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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2019
Caterpillar Inc., Deerfield, IL (US);
Govind Swaroop, Dunlap, IL (US);
Raghuram Gaikwad, Peoria, IL (US);
Scott Frederick Meyer, Eureka, IL (US);
Bogdan Balea, Peoria, IL (US);
Shawn Richard Herold, East Peoria, IL (US);
Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, IL (US);
Abstract
A base filter for a diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) filter of a header assembly in a fluid reservoir is disclosed may include first and second semi-cylindrical holder portions having a semi-cylindrical walls concluding at abutment surfaces that face and engage when the base filter is assembled. The semi-cylindrical holder portions have one or more mounting tabs extending inward from inner surfaces of the semi-cylindrical walls. The header assembly may include a header with a cylindrical header boss having mounting recess defined therein. The mounting tabs may be circumferentially spaced about the semi-cylindrical walls to align with and be inserted into the mounting recesses of the header boss the base filter is assembled on the cylindrical header boss. Fasteners may be inserted through fastener bosses of the semi-cylindrical holder portions and into fastener bores of the header boss to hold the semi-cylindrical holder portions together and on the header.