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US 5,211,845 AGranted
Filter housing
AssigneeASKA CORPORATION Co., Ltd.
InventorNoritsugu Kaneshige
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Abstract
A filter housing includes a filter body having an opening, and a lid detachably mounted on the body to close the opening of the body. The lid is provided with a jacket in which is sealed a vapor-liquid two-phase heating medium. An electromagnetic induction heating mechanism having an induction coil is provided to heat the heating medium to vaporize it and heat the lid with the vaporized heating medium. The heating mechanism is fixedly mounted on the filter body so that only the lid needs to be detached from the body when exchanging a filter element.
Claims5
A filter housing comprising:
- a body defining an opening and an interior;
- an inlet communicating with the interior of said body and through which material to be filtered in the housing can be introduced into said body;
- an outlet communicating with the interior of said body and through which filtrate is discharged from the housing;
- a lid detachably mounted on said body and closing said opening of said body, said lid including a jacket and a vapor-liquid two-phase heating medium sealed in said jacket;
- and an electromagnetic induction heating means, including an induction coil, for heating said heating medium to heat said lid.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.