Motor vehicle pipeline with a mixing element made from a wire structure
AssigneeMan Truck & Bus AG
InventorsThomas Heindl, Frank Tuxhorn
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a pipeline for supplying a gas to an internal combustion engine, with a pipeline cross section forming a passage for the gas and a gas mass measuring device for measuring a gas mass flow. The pipeline is characterized in particular in that it comprises a mixing element made from a wire structure upstream from the gas mass measuring device and in that the mixing element serves for the thorough mixing of the gas in order to homogenize an inhomogeneous flow profile which is present upstream from the mixing element.
Claims17
A pipeline for supplying a gas to an internal combustion engine, with a pipeline cross section forming a passage for the gas and a gas measuring device for measuring a gas mass flow, comprising:
- a mixing element made from a wire structure and located upstream from the gas measuring device, wherein the mixing element serves for influencing and thorough mixing of the gas in order to homogenize an inhomogeneous flow profile which is present upstream from the mixing element, wherein the wire structure comprises a rolled-up band of wire mesh or a rolled-up band of wire weave to form the mixing element or a wire mesh tube is pressed flat into a band and the band is rolled up to form the mixing element further comprising an embossing applied to the band, wherein the embossing is oriented slanting or not perpendicular relative to a rolling plane of the band.
A motor vehicle, preferably a utility vehicle, comprising
- a pipeline for supplying a gas to an internal combustion engine, with a pipeline cross section forming a passage for the gas;
- a gas measuring device for measuring a gas mass flow;
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- a mixing element made from a wire structure and located upstream from the gas measuring device, wherein the mixing element serves for influencing and thorough mixing of the gas in order to homogenize an inhomogeneous flow profile which is present upstream from the mixing element, wherein the wire structure comprises a rolled-up band of wire mesh or a rolled-up band of wire weave to form the mixing element or a wire mesh tube is pressed flat into a band and the band is rolled up to form the mixing element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.