluid source. In one embodiment, the acoustic dampener is formed in a combustion chamber liner of a gas turbine engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Shanwu Wang, Fei Han, Mark Anthony Mueller
  • Patent number: 8459408
    Abstract: A radiated sound reducing structure that reduces radiated sound generated in a pipe through which gas passes includes a first pipe and a second pipe that is arranged inside the first pipe and has, on an outer peripheral surface, a linear contact portion that is in linear contact with a portion of an inner peripheral surface of the first pipe. Also, a radiated sound reducing structure in a pipe through which gas passes includes a first pipe and a second pipe formed in a pseudo-cylindrical concave polyhedral shell that is arranged inside the first pipe and has, on an outer peripheral surface, a point contact portion, that is in point contact with a portion of the inner peripheral surface of the first pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshio Murata, Hideyuki Kohmitsu
  • Publication number: 20130140107
    Abstract: A muffler for an intake tract of a combustion engine is provided. The muffler includes a resonator housing, which according to a part segment of an annular body is formed with continuous cross section. The muffler also includes a resonator slide-in unit, which according to a part segment of an annular body is formed with a continuous cross section and which is configured in order to be slid into the resonator housing in a part circle-like movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventor: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
  • Patent number: 8443932
    Abstract: A working machine is provided with a revolving upperstructure, working equipment, an engine compartment, a counterweight, a muffler, and an exhaust path for releasing exhaust gas, which has been discharged from the muffler, to an outer side of the revolving upperstructure. The exhaust path includes a tailpipe connected to the muffler and an exhaust pipe for releasing exhaust gas, which has been discharged from the tailpipe, to the outer side of the revolving upperstructure. The counterweight is utilized for the formation of the exhaust path. The exhaust path includes a passage formed in the counterweight and accommodating an upper end portion of the tailpipe inserted therein with a predetermined clearance formed around the upper end portion such that the exhaust gas discharged from the tailpipe can be guided to the exhaust pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Miyahara, Junya Kawamoto, Yuuki Umizaki
  • Patent number: 8439159
    Abstract: A new and improved muffler for use particularly with internal combustion engines which utilizes a tube assembly composed of a plurality of laterally nested perforated and non-perforated tubes in direct supporting lateral engagement with each other wherein the perforations provide direct communication of exhaust gases therebetween and wherein the tube assembly is supported at opposite ends by frustoconical entrance and exit collars, the larger ends of the collars being crimped or otherwise secured thereto providing a sealed connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Inventor: Alexander Borla
  • Patent number: 8439156
    Abstract: A plastic muffler is configured to provide a controlled mode for releasing exhaust gas pressure during an over-pressurization event. The plastic muffler has a plastic casing that includes at least one pressure relief feature. The pressure relief feature allows exhaust gas to escape from the plastic casing when internal exhaust gas pressure exceeds a predetermined pressure level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Faurecia Emissions Control Technologies
    Inventor: Kwin Abram
  • Patent number: 8439157
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a muffler mounting structure configured to be able to prevent fastening parts from slackening by reducing the thermal conductivity from an exhaust port to the muffler mounting bosses and an engine including the muffler mounting structure. An engine of the present invention 100 includes a cylinder block 101 or the cylinder head 10 constitutes a combustion chamber 105 with a piston 104, an exhaust port configured to communicate with the combustion chamber, and a muffler mounted to an outlet of the exhaust port, wherein the muffler is mounted with a muffler mounting boss into which a fixing part is fitted, and the muffler mounting boss is connected to a fin formed in the cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Makita Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Sugiyama, Tetsuya Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 8424636
