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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2006
Soichi Uemura, Shizuoka, JP;
Wataru Sugimoto, Shizuoka, JP;
Soichi Uemura, Shizuoka, JP;
Wataru Sugimoto, Shizuoka, JP;
Toyo Roki Seizo Kabushiki Kaisha, Shizuoka, JP;
Abstract
There is provided an air cleaner in which an adsorption element for adsorbing vaporized fuel is surely fixed to a housing without additionally providing a special step, and moreover the performance of element and the performance of an air cleaner itself can be maintained, and a manufacturing method for the air cleaner. The air cleaner is configured so that a filter element and an adsorption element for adsorbing vaporized fuel are incorporated in a housing formed by joining the open ends of a pair of housing members to each other. At the open end of each of the housing members, a welding protrusion projecting toward the open end on the other side is formed, and a connecting portion formed with a welding protrusion is provided on a holding frame of the adsorption element.