Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fuel treatment device
- Patent Title (中): 燃油处理装置
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Application No.: US12666891Application Date: 2009-06-01
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Publication No.: US07883675B2Publication Date: 2011-02-08
- Inventor: Masatoshi Nakamura , Takashi Nakagawa , Yuji Tsutsui , Masatoshi Teranishi
- Applicant: Masatoshi Nakamura , Takashi Nakagawa , Yuji Tsutsui , Masatoshi Teranishi
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
- Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C.
- Priority: JP2008-155417 20080613
- International Application: PCT/JP2009/002440 WO 20090601
- International Announcement: WO2009/150792 WO 20091217
- Main IPC: B01J8/08
- IPC: B01J8/08 ; B01J8/02

Abstract:
The present invention provides a fuel treatment device which can realize easy separation and collection of a catalyst contained in the device. In a fuel treatment device (21) of the present invention a fuel gas is supplied to a catalyst, which fills a catalyst filling space (24) surrounded by a cylindrical inner circumferential wall and a cylindrical outer circumferential wall, to produce a reformed gas. The fuel treatment device (21) has a removal section indicator indicating a catalyst removal section (29) on the outer circumferential surface of the outer circumferential wall of the cylindrical catalyst filling space (24) and an opening formation assister assisting the formation of a catalyst removal opening for removing the catalyst. The removal section indicator and the opening formation assister are, for example, an oval annular shallow groove (30) formed at the outer circumferential wall of the catalyst filling space (24) over substantially the entire length in the axial direction of the catalyst filling space (24). When a catalyst (25) is collected from the fuel treatment device (21) after a lapse of a period of use, the catalyst removal opening (29) surrounded by the annular shallow groove (30) is cut off, and a catalyst removal opening (40) is formed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100202938A1 FUEL TREATMENT DEVICE Public/Granted day:2010-08-12
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