    Abstract: A muffler assembly including one or more exhaust pipe(s), a polymeric housing carried by at least one of the exhaust pipe(s); a thermal insulating layer lining the housing interior surface and extending between the housing and exhaust pipe at the housing-exhaust pipe interface; wherein the thermal insulating layer includes a nonwoven fabric; wherein when the fabric is exposed to heat, the fabric increases in thickness to seal the muffler assembly at the housing-exhaust pipe interface and provides thermal insulation to the polymeric housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Daniel P. Jones, Philippe Leboeuf, Karl Paul Maurer
  • Patent number: 8418805
    Abstract: A muffler for a vehicle includes an inner casing, the inner space of the inner casing is divided by baffles to form a plurality of chambers, the inner casing having an entrance defined in one end and an exit defined in the other end, the entrance and the exit communicating with each other. An insulator surrounds the contour of the inner casing. An outer casing surrounds the contour of the insulator, the outer casing being made of synthetic resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventor: Hak Son Han
  • Patent number: 8413760
    Abstract: A muffler for an internal combustion engine includes a first shell includes a flexible portion, an intake conduit, and a second shell coupled to the first shell. The intake conduit extends outwardly from the first shell and is configured to be inserted into an exhaust port of an engine. The flexible portion surrounds the intake conduit. Upon attachment to the engine, compression force is stored via elastic deflection of the flexible portion of the first shell, thereby pressing the intake conduit into the exhaust port such that a seal is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Briggs & Stratton Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher J. Drew, John R. Schneiker
  • Patent number: 8408357
    Abstract: An attenuator for the air inlet tract of an internal combustion engine comprises an unobstructed tube (4) having a surrounding enclosure (9) divided into a primary chamber (11) in fluid communication with the inlet tube, and a secondary chamber (12) in fluid communication with the primary chamber. Two secondary chambers (12, 13) may be provided. The arrangement can be tuned to attenuate a wide range of frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Jaguar Cars Limited
    Inventor: Raymond Cheung
  • Patent number: 8397531
    Abstract: A compressor has a suction port, a discharge port, and an economizer port. A condenser is downstream of the discharge port. An evaporator is upstream of the suction port. An expansion device is between the condenser and the evaporator. An economizer is between the condenser and the evaporator. An economizer line extends from the economizer to the economizer port. A resonator is located in the economizer line and has a first branch and a second branch. A first flowpath length across the resonator through the second branch is longer than a second flowpath length across the resonator through the first branch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Carrier Corporation
    Inventor: David M. Rockwell
  • Publication number: 20130056298
    Abstract: A shell muffler for an internal combustion engine that is formed of a first shell and at least one second shell, which shells are connected at their respective edge regions BS so as to form the shell muffler, each edge region BS having a box-like inner contour KSi, which has four corner regions (E1)-(E4) and a width (B) and a length (L), and an outer contour KSa, and each shell being produced from a shell blank R, which is formed by deforming a sheet metal strip using a deep drawing tool having the shape of the shell, the blank R, after deforming, having an edge region BR with an outer contour KR, said edge region being removed at least partially after the blank H has been cut to size so as to form the outer contour KSa of the edge region BS of the shell, In addition to the box-like basic shape G, the inner contour KSi of the edge region BS of the shell has at least one corner region (E1-E4) which is expanded beyond the width B and the length L of the box-like basic shape (G) and is thus adapted at least part
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2011
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: HEINRICH GILLET GMBH
    Inventor: Klaus Schröer
  • Patent number: 8365861
    Abstract: A muffler unit for a fume extractor hood includes an active noise suppression system, at least one loudspeaker, and at least two microphones connected to a control unit, and a passive noise suppression system having sound-absorbent material disposed between the microphones. The muffler unit further includes a conduit with upper fixing element and lower fixing element designed to be removably fixed to a motor unit and to a conveyor plate of the hood.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Ask Industries S.p.A.
