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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2002
Gaetano Bergami, Bologna, IT;
BMC S.R.L., Bologna, IT;
Abstract
In a device for filtering the intake air of internal combustion engines, including a tubular housing ( ) with one filtering cartridge ( ) fixed at an end by means of support means ( ) provided with an inlet opening ( ) and fit to support the housing ( ) in correspondence of a lower opening ( ) thereof, the filtering cartridge ( ) is fixed to the support means ( ), near the edges of the opening ( ) so forming a single body, and is internally provide with air deflectors ( ) fixed at the free end of the filtering cartridge ( ) in such a way that the air flow coming from the opening ( ) is forced by the air deflectors ( ) to pass through the filtering cartridge ( ) and comes out from the device ( ) through an outflow opening ( ), passing through the space between the filtering cartridge ( ) and the external housing ( ).