US 7,022,163 B2 · Method of treating air on board on a vehicle, and a device for use when performing the method

Abstract

In a vehicle air is compressed for being used in the brake system of the vehicle, for instance. In the compressor, used for the compression, the air is contaminated with oil and solid particles. In order to be relieved from these particles, before the air is conveyed through a drying filter, the compressed is brought to rotation by means of a rotating member in a centrifugal separator. The rotating member may advantageously include a pile of conical separation discs forming flow passages between each other for the compressed air to be cleaned. By means of an efficient cleaning of the compressed air from particles the life time of the drying filter may be increased.

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Dependent claims

A method of treating air on board on a vehicle, before the air is used in compressed form in the vehicle, wherein the air in a first step is compressed by means of a compressor, which for the purpose of its operation is supplied with lubricating oil, thereafter is conveyed through a particle separator, and finally relieved from vaporised water by means of a filter,

wherein, the compressed air in said particle separator is relieved from lubricating oil accompanying the air from the compressor by being rotated in a separation chamber by means of a rotating member, said rotating member comprising separation discs that form a plurality of interspaces through which said compressed air relieved from said particles is conveyed.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

10/778,624Filed 13 Feb 2004

Priority

SE 030041017 Feb 2003

Published

US 2004/0226442 A118 Nov 2004

Granted

4 Apr 2006

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

B04B 5/12
Other centrifuges: centrifuges in which rotors other than bowls generate centrifugal effects in stationary containers
B01D 45/14
By centrifugal forces: generated by rotating vanes, discs, drums or brushes
B60T 17/02
Component parts, details, or accessories of power brake systems not covered by groups B60T8/00, B60T13/00 or B60T15/00, or presenting other…:…
B04B 2005/125
Centrifuges in which rotors other than bowls generate centrifugal effects in stationary containers: the rotors comprising separating walls

Method of treating air on board on a vehicle, and a device for use when performing the method

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Method of treating air on board on a vehicle, and a device for use when performing the method

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