    Inventors: Pietro Massini, Massimiliano Caimmi, Francesco Violi, Marco Vizzaccaro
  • Patent number: 8360199
    Abstract: An integrated mass air flow sensor/broadband silencer assembly comprises a molded body having a plurality of walls formed therein. The molded body is over-wrapped with a layer of acoustic foam that, together with the plurality of walls, define a plurality of chambers within an interior volume of the assembly. A mass air flow sensor can be inserted into one of the chambers. The chambers are sized and spaced to provide a uniform velocity, low turbulence air flow to the sensor, and a minimally-restricted air flow to an internal combustion engine located downstream of the assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Mann + Hummel GmbH
    Inventor: Stuart Miller
  • Publication number: 20130020146
    Abstract: A muffler device for a refrigerant circuit with refrigerant containing refrigerant oil comprises a housing in which an upper muffler chamber and a lower muffler chamber are arranged, whereby the upper muffler chamber has an upper feed opening that can be connected to the refrigerant circuit, and the lower muffler chamber has a lower discharge opening that can be connected to the refrigerant circuit, and whereby a muffler partition is arranged between the upper and lower muffler chambers, said partition having at least one muffling pipe that connects the upper muffler chamber to the lower muffler chamber, and an upper section of said pipe with an upper opening projects into the upper muffler chamber, whereby, at a filling level that exceeds the height of the upper opening, refrigerant oil that has accumulated on the top of the muffler partition can be fed with refrigerant vapor to the lower muffler chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Inventors: Thomas PAWELSKI, Ulrich FOCHLER
  • Patent number: 8356690
    Abstract: An exhaust apparatus is provided with an exhaust gas pipe for discharging to the atmosphere an exhaust gas discharged from an internal combustion engine. The exhaust gas pipe has an upstream open end connected to the sound deadening device positioned at the upstream side of an exhaust gas discharging direction, and a downstream open end through which the exhaust gas is discharged to the atmosphere. At least one of the exhaust gas upstream side and the exhaust gas downstream side of the exhaust gas pipe has a diameter expansion structure expanded in diameter toward one of the upstream open end and the downstream open end. The exhaust apparatus comprises a plate provided in the diameter expansion structure to be held in opposing relationship with the discharge direction of the exhaust gas and having an open portion formed to pass through the plate in the discharge direction of the exhaust gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kazutoshi Wakatsuki
  • Patent number: 8349096
    Abstract: An oxidation resistant, high strength titanium alloy, particularly adapted for use in the manufacture of automotive exhaust system components and other applications requiring oxidation resistance and strength at elevated temperatures. The alloy comprises, in weight percent, iron less than 0.5, or 0.2 to less than 0.5%, oxygen 0.02 to less than 0.15%, silicon 0.15 to 0.6%, and balance titanium. Optional alloying elements are Al, Nb, V, Mo, Sn, Zr, Ni, Cr and Ta, with a total content of less than 1.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Titanium Metals Corporation
    Inventors: Yoji Kosaka, Stephen P. Fox
  • Patent number: 8348012
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a resonator, and more particularly, to a resonator installed at the rear of a turbo charger of a vehicle and combined with a Helmholtz resonator and a groove type resonator to attenuate both high-frequency noise and low-frequency noise. The resonator installed at the rear of a turbo charger of a vehicle to attenuate an inhaling noise includes: at least one Helmholtz resonator having a cavity in an air introduction path extending into a duct so that the cavity is formed in a radial direction of the duct; and at least one groove type resonator provided at the rear of the Helmholtz resonator and protruding outwards in the radial direction of the duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: LS Mtron Ltd.
