Power plants – Internal combustion engine with treatment or handling of... – Methods
Patent
1993-07-16
1995-11-14
Hart, Douglas
Power plants
Internal combustion engine with treatment or handling of...
Methods
55466, 55485, 55DIG30, 60300, 60303, 96130, 219205, 219553, 392320, 392490, 422171, 422174, 4232137, F01N 320, B60L 102
Patent
active
054655730
ABSTRACT:
A multi-stage honeycomb heater includes: at least two honeycomb heaters electrically connected with each other and disposed along a stream of fluid; the two honeycomb heaters including furthest upstream honeycomb heater and a an adjacent honeycomb heater which is adjacent to and downstream of the furthest upstream honeycomb heater; each of the two honeycomb heaters having an electrically conductive honeycomb structure the honeycomb structure of the upstream honeycomb heater having slits for adjusting its electrical resistance and/or element for adjusting heat capacity of the honeycomb structure so that the ratio of applied power to heat capacity of the furthest upstream honeycomb heater is larger than the ratio of applied power to heat capacity of the adjacent honeycomb heater. Thus the upstream heater and the downstream heater can give similar temperature increases without a temperature distribution along a flow direction during the engine warm-up. A catalyst composition is coated on the partition walls of the honeycomb structure, and the light-off temperature of the catalyst composition of the upstream honeycomb heater is lower than that of the adjacent honeycomb heater.
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patent: 5146743 (1992-09-01), Maus
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patent: 5259190 (1993-11-01), Bagley
Abe Fumio
Ito Tadato
Ogawa Masato
Hart Douglas
NGK Insulators Ltd.
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