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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2016
Eberspächer North America Inc., Novi, MI (US);
Mark Dennis Bugnell, South Lyon, MI (US);
John Francis Padalis, Belleville, MI (US);
Jack Hall Riddle, II, Brighton, MI (US);
Timothy Edward Fensch, Allen Park, MI (US);
Eberspächer North America Inc., Novi, MI (US);
Abstract
A mixer for an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine, for mixing a reactant with an exhaust gas flow, includes guide blade portions, fold webs and spacer webs. The guide blade portions are provided as guide blade pairs including a first blade portion connected to a second guide blade portion by at least one of the fold webs and folded at the at least one of the fold webs such that the first blade portion is disposed extending adjacent to and spaced from the second guide blade portion. Each of the guide blade pairs is connected to at least one adjacent guide blade pair by at least one of the spacer webs. The fold webs are disposed centrally and located adjacent to each other in an annular pattern of adjacent fold webs and the spacer webs are disposed peripherally spaced apart from each other about a circumference of the mixer.