    Inventor: Ho Jun Hwang
  • Publication number: 20120325578
    Abstract: A muffler 1 comprises a polymeric housing 3 and a support bracket 16 for mounting the muffler on a vehicle. The support bracket 16 is made of a polymer composite material comprising a polymer and fibres and is integrally formed with the housing 3. The muffler is made by a method comprising providing a support bracket 16 made of a polymer composite material comprising a polymer and fibres, and forming a polymer housing 3 by contacting molten polymer with the support bracket 16 to bond the support bracket to the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventor: Fabrice S. J-M Giaume
  • Publication number: 20120312629
    Abstract: The expandable chamber acoustic silencer may be installed at the inlet or outlet of virtually any mechanism that processes air or other gas flow therethrough, to reduce the audible output of the gas flow. The silencer may be used to reduce the noise produced in an air conditioning system, in the inlet or outlet side of an air compressor, or as a muffler for an internal combustion engine, among other applications. The device includes an expansion chamber having adjustable walls driven by actuators installed within the walls to adjust the cross-sectional area of the chamber, with a portion of the walls being formed of a flexible or resilient material to enable such expansion and retraction. One or more microphones are installed at the outlet and/or inlet ends of the silencer and communicate with a controller that operates the actuators in accordance with a predetermined algorithm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2011
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS
    Inventor: MUHAMMAD A. HAWWA
  • Patent number: 8312962
    Abstract: A sound absorber comprises an elongated gas channel, through which a flowing gas passes in operation of the sound absorber; and at least one helical fixture mounted in a longitudinal section of the gas channel. The helical fixture defines a helical gas passage through the longitudinal section of the gas channel. Further, the helical fixture defines at least one longitudinal Helmholtz resonator within the gas channel which is excited by sound waves propagating in the flowing gas passing through the at least one gas channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft-und Raumfahrt E.V.
    Inventors: Jörg Melcher, Daniel Fingerhut, Christian Melcher
  • Patent number: 8307948
    Abstract: A silencer device for a hair dryer comprises a container structure (2) exhibiting a plurality of inlet openings (8), an outlet opening (9) and a conduit (10) connecting the inlet (8) and outlet (9) openings to one another and further comprising a ring (14) made of sound-absorbent material, inserted in the conduit (10) such as to interfere with a flow of air between the inlet openings (8) and the outlet (9) opening in such a way as to at least partly attenuate sound vibrations associated to the air flow. The inlet openings (8) are made on a lateral wall (6) of the container structure (2) and face the axis (X) such as to define an air flow along a first transversal direction to the axis (X) such as to define a flow of air along a first transversal direction to the axis (X), and deviating means (12) arranged in the conduit (10) impress an axial deviation along the axis (X) on the air flow coming from the inlet openings (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Parlux S.p.A.
    Inventor: Paolo Parodi
  • Patent number: 8307949
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an exhaust device has an inner cone stack assembly made up of connectedly overlapping inner cone components with frustums. The inner cone stack assembly is disposed within an outer shell and connected to the exhaust device using contoured flanges to match the contours of mounting surfaces on the exhaust device. An outer cone stack assembly made up of baffle ring retainers having a number of detents and baffle frustums with ears inserted in the detents. The outer cone stack assembly is also disposed within the outer shell. The cone frustums of the inner cone stack assembly and the baffle frustums of the outer cone stack assembly cooperate to break down particles and attenuate sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: MPG Tech, LLC
    Inventor: Linwood von Linsowe
  • Patent number: 8307944
    Abstract: A muffler (1) for an exhaust system (2) of an internal combustion engine, especially of a motor vehicle, with a muffler housing (3), which encloses a housing interior space (5), and with at least one exhaust gas-carrying hollow body (4) with two half shells in a half shell construction. The hollow body is arranged in the housing interior space (5). The two half shells (14, 15) of the hollow body (4) are fastened to one another in the area of a separating plane (16). The assembly of the muffler (1) or of the hollow body (4) can be simplified if the two half shells (14, 15) are fastened to one another by fastening elements (17, 18), which are formed directly on the half shells (14, 15).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: J. Eberspächer GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Reinheimer, Michael Schmidt
  • Patent number: 8307947
    Abstract: Duct sound damper for deliberate reduction of sound waves for a flow machine, particularly for a compressor, with a housing having at least one horizontally extending acoustically reflective back wall and at least one front cover plate. At least one flow channel connected together through inlet opening and outlet opening is enclosed by at least one damper member reducing the sound. The damper member includes horizontal axial stringers, circumferential stringers, the front cover plate, at least one sound-insulating metal element extending horizontal to the flow-guiding cross section, and the acoustically reflective back wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: MAN Diesel & Turbo SE
    Inventor: Richard Büssow
  • Publication number: 20120279199
    Abstract: A muffler for an internal combustion engine includes a first shell includes a flexible portion, an intake conduit, and a second shell coupled to the first shell. The intake conduit extends outwardly from the first shell and is configured to be inserted into an exhaust port of an engine. The flexible portion surrounds the intake conduit. Upon attachment to the engine, compression force is stored via elastic deflection of the flexible portion of the first shell, thereby pressing the intake conduit into the exhaust port such that a seal is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2012
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Inventors: Christopher J. Drew, John R. Schneiker
  • Patent number: 8302732
    Abstract: A silencer, particularly rear silencer, for an exhaust system of a combustion engine, particularly of a motor vehicle, has a housing in which an outlet chamber is located. An outlet pipe arrangement leads out of the housing which on the inlet side is fluidically connected to the outlet chamber. A particularly compact design can be realized if the outlet pipe arrangement is configured as pipe-in-pipe arrangement including at least one deflection pipe closed on one side and arranged in the housing and an outlet pipe led out of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: J. Eberspaecher GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Peter Gorke, Michael Pommerer
  • Publication number: 20120273296
    Abstract: The invention relates to a component (1) for motor vehicles, in particular in exhaust systems or in independent heaters, comprising a carrier (2), wherein the carrier (2) has a predefined structural stiffness and a plate (3) for increasing the predefined structural stiffness of at least a part of the carrier (2), wherein the plate (3) is fixed to the carrier (2) via at least one connection (4), wherein the plate (3) comprises at least one honeycomb structure (W). The invention likewise relates to a method for producing a component (1) as well as a use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: J. Eberspaecher GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Nording, Thomas Tauscheck
  • Publication number: 20120267189
    Abstract: A muffler (1) for an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine, especially of a motor vehicle, has a housing (2), which encloses a muffler volume (7) and has at least one flat wall area (6), with at least one inlet tube (3) and with at least one outlet tube (4) and with at least one bracket (5) for fastening the muffler (1) to a holding structure. A lightweight construction is simplified if at least one wall section (11) of such a flat wall area (6) is formed by a flat lightweight panel (12) with sandwich structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Inventor: Georg WIRTH
  • Patent number: 8292026
    Abstract: A silencer for an exhaust system of a combustion engine, more preferably of a motor vehicle, has two end face bottoms facing away from each other, a closed circumferential jacket, at least one silencer insert, at least one inlet pipe and at least one outlet pipe. At least one of the pipes extends through the jacket into the silencer interior and is fastened to the jacket. The manufacture can be simplified if the pipe extending through the jacket has a cone, if the silencer insert on an intermediate pipe has a mating cone which engages in the cone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: J. Eberspaecher GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Tauschek, Arnulf Spieth, George Wirth
  • Patent number: 8292024
    Abstract: The invention relates to a retainer device for retaining a reducing agent metering valve. The retainer device at least partially surrounds an interior space which is provided for holding the reducing agent metering valve. According to the invention, the retainer device has a sound dampening device which dampens sound vibrations emerging from the interior space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Haeberer, Burghard Kienzle, Siegbert Griesinger, Matthias Horn
  • Patent number: 8251173
    Abstract: An engine includes an exhaust conduit having an exhaust port on an end of the exhaust conduit. The exhaust conduit has an angled inside surface that has a cross section that widens toward the exhaust port. The engine further includes a muffler having a housing with an intake pipe. The intake pipe is inserted through the exhaust port such that the intake pipe is wedged into the angled inside surface of the exhaust conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Briggs & Stratton Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher J. Drew, John R. Schneiker
  • Patent number: 8240428
    Abstract: An aspirator with an integral muffler includes a housing having a top, a bottom and a side and an aspirator chamber and a muffler chamber in the housing. The aspirator chamber includes an inlet, an outlet and a venturi section between the inlet and the outlet, and the muffler chamber has an outlet and an inlet in fluid communication with the muffler chamber duct. A duct extends from the muffler chamber outlet into the aspirator chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Behr America Inc.
    Inventors: Niranjan Humbad, Tom Jerome, Dan Silaghi, Chris Craft, Tikanand Kulkarni, Matthew Morris
  • Patent number: 8240429
    Abstract: A rotor windage noise damping system for an induction motor cooling vent A duct having a duct airflow path has a proximal end opening in communication with the cooling vent and the distal end opening is for communication with ambient air. The duct includes a plurality of baffles. The baffles are oriented in a generally parallel mutually spaced symmetrical or asymmetrical array relative to each other and the duct airflow path. Dimensions for baffle array symmetry or asymmetry, parallel spacing, baffle thickness and baffle inset from one of the duct openings are chosen to restrict distance between adjacent baffles to less than a wavelength of windage noise at selected propagation frequencies, yet provide for sufficient cooling airflow through the duct. The duct may be tuned to dampen selected propagation frequencies by changing the baffle array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Industry, Inc.
    Inventor: Sumit Singhal
  • Patent number: 8230968
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a suction muffler for a hermetic compressor which reduces noise of refrigerant. A plate film operating as a kind of flow resistance is provided on a refrigerant suction passage in various shapes and specific positions. Therefore, the suction muffler can effectively reduce pressure pulsation transferred to the outside and guarantee flow efficiency, although the refrigerant is directly sucked thereinto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Min-Kyu Jung, Hyo-Jae Lee, Bok-Ann Park
  • Patent number: 8220587
    Abstract: A silencer cover adapts to a heat expansion of a silencer even when, for example, the silencer cover has a large size and is attached to the silencer over an area from the front to the rear. A silencer cover is provided for a silencer connected to a downstream end of an exhaust pipe of an engine. The silencer cover is fixed to a fixing support provided to the silencer. The silencer is heat-expanded with the fixing support part fixed as a base. The fixing support part is provided at a front end portion, in a vehicle front-rear direction, of the silencer. With a tail pipe constituting a rear end portion of the silencer, the rear end portion of the silencer is provided with a slide structure in which the silencer cover is slidably supported.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taichi Mori, Hayato Yamazaki, Masashi Koyanagi
  • Patent number: 8215449
    Abstract: A method of controlling a discharge of an exhaust gas from a pneumatic device includes directing the exhaust gas from an exhaust port of the pneumatic device into proximity with a heated portion of the pneumatic device, expanding the exhaust gas in proximity with the heated portion of the pneumatic device to heat the exhaust gas, and discharging the exhaust gas to atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Longyear TM, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Lee Case, Tolulope Kayode Ajibola, Shakeel Khalfan
  • Patent number: 8215450
    Abstract: An exhaust muffler device for an internal combustion engine includes an outer housing which defines a sealed chamber and which is connected to opposite inlet and outlet pipes, and an initial expansion subchamber and a pre-outlet subchamber disposed in the sealed chamber. The exhaust gas enters the initial expansion subchamber and mainly flows to a tubular passage in the pre-outlet subchamber to be exhausted through the outlet pipe. Portion of the exhaust gas flows into the sealed chamber and re-enters into a rejoining region of the tubular passage to be entrained in the main stream, thereby attenuating noise of the engine with minimal reduction of engine performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Inventor: Chih-Chien Chien
  • Patent number: 8215447
    Abstract: An exhaust device in which a portion of an exhaust pipe covered by an exhaust pipe cover is rationalized. An exhaust device of a vehicle includes a muffler disposed in a rear part of the vehicle, an exhaust pipe extending from a front surface of a cylinder of an engine to the muffler while passing along an outer side of the engine in a lateral direction, a first exhaust pipe cover covering an entire periphery of an exhaust pipe front portion located near the outer side of the engine in the lateral direction, and a second exhaust pipe cover covering an outer side of an exhaust pipe rear portion located behind the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Orihashi, Masashi Fukuuchi, Atsushi Eto, Tamotsu Hatada, Ryosuke Masuike
  • Patent number: 8215448
    Abstract: A sound damper for compressed air systems of vehicles includes a housing, an insulator and at least one web. The housing has an air inlet and an air outlet. The insulator is located in the housing, and the web is located in the housing such that it protrudes at least partially into the insulator. Air that flows through the housing from the air inlet to the air outlet is conducted by the web into the insulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: WABCO GmbH
    Inventors: Hendrik Harting, Heinz-Werner König, Thomas Müller, Karl-Heinz Riediger-Janisch
  • Patent number: 8210309
    Abstract: A tube comprises a series of guides with each successive guide smaller than a next prior guide forms an effective funnel with a smaller end extending toward into a larger end of a next adjacent guide. The larger end of the next adjacent guide extends past the smaller end of that prior guide and loops back to taper into smooth connection to the outside of the smaller end of that prior guide therein creating a cavity in the guide. Gas passing rapidly past the cavities causes a Bernoulli effect that reduces pressure within the cavities. Because the mouth of the guides is large, a vortex is induced from a shearing interface between gases within the cavity and the main flow of gas moving down the tube. A less energetic layer of gas is created that buffers tube guides from main gas flow through the tube center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Parallaxial Innovation LLC
    Inventors: Thomas George Schlosser, George Paul Schlosser
  • Patent number: 8205716
    Abstract: An exhaust muffler (1) for an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine, especially of a motor vehicle, includes two front-side end panels (2) facing away from each other, a circumferential jacket (3) closed in the circumferential direction, at least one exhaust muffler insert (4), with at least one inlet pipe (5) and with at least one outlet pipe (6). At least one of the pipes (5, 6) extends through the jacket (3) into the interior (8) of the exhaust muffler and is fastened to the jacket (3). Manufacture can be simplified if the pipe (5, 6) extending through the jacket (3) has a cone (10) at its inner end, if the exhaust muffler insert (4) has a countercone (11) and if the cone (10) meshes with the countercone (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: J. Eberspächer GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Georg Wirth
  • Patent number: 8205715
    Abstract: A muffler combination includes two pipe units each having a cylindrical shell and having an entrance and an exit, an inlet tube connected to the entrance, an outlet tube connected to the exit, and a housing engaged in each of the cylindrical shells, the housings each include three openings formed on one side and two orifices formed on the other side, the cylindrical shells are disposed parallel to each other, and the entrance and the inlet tube of one of the cylindrical shells is located closer to the exit and the outlet tube of the other cylindrical shell whose entrance and inlet tube are located closer to the exit and the outlet tube of the cylindrical shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Inventor: Jhen Yang Lai
  • Patent number: 8205713
    Abstract: A silencer for an exhaust system, more preferably of a motor vehicle, is provided with a silencer insert arranged in a silencer housing. The silencer includes a jacket, with at least one pipe section penetrating a through-opening of the jacket. Through welding of the pipe section to the silencer insert a weld seam formed pressure-tight between pipe section and jacket is relieved of mechanical load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: J. Eberspaecher GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Peter Gorke, Andrei Buchhammer
  • Patent number: 8205714
    Abstract: In a method for adjusting a Helmholtz resonator (10), in which a resonator volume (11) is connected to a space (13) to be provided with damping along an axis (29) via a constriction (12) having an acoustic impedance, the acoustic impedance of the constriction (12) is altered in order to adjust the Helmholtz resonator (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: ALSTOM Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: Bruno Schuermans, Jaan Hellat