Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Alexander King

Roger Joseph Khami

Jacqueline L Tomlin

Joseph Matthew McCann

Jeff Sean Boulton

Hovie Jarrett Cassell

John Emley

David Moyer

Ha To Chung

James William Ortman

Timothy Dorweiler

Jeffrey Pittel

An air intake system for a combustion engine includes an air intake duct in fluid communication with an engine intake manifold and a conduit component inserted into the air intake duct along a first assembly direction. The air intake system also includes a hydrocarbon (HC) trap secured to the conduit component within the air intake duct. The conduit component defines at least one retention feature to maintain a position of the HC trap such that removal of the HC trap from the air intake duct results in structural compromise of the at least one retention feature. The air intake duct is also configured to shield the at least one retention feature from user access to inhibit user removal of the HC trap.

Tamper resistant hydrocarbon trap for combustion engines

A filter element assembly includes a filter body and an auxiliary filter. The filter body includes a sidewall around a hollow core. Further the filter body and auxiliary filter are both received and held on a support including a base and a cage.

Air filter element assembly for a motor vehicle

An engine intake duct is formed by securing a hydrocarbon-adsorbing element to a frame to form an insert, positioning the insert in registry with a blow-molding core, placing a molten plastic parison and mold around the insert and core, and blow-molding the parison to form a shell engaging the frame to retain the insert with a surface of the insert exposed to a hollow interior of the shell.

Engine air intake duct with molded-in hydrocarbon vapor trap

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Goodrich, MI, United States of America

Alexander King