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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Frank Uwe Gödel, Stutensee, DE;
Georg Salzer, Waghäusel, DE;
Assignee:
IWKA Balg- und Kompensatoren- Technologie GmbH, Stutensee, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16L 1/100 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F16L 1/100 ;
Abstract
The invention concerns a flexible pipe element, in particular for exhaust pipes of combustion engines of motor vehicles, with a helically threaded or ring-corrugated bellows, at least one strip wound hose which is coaxially adjacent to the bellows and which is helically wound or comprises several annular segments, at least one spacer which is disposed locally between the bellows and the strip wound hose and a knitted tube disposed on the outside, wherein the pipe element has an overall maximum rigidity of 5 N/mm.