Internal combustion engine silencer
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- US ยท United States
- Patent Type
- Applications(United States)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- SANGO CO LTD
- Publication Date
- 2005-10-13
- Estimated Expiration
- Not applicable ยท inactive patent
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Abstract
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TECHNICAL FIELD
[0001] The present invention relates to an international combustion engine silencer, or a muffler for internal combustion engines. BACKGROUND ART
[0002] Among mufflers to be disposed on the exhaust line of an internal combustion engine are conventionally known ones having a U-turn structure in which exhaust gas is inverted once or more in the muffler. As a muffler having such a U-turn structure, the muffler illustrated in FIG. 11, for instance, is disclosed in the Japanese Utility Model Unexamined Publication JP-U-61-194718.
[0003] The muffler, as shown in FIG. 11, is provided within its housing 101, successively from the upstream side (left side in the drawing) onward, a first expanding chamber 102, a second expanding chamber 103, a third expanding chamber 104 and a resonator chamber 105 partitioned from one another. In the third expanding chamber 104 opens an inlet pipe 106 for introducing exhaust gas into the muffler, and the first expanding chamber 102 is provide...