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US 11,421,575 B2Granted
Emission treatment component support structure
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsDaniel Neville, Jonathan Mooney, Liam Maloney
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Abstract
An emission treatment component support structure for an exhaust system, the support structure comprising: an insulating layer configured to support a substrate of the emission treatment component within a housing; and one or more resistive metal elements provided at least partially within the insulating layer.
Claims10
An emission treatment component support structure for an exhaust system, the support structure comprising:
- an insulating layer configured to support a substrate of the emission treatment component within a housing;
- and
- a plurality of resistive metal elements provided at least partially within the insulating layer, wherein the plurality of resistive metal elements comprise:
- a first continuous resistive metal element incorporated at least partially within the insulating layer in a regular pattern;
- and
- a plurality of second continuous restive metal elements each incorporated at least partially within the insulating layer in an irregular pattern, wherein the first continuous resistive metal element is in electrical communication with the plurality of second continuous resistive metal elements, and a location of the plurality of second continuous resistive metal elements is configured to correspond to only a part, or parts, of the emission treatment component.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.