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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2012
Applicant:
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Inventors:
Andrew George Bellis, Plymouth, MI (US);
Roger Khami, Troy, MI (US);
David S. Moyer, Sterling Heights, MI (US);
Erik Henry Hermann, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F02M 25/08 (2006.01); F02M 33/02 (2006.01); B01D 53/04 (2006.01); B01J 20/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B01D 53/0407 (2013.01); F02M 25/0854 (2013.01); B01D 2253/102 (2013.01); B01D 2253/108 (2013.01); B01D 2253/20 (2013.01); B01D 2253/25 (2013.01); B01D 2257/702 (2013.01); B01D 2259/4516 (2013.01);
Abstract
A hydrocarbon (HC) trap positioned in an intake conduit of an engine is provided. The HC trap includes a stack of consecutively layered polymeric sheets with at least a portion of the sheets impregnated with a HC vapor adsorption/desorption material, the stack of sheets extending from a first exterior surface to a second exterior surface.