Gas-liquid separator
AssigneesAisin Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHitoshi Okuno, Takami Hosoi, Hiroaki Nishiumi
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Abstract
A gas-liquid separator includes a housing, an inlet in the housing, a flow passage which is in communication with the inlet and through which a water-containing gas supplied through the inlet flows in a vertical direction, a gas-flow director configured to change a flow direction of the water-containing gas flowing through the flow passage from the vertical direction to the horizontal direction, and a gas-liquid separating portion configured to bring the water-containing gas, supplied from the gas-flow director into the housing, into contact with a plurality of separation blades in sequence to separate water from the water-containing gas.
Claims5
A gas-liquid separator comprising:
- a housing;
- an inlet in the housing;
- a flow passage which is in communication with the inlet and through which a water-containing gas supplied through the inlet flows is directed upward in a vertical direction;
- a gas-flow director at an upper part of the flow passage in the vertical direction and configured to change a flow direction of the water-containing gas flowing through the flow passage from the vertical direction to a horizontal direction;
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- a gas-liquid separating portion arranged higher in the vertical direction than the inlet and configured to bring the water-containing gas, supplied from the gas-flow director into the housing, into contact with a plurality of separation blades in sequence to separate water from the water-containing gas.
A gas-liquid separator comprising:
- a housing;
- an inlet on an upper side of the housing;
- a flow passage which is in communication with the inlet and through which a water-containing gas supplied through the inlet flows in a vertical direction;
- a gas-flow director configured to bring the water-containing gas, flowing through the flow passage, into contact with an inclined face to change a flow direction of the water-containing gas from the vertical direction to a horizontal direction;
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- a gas-liquid separating portion configured to bring the water-containing gas, supplied from the gas-flow director into the housing, into contact with a plurality of separation blades in sequence to separate water from the water-containing gas.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.