Muffler valve device for vehicle
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
InventorsChintala Chytanya Kumar, Man Seok Oh, Mukesh Reddy Mitta, Kiran V
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Abstract
A muffler valve device for a vehicle may include a chamber fixed at a surface of the wall, a guide rod provided in the chamber and attached at the surface of the wall, a fixing member attached at one end portion of the guide rod and fixing the chamber, a valve disposed slidably on the guide rod between the surface of the wall and the fixing member, and an elastic member located between the valve and the fixing member to provide an elastic force to the valve.
Claims10
A muffler valve device of a vehicle for improving output of an engine, reducing a booming sound, and minimizing flow-induced noise, which is disposed at a wall of a plurality of walls provided at a muffler which exhaust gas inflows through an inlet pipe and outflows the inflowed exhaust gas through a tail pipe, the muffler valve device comprising:
- a chamber fixed at a surface of the wall;
- a guide rod provided in the chamber and attached at the surface of the wall;
- a fixing member attached at a first end portion of the guide rod and being mounted to an end of the chamber;
- a valve disposed slidably on the guide rod between the surface of the wall and the fixing member;
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- an elastic member located between the valve and the fixing member to provide an elastic force to the valve,
- wherein the fixing member is formed as a plurality of perpendicular rods extending toward outside on a center of a portion on which the guide rod is attached,
- wherein an end portion of the fixing member is formed as being bent toward the chamber and the elastic member, and
- wherein a first portion of the fixing member fixes the chamber, and a second portion thereof fixes the elastic member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.