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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:
Oct. 23, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 08, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01D 5/000 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B01D 5/000 ;
Abstract
An air cleaning system for an engine includes a main air cleaner for supplying cleaned air to an intake system of the engine and a sub-air cleaner for supplying cleaned air to an exhaust system of the engine. The main air cleaner includes a main air cleaner housing divided into a dirty air chamber and a clean air chamber by a first air cleaning element. The sub-air cleaner is disposed in the dirty air chamber, and has its own second air cleaning element, physically separated from the first air cleaning element.