Exhaust emissions filtering system
OwnerJoseph P. Freijeinventor
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Abstract
An exhaust emissions filtering system for filtering of particulate matter from a flow of exhaust. The exhaust emissions filtering system comprises an ultrasonic transducer unit, an ultraviolet light unit, a magnetic particle filter unit, and an electronic control unit. The exhaust emissions filtering system removes particulates from exhaust emissions by fracturing the particles with the ultrasonic transducer unit, further breaking down the fractured particles with a high-intensity ultraviolet light, and removing the particles with an electrostatic mesh that is located in the magnetic particle filter unit.
Claims18
An exhaust emissions particle filtering system, comprising:
- an ultrasonic transducer unit having at least one ultrasonic transducer for applying ultrasonic energy to particulates in a flow of exhaust;
- an ultraviolet light unit having at least one ultraviolet light for breaking down the particulates in said flow of exhaust;
- a magnetic particle filtering unit having at least one magnetic rod for creating a magnetic field and a mesh screen surrounding said at least one magnetic rod for capturing particulates attracted by said magnetic field;
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- an electronic control unit electrically connected with said ultrasonic transducer unit, said ultraviolet light unit and said magnetic particle filtering unit thereby providing electrical energy to said exhaust particle filtering system.
A method of filtering particulate materials from a flow of exhaust emissions, comprising the steps of.
- directing said flow of exhaust emissions into an ultrasonic transducer unit;
- fracturing particles contained in said flow of exhaust emissions with at least one ultrasonic transducer in said ultrasonic transducer unit;
- directing said flow of exhaust emissions from said ultrasonic transducer unit to an ultraviolet light unit;
- exposing said flow of exhaust emissions to ultraviolet light with at least one ultraviolet light in said ultraviolet light unit, said ultraviolet light being used to further break down the particulates in said flow of exhaust emissions;
- directing said flow of exhaust emissions from said ultrasonic transducer unit to a magnetic particle filtering unit;
- removing said particulate materials in said flow of exhaust emissions by attracting said particulate materials to a magnetic field generated by at least one magnetic rod and then capturing said particulate materials in a mesh screen that surrounds each respective magnetic rod;
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- controlling said ultrasonic transducer unit, said ultraviolet light unit and said magnetic particle filtering unit with an electronic control unit.
An exhaust filtering system for use in an exhaust line of an internal combustion engine, comprising:
- an ultrasonic transducer unit for fracturing particulates in a flow of exhaust;
- an ultraviolet light unit for further breaking down particles in said flow of exhaust;
- a magnetic particle filtering unit that attracts and captures particulates in said flow of exhaust;
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- an electronic control unit electrically connected with said ultrasonic transducer unit, said ultraviolet light unit, and said magnetic particle filtering unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.