Exhaust gas mixer and constant volume sampling apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9724662-B2
Application number	US-201414228462-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 28, 2014
Priority date	Mar 29, 2013
Publication date	Aug 8, 2017
Grant date	Aug 8, 2017

Abstract

The present invention is intended to reduce noise or vibration occurring in an exhaust gas mixer, and provided with: a mixer main body that has a hollow part extending in an axial direction; an inner pipe part that is provided in the hollow part along the axial direction; a gas introduction part that is provided to the mixer main body, and introduces mixing target gas into a space to spiral the mixing target gas; and a gas lead-out part that is provided in the inner pipe part to lead out the mixing target gas, wherein a central axis of the inner pipe part and a central axis of the hollow part are provided in mutually different positions.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An exhaust gas mixer that mixes target gas containing exhaust gas and diluent gas to form diluted exhaust gas, the exhaust gas mixer comprising:
a mixer main body having an inner circumferential surface defining a hollow part extending in an axial direction, and configured to mix target gas containing exhaust gas and diluent gas;
an inner pipe part disposed in the hollow part along the axial direction, and passing through and projecting away from a closed end of the mixer main body, wherein a central axis of the inner pipe part and a central axis of the hollow part are disposed in different positions;
a gas introduction part configured to introduce the target gas into a space between the mixer main body and the inner pipe part;
a guide plate disposed within the hollow part at an inner end part of a connecting part between the mixer main body and the gas introduction part, tilted toward an outer end part of the connecting part, and configured to guide the target gas exiting the gas introduction part toward the outer end part at the inner circumferential surface to promote spiraling of the target gas in the space; and
a gas lead-out part disposed in the inner pipe part to lead out the diluted exhaust gas that has been mixed by the spiraling.

2. The exhaust gas mixer according to claim 1 , wherein:
the gas introduction part passes through a lateral circumferential wail of the mixer main body; and
the central axis of the inner pipe part is displaced toward a side opposite to the outer end part rather than the inner end part.

3. The exhaust gas mixer according to claim 1 , wherein
the gas introduction part is disposed along a tangent of an inner circumferential surface of the mixer main body to introduce the mixing target gas into the space along the inner circumferential surface.

4. The exhaust gas mixer according to claim 1 , wherein
as viewed forward from the gas introduction part, the guide plate is arranged so as to hide the inner pipe part.

5. A constant volume sampling apparatus comprising
a constant volume sampling part that samples mixed gas that is controlled to have a constant flow rate, wherein
the constant volume sampling part comprises:
a main flow path through which exhaust gas flows;
a diluent gas flow path through which diluent gas flows, the diluent gas flow path being connected to the main flow path;
an exhaust gas mixer that is provided in the main flow path to mix the exhaust gas and the diluent gas;
a constant flow rate control device that is provided downstream of the exhaust gas mixer in the main flow path to control mixed gas that is a mixture produced by the exhaust gas mixer, the mixed gas being controlled to have a constant flow rate; and
a sampling flow path that is connected between the exhaust gas mixer and the constant flow rate control device in the main flow path to sample the mixed gas that is controlled to have the constant flow rate, wherein
the exhaust gas mixer comprises the exhaust gas mixer according to claim 1 .

6. The exhaust gas mixer according to claim 1 , wherein
the inner pipe part includes straightening vanes along a flow path direction configured to cancel a spiral flow of the diluted exhaust gas flowing through the inner pipe part.

Assignees

• Horiba Ltd

Inventors

• Ohtsuki Satoshi
• Kumagai Tatsuki
• Yoshimura Sayaka
• Tsuji Yoshiko

Classifications

• G01N1/2252 Primary

  in a vehicle exhaust · CPC title

• G01N2001/2255

  with dilution of the sample · CPC title

• B01F15/00123

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• G01N15/06

  Investigating concentration of particle suspensions (by weighing G01N5/00; investigating sedimentation of particle suspensions G01N15/04; investigating individual particles G01N15/10) · CPC title

• B01F15/0227 Primary

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic