US 7,601,306 B2
Diesel engine particulate filter
Shinichiro Sakurai, Tokyo (Japan)
Assigned to Lenz Environmental Resources Co., Ltd., (Japan)
Filed on Mar. 27, 2003, as Appl. No. 10/397,175.
Claims priority of application No. 2002-093781 (JP), filed on Mar. 29, 2002.
Prior Publication US 2003/0185719 A1, Oct. 02, 2003
Int. Cl. B01D 53/34 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 422—168  [422/177; 422/180; 422/174; 422/175; 422/178; 422/171; 422/218; 422/181; 422/192; 55/523; 55/524; 55/527] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A diesel engine particulate filter comprising:
a case cylinder connected to a diesel engine via an exhaust pipe having an exhaust stream enhance part and an exhaust stream exit part;
a filter arranged inside said case cylinder for circulating discharged exhaust from said diesel engine and trapping particular matter in said exhaust;
an exothermic catalyst having a low temperature exothermic catalyst of precious metal and a medium temperature exothermic catalyst of a base metal in a state of mixed dispersion thereof on said filter; and
a retention structure for retaining said exothermic catalyst and said filter in said case cylinder,
wherein said retention structure includes:
an inner retention cylinder which extends along an axis direction of said case cylinder and forms at last one communicative connection passageway enabling outflow of exhaust radially outward; and
a star-shaped outer retention cylinder which has alternately a plurality of mountain-shaped parts and a plurality of valley-shaped parts, said star-shaped outer retention cylinder being arranged radially outward of said inner retention cylinder and being formed with micro-spaces to flow the exhaust from an inside thereof to an outside thereof, an inner side and an outer side of said star-shaped outer retention cylinder being shaped like a star and sandwiching a fiber for further trapping residual particulate matter passing through said filter;
wherein the filter with the exothermic catalyst is arranged between said inner retention cylinder and said star-shaped outer retention cylinder, and
wherein said low and medium temperature exothermic catalyst coexists on said filter shaped like a star corresponding to said star-shaped outer retention cylinder, being urged toward said inner retention cylinder by elastic force of said fiber of said outer retention cylinder.