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US 9,427,685 B2Granted
Suction filter media overmolded integrally with tray
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsLev Pekarsky, John S. Kozar
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Abstract
A filter assembly includes a housing including a first cover and a second cover, a grid located in the housing including interconnected ribs and strips, and filter media integral with the grid, including a peripheral width located between the covers.
Claims16
A filter assembly, comprising:
- a housing including a first cover, having an inlet, secured to a second cover, having an outlet;
- a grid within the housing including mutually interconnected ribs and strips;
- filter media integral with the grid, including a periphery secured to and contacting the housing, the ribs on one of a fluid filtered and a fluid unfiltered side of the filter, and the strips on the opposite side of the filter.
A filter assembly, comprising:
- a housing having an inlet and an outlet;
- and
- a subassembly in the housing, including a grid of mutually spaced ribs and mutually spaced strips secured to ribs at interconnections defining gaps, and a filter media overmolded integrally with the grid, secured in the gaps, the ribs on one of a fluid filtered and a fluid unfiltered side of the filter and the strips on the opposite side of the filter.
A filter assembly, comprising:
- a housing including a first cover, having an inlet, secured to a second cover, having an outlet;
- a subassembly within the housing, including a grid of mutually spaced ribs and mutually spaced strips, each strip secured to the ribs at interconnections defining gaps, and a filter media, having fluid filtered and unfiltered sides, overmolded integrally with the grid, located in the gaps, and including a periphery secured to and contacting the housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.