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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 05, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Willie Luther Stamey, Jr., Kings Mountain, NC (US);
Gregory Keith Rhyne, Denver, NC (US);
Assignee:
Dana Corporation, Toledo, OH (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01D 3/534 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B01D 3/534 ;
Abstract
A lubricating oil filter has a housing which includes a first shell providing a housing base and a second shell providing a housing lid, wherein a filter media is suspended in a space defined by the shells by being clamped between a shoulder in the housing base and a rib projecting from the housing lid. The filter media may be either a flat filter media or a pleated pack filter media. In a preferred configuration, the housing is rectangular and has an unfiltered oil inlet in the housing lid which is at one end of the housing and a filtered oil outlet which is at the other end of the housing.