AIR CLEANER FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE Russian patent published in 2000 - IPC

FIELD: mechanical engineering ; internal combustion engines. SUBSTANCE: air cleaner has cylindrical housing with covers, inlet and outlet branch pipes, ring filtering member, positive, negative and additional corona- forming electrodes, inlet pipe connected with inlet branch pipe, dust collector and additional precleaner. The latter is made in form of countercurrent flow electrocyclone containing housing and perforated guard perforated settling and corona-forming electrodes, upper and lower covers made of dielectric material and interconnected by through bolt. Dust collector with dust ejection device is located on outer surface of lower cover and is connected by hole with inner space of electrocyclone. Outlet branch pipe is connected with inlet branch pipe of air cleaner. Negative electrode is arranged around filtering member and is made in form of perforated "grater". Air ozonizer consisting of two electrodes made in form of perforated cylinders is arranged in inner space of filtering member. EFFECT: enhanced efficiency of air cleaning and processing. 8 cl, 7 dwg