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US 2024/0060442 A1Published application
Flow management device
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsAndrew Hitchings, Paul Nigel Turner, Sean Gordon Harman, Daniel Wilden
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Abstract
A flow management device comprises an outer chamber with an inlet arranged to receive a flow in a first flow direction and an outlet arranged to provide the flow in a second flow direction different from the first direction, and a duct arranged within the chamber, the duct having a first end configured to receive the flow from the inlet and a second end configured to release the flow towards the outlet, wherein a cross-sectional area of the duct increases towards each of the first and second ends of the duct.
Claims20
A flow management device comprising:
- an outer chamber comprising:
- an inlet arranged to receive a flow in a first flow direction;
- and
- an outlet arranged to provide the flow in a second flow direction different from the first direction;
- and
- a duct arranged within the outer chamber, the duct having a first end configured to receive the flow from the inlet and a second end configured to release the flow towards the outlet, wherein a cross-sectional area of the duct increases towards each of the first and second ends of the duct.
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