Canister
AssigneesMahle Filter Systems Japan Corporation, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsHiroyuki Yoshida, Koji Yamazaki, Koichi Hidano, Shoichiro Kumagai, Takahiro Imamura
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Abstract
A canister includes a casing made of a material including a polyamide resin. The casing includes a charge port to let in fuel vapor, a purge port to let out desorbed fuel and an atmospheric air port to let in air. Granular adsorbing agent and granular heat storing agent are held in the casing. The adsorbing agent includes a granular activated carbon. The granular heat storing agent is mixed with the granular activated carbon in the casing, and the granular heat storing agent including the material of the casing.
Claims8
A canister comprising:
- a casing made of a material including a polyamide resin, including a charge port to let in fuel vapor, a purge port to let out desorbed fuel, and an atmospheric air port to let in air;
- a granular adsorbing agent including a granular activated carbon held in the casing;
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- a granular heat storing agent mixed with the granular activated carbon in the casing, the granular heat storing agent including the material of the casing.
A canister comprising:
- a polyamide casing made of a polyamide resin material, and formed with an adsorbing chamber extending from a first end to a second end, a charge port to let in fuel vapor into the adsorbing chamber from the first end, a purge port to let out desorbed fuel from the first end of the adsorbing chamber, and an atmospheric air port to let in air into the adsorbing chamber from the second end of the adsorbing chamber;
- activated carbon pellets of an activated carbon, contained in the adsorbing chamber;
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- polyamide pellets of the polyamide resin material, contained together with the activated carbon pellets in the adsorbing chamber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.