Caterpillar Inc.

Philip Stephen Bruza

Robert L Meyer

Michael James Pollard

John Roger Weber

Darrel Henry Meffert

Ronak Dhanendrakumar Shah

Timothy John Boland

Jonas Arunas Aleksonis

Steven Francis Meister

Thomas V Staley

Loran Hoffman

An end cap for an exhaust treatment device is disclosed. The end cap has a cylindrical housing with an axial direction, a radial direction substantially orthogonal to the axial direction, a first open end, and a second closed end opposing the first open end in the axial direction. The end cap also has an integral port member extending from an annular surface of the cylindrical housing. The integral port member has a central axis aligned in the radial direction, and an exterior surface of the integral port member tangentially connects to an exterior surface of the cylindrical housing.

Exhaust treatment device having flow-promoting end caps

A system for removing matter from a filtering device is disclosed. The system may have a reactive propellant located downstream of the filtering device. The reactive propellant may be configured to generate an impact wave.

Filter purge system utilizing a reactive propellant

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Peoria, IL, United States of America

Philip Stephen Bruza