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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2013
Johnson Matthey Public Limited Company, London, GB;
David Robert Greenwell, Lower Cambourne, GB;
Johnson Matthey Public Limited Company, London, GB;
Abstract
A catalyzed filter for a positive ignition internal combustion engine comprises a porous filtering substrate having a total substrate length coated with a three-way catalyst washcoat composition comprising at least one precious metal selected from the group consisting of rhodium and one or both of platinum and palladium supported on a high surface area oxide, and an oxygen storage component, which composition being axially shared by a first zone comprising inlet surfaces of a first substrate length<total substrate length and a second zone comprising outlet surfaces of a second substrate length<total substrate length, wherein a sum of the substrate length in the first zone and the substrate length in the second zone≧100% and wherein one or both of the following applies: a washcoat loading in the first zone>second zone; and a total precious metal loading in the first zone>second zone.