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Patent No.:

US 9650932 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2017

Filed:

Dec. 22, 2014

Insulated reductant tank

Applicant:

Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, IL (US);

Inventors:

Theron Cassidy, Peoria, IL (US);

Umakanth Sakaray, Peoria, IL (US);

Brian Cole, Peoria, IL (US);

Assignee:

Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, IL (US);

Attorney:

Baker & Hostetler LLP

Primary Examiner:

Thai Ba Trieu

Assistant Examiner:

Diem Tran

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F01N 3/00 (2006.01); F01N 3/10 (2006.01); F01N 3/20 (2006.01); F01N 13/14 (2010.01); F01N 13/00 (2010.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F01N 3/2066 (2013.01); F01N 13/148 (2013.01); F01N 13/009 (2014.06); F01N 13/0097 (2014.06); F01N 2240/20 (2013.01); F01N 2570/18 (2013.01); F01N 2610/1406 (2013.01); Y02T 10/24 (2013.01);
Abstract

An insulated reductant tank that is arranged so that it has an insulated upper portion and a tapered lower portion, the reductant tank configured to allow frozen reductant to move into the insulated upper portion and reduce the damage that frozen reductant can cause to a reductant tank when the frozen reductant expands. The insulated reductant tank can include at least one header configured to draw reductant from the reductant tank and supply the reductant to an exhaust aftertreatment system, an insulation layer lining an upper portion of the reductant tank, a tapered lower portion, and at least one baffle configured to control a flow of reductant.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Cassidy, Theron. (2017). Insulated reductant tank (U.S. Patent No. 9650932). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/9650932

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