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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2003
Motohiro Suzuki, Osaka, JP;
Tatsuo Fujita, Osaka, JP;
Tetsuo Terashima, Neyagawa, JP;
Toshiaki Ando, Otsu, JP;
Narito Yamaguchi, Ritto, JP;
Yukio Watanabe, Kyoto, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A low-cost, high-mass-productivity catalytic combustion apparatus having a construction that permits easy maintenance is realized. There is provided a catalytic combustion apparatus in which, by means of a combustion chamber having a fuel supply portion and a combustion air supply portion on the upstream side thereof and a combustion gas exhaust port on the downstream side thereof and a catalytic combustion portion with an upstream surface and a downstream surface provided in the combustion chamber, the upstream surface and the downstream surface being substantially parallel to each other, a fuel-air mixture supplied to the interior of the combustion chamber is caused to react to liberate heat. The catalytic combustion apparatus includes a heat exchange portion, which constitutes part of walls of the combustion chamber, and a fin-type radiant heat-receiving portion, which protrudes from the heat exchange portion into the combustion chamber and being provided in the vicinity of the catalytic combustion portion. In this catalytic combustion apparatus, the surface of the fin-type radiant heat-receiving portion and the surface of the heat exchange portion face in the same direction.