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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 1981
Filed:
Aug. 21, 1979
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Pierburg GmbH & Co. KG, Neuss, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F02M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
123549 ; 123548 ; 261142 ;
Abstract
An arrangement for heating the intake pipe of a spark-ignited internal combustion engine with electrical heating elements having a positive temperature coefficient. These heating elements are located on a heating plate which forms part of the intake pipe wall, and are held by a carrier member, rigidly fastened to these elements. This carrier member has several elastic plates, one for each heating element, connected to one central current contact surface. The carrier member is centered in the heating plate and is loaded by a compression spring which is centered in the cover of the housing of the arrangement.