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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 1987
Filed:
Mar. 17, 1986
Douglas C Wintersteen, Burt, NY (US);
General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
An accumulator-dehydrator assembly for an air conditioning system is provided with a desiccant canister outlet fitting having an integral particulate filter cage at one end and an integral neck at an opposite end. The cage is insertable through and the neck is received in a flanged outlet opening in a desiccant canister that is received within the assembly's housing. The neck is also received from the interior of this housing in and sealingly engages with the housing's outlet connector. Both the neck and the flange about the canister outlet opening have radial holes which align and receive an exit end of the assembly's pickup tube arranged external of the canister. The neck and the canister outlet opening flange have cooperating angular alignment means that positively align their pickup tube accommodating holes angularly. The filter cage and the interior of the canister have cooperating longitudinal alignment means that positively align the pickup tube accommodating holes longitudinally. The outlet fitting and the canister also have cooperating detent means that retain the outlet fitting in the canister's flanged outlet opening with the pickup tube accommodating holes aligned.