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US 2014/0209532 A1Published application
Oil filtration system
OwnerGust C. Kepler, Stanley Ray Abbottinventors
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Abstract
According to one embodiment, a bypass oil filter and a filtration element for oil filtration. The housing has an inlet and an outlet and is configured to provide a flow path for oil from the inlet to the outlet. The filtration element includes multiple filtration segments arranged in series configuration with one another along the flow path in which each filtration segment having a filtering density that is greater than the filtering density of another filtration segment upstream along the flow path.
Claims6
A bypass oil filter comprising:
- a housing having an inlet and an outlet and configured to provide a flow path for oil from the inlet to the outlet;
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- a filtration element comprising a plurality of filtration segments arranged in series configuration with one another along the flow path, each filtration segment having a filtering density that is greater than the density of another filtration segment upstream along the flow path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.