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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2016
Cummins Filtration Ip, Inc., Columbus, IN (US);
Mark V. Holzmann, Stoughton, WI (US);
Arun Janakiraman, Stoughton, WI (US);
Orvin D. Kendall, Cambridge, WI (US);
Scott W. Schwartz, Cottage Grove, WI (US);
Eric A. Janikowski, Jefferson, WI (US);
Michael J. Connor, Stoughton, WI (US);
Kurt M. A. Badeau, Evansville, WI (US);
Murray R. Schukar, Fitchburg, WI (US);
CUMMINS FILTRATION IP INC., Columbus, IN (US);
Abstract
A pleated filter media comprises a plurality of pleats comprised of pleat segments extending in an axial direction between first and second axial ends and extending in a transverse direction that is perpendicular to the axial direction between first and second sets of pleat tips at least partially defined by first and second sets of bend lines. Axial flow channels are defined between the pleat segments in the lateral direction and the plurality of pleats has a width in the transverse direction that varies along the axial direction.