Exhaust system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10072555-B2
Application number	US-201615388142-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 22, 2016
Priority date	Dec 24, 2015
Publication date	Sep 11, 2018
Grant date	Sep 11, 2018

Abstract

An exhaust system for discharging an exhaust gas of an engine includes a tail pipe 39 provided with a pressure control valve 1 which reduces an exhaust amount of the gas at the time of low load of the engine, and other tail pipe 40 not provided with the pressure control valve 1. An exhaust port 39a of the tail pipe 39 provided with the pressure control valve 1 faces downward as compared with an exhaust port 40a of the other tail pipe 40 not provided with the control valve 1.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An exhaust system of a vehicle, comprising:
at least first and second tail pipes each connected to a power plant of the vehicle and configured to exhaust a gas discharged from the power plant, the first tail pipe being provided with a control valve which is controllable to reduce an exhaust amount of the gas exhausted from the first tail pipe when the power plant is in a low-load operation, the second tail pipe being not provided with a control valve,
wherein the first tail pipe provided with the control valve overlaps with a rear bumper in a view of a rear-to-front direction of the vehicle.

2. An exhaust system of a vehicle, comprising:
at least first and second tail pipes each connected to a power plant of the vehicle and configured to exhaust a gas discharged from the power plant, the first tail pipe being provided with a control valve which is controllable to reduce an exhaust amount of the gas exhausted from the first tail pipe when the power plant is in a low-load operation, the second tail pipe being not provided with a control valve,
wherein the first tail pipe provided with the control valve is hidden behind a rear bumper in a view of a rear-to-front direction of the vehicle.

3. An exhaust system of a vehicle, comprising:
at least first and second tail pipes each connected to a power plant of the vehicle and having respective exhaust ports to exhaust a gas discharged from the power plant, the first tail pipe being provided with a control valve which is controllable to reduce an exhaust amount of the gas exhausted from the first tail pipe when the power plant is in a low-load operation, the second tail pipe being not provided with a control valve,
wherein the exhaust port of the first tail pipe provided with the control valve is visibly assimilated to environs thereof such that the exhaust port of the first tail pipe can hardly be recognized or cannot be recognized by a person in a view of a rear-to-front direction of the vehicle.

4. The exhaust system according to claim 3 , wherein the first tail pipe has an outer surface including a region of the exhaust port thereof and a region in a vicinity of the exhaust port, the outer surface being colored in black such that the exhaust port of the first tail pipe is visibly indistinguishable from shade of a lower part of a vehicle body.

5. The exhaust system according to claim 3 , wherein the first tail pipe has an outer surface including a region of the exhaust port thereof and a region in a vicinity of the exhaust port, the outer surface being colored in the same color as a rear bumper such that the exhaust port of the first tail pipe is visibly indistinguishable from the rear bumper.

Assignees

• Honda Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kiryu Daisuke

Classifications

• F01N13/082 Primary

  of tailpipe, e.g. with means for mixing air with exhaust for exhaust cooling, dilution or evacuation (F01N13/20 takes precedence) · CPC title

• F01N2470/14

  Plurality of outlet tubes, e.g. in parallel or with different length · CPC title

• B60K13/04

  concerning exhaust · CPC title

• F01N2340/04

  Arrangement of the exhaust system relative to a vehicle or parts thereof · CPC title

• F01N2240/36

  an exhaust flap · CPC title