Fuji Filter Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Kiyohisa Kikuchi

Satoshi Arai

Yutaka Yoshida

Takashi Matsumoto

Embodiments of the present invention provide a hollow cylindrical filter for removing efficiently foreign substances from fluids. This is performed by forming complicated passages including an axial direction and a radial direction in the filter. The hollow cylindrical filter is formed by winding a metal wire rod in a spiral and multilayered manner. The metal wire rod includes a recess formed throughout the entire length in a longitudinal direction, or recesses repeated along said longitudinal direction. Some wire rod layers extend in an axial direction of the hollow cylindrical filter while the adjacent wire rod layers extend in an intersecting direction, thereby forming a plurality of communication paths for communicating between the overlapping wire rod layers. Additionally, a space is formed between the recess of one wire rod layer and another adjacent wire rod layer, allowing the plurality of communication paths to communicate with each other.

Hollow cylindrical filter and manufacturing apparatus

A porous metal body is manufactured by which a flow rate of a fluid flowing in an axial direction and a radial direction of the porous metal body can be equalized in the circumferential direction of the porous metal body, and a strength of the porous metal body can be increased. The manufacturing can include at least a step of preparing an intermediary body made of a tubular wire mesh, a star-shaped polygonal body forming step of forming a star-shaped polygonal body by alternately forming, in a circumferential direction of the intermediary body, a plurality of protrusions protruding radially outwards and a plurality of recesses receding radially inwards, and a molding step of inserting the star-shaped polygonal body into a mold that restricts an inner peripheral side and an outer peripheral side of the star-shaped polygonal body and compressing the star-shaped polygonal body from one side in an axial direction of the star-shaped polygonal body.

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Sakura, Japan

Kiyohisa Kikuchi