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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To contrive energy saving of an ignition device for an internal combustion engine effecting ignition by plasma jet. SOLUTION: On the ignition device for the internal combustion device, an ignition plug 100 is composed of a main body metal fitting 10 having tubular structure fitted to an outer periphery of an insulator 20, here, a screw part 12 is formed at an outer periphery of one end side of the tubular structure, and an end part 13 of the screw part 12 is arranged so as to be located on a same plane as a tip face 22 of the insulator, or the tip face of the insulator is arranged so as to protrude from the end part of the screw part; and a cover 60 structured as a metal vessel thinner than the screw part 12 of the main metal fitting 10 and forming a cavity space 70 with only an inner wall face of the metal vessel and the tip face 22 of the insulator 20 by an open end part of the metal vessel jointed to the end part 13 at the screw part side of the main body metal fitting 10. With such a structure, heat in the cavity space 70 is prevented from being radiated outside the ignition plug 100 through the main body metal fitting. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently coagulate by simply constituting an exhaust particulate purifying device using corona discharge. SOLUTION: Since a metallic mesh or a filter is arranged in a muffler housing 1 continuously connected to an internal combustion engine via an exhaust pipe 2 and is constituted by arranging a discharge electrode 4 in the exhaust pipe 2 in the vicinity of this side of a muffler inlet, the whole exhaust particulate can be electrified by adding discharge to the whole exhaust gas, and the exhaust particulate is further easily coagulated and collected by reducing a flow speed of the exhaust gas in a muffler, and exhaust emission is efficiently controlled with a simple constitution. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To restrain electric power consumption, and to efficiently and surely purify exhaust gas containing a particulate substance. SOLUTION: A controller 30 estimates a PM exhaust quantity corresponding to an engine speed, a main injection quantity, and intake pressure read in from an engine controller 2, and also determines whether an electric current is carried to an electrifying electrode 11, or the electric current is carried to the electrifying electrode 11 and an electrifying electrode 13, or the electric current is not carried to either. The controller 30 controls a power source device 20 so as to carry the electric current to the electrifying electrode 11 and the electrifying electrode 13. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a plasma device in which a voltage drop in a plasma electrode is reduced and a gas cleaning effect is maintained. SOLUTION: Inside the flow path member 12 of the plasma device 10, electrodes 21, 22, 23, 31, 32, 33, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45 and 46 formed in a net shape are installed parallelly along the flow direction of an exhaust gas. The electrodes 21, 22 and 23 and the electrodes 31, 32 and 33 are anodes and the electrodes 41, 42, 43, 44, 45 and 46 are cathodes. The anodes 21, 22 and 23 constitute an anode group 20 and the anodes 31, 32 and 33 constitute an anode group 30. The electrodes 41, 42, 43, 44, 45 and 46 constitute a cathode group 40. The cathode group 40 is connected to an exhaust pipe and an engine which are metal parts and grounded. To an electrode group constituted of the anode group 20 and the cathode group 40 and the electrode group constituted of the anode group 30 and the cathode group 40, high voltage pulses are impressed at respectively different timings and frequencies. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an exhaust emission control device for an internal combustion engine capable of stabilizing electric discharge and improving efficiency of purifying exhaust gas with low electric power and from low temperature condition. SOLUTION: A plasma generating device 2 and a DPF 32 with catalyst is arranged separately in an upstream side and a downstream side in a exhaust gas passage 6. Particulate pollutant (PM) and gaseous pollutant (NOx and the like) are efficiently purified by combination of purifying actions of the DPF 32 with catalyst and plasma generated from the plasma generating device 2. The plasma generating device 2 is controlled to be turned on in a low temperature condition to compensate deterioration of purifying performance of the DPF 32 with catalyst in the low temperature condition.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform efficient exhaust emission control by the generated amount of electric discharge smaller than in the past. SOLUTION: A plurality of insulating substrates 15 are arranged in parallel in an emission control housing 14, a flow path 16 for exhaust gas is formed between each insulating substrate 15, also a plurality of electric discharge electrodes 17 are respectively embedded in each insulating substrate 15, and the exhaust gas is purified by generating a discharge in each flow path 16. For changing a discharge generated amount, according to the distribution of a flow amount of exhaust gas in the emission control housing 14, an electric discharge electrode 17a positioned in a central part of the emission control housing 14 is formed in the widest lateral width, to obtain the largest discharge area, from here the discharge electrode 17, as it goes toward a peripheral part (lateral direction and vertical direction), is formed in small lateral width, to obtain a small electric discharge area. In this way, the distribution of the generated amount of electric discharge in the emission control housing 14 generates the largest generated amount of electric discharge in the central part of the emission control housing 14 having a large flow rate of exhaust gas, the generated amount of electric discharge, in accordance with going toward the peripheral part of a small flow rate of exhaust gas, is decreased.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an exhaust emission control device capable of suppressing damage due to the exhaust heat from an exhaust pipe and suppressing damage to the exhaust pipe due to vibration. SOLUTION: Bottomed cylindrical wave guides 23 are disposed so as to face each other with the gap C interposed therebetween from the opening side of a base 21 projecting from the exhaust pipe 92. Namely, the inner diameter of the opening ends 231 of the wave guides 23 is larger than the outer diameter of the opening end 212 of the base 21. Then, the opening ends 231 of the wave guides 23 cover, in the state of non-contact with each other, the opening end 212 of the base 21 from the outside with the gap C interposed therebetween. The base 21 comprises a heat shield plate 213 which closes the opening of the base 21 extending toward the wave guides 23. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an exhaust emission control device easily mounted in a limited space and easily handled, and using a solid reducing agent. SOLUTION: The solid reducing agent 14 for the exhaust emission control device 10 is arrange on the side of the engine 11 of a reduction catalyst 13 in a second exhaust gas passage 24 for allowing a part of exhaust gas delivered from the engine 11 to flow therein. Therefore, at least a part of the exhaust gas delivered from the engine 11 is passed through the solid reducing agent 14 arranged in the second exhaust gas passage 24 and is led to flow into the reduction catalyst 13. The exhaust gas delivered from the engine 11 is passed through the solid reducing agent 14, thereby a reducing agent produced from the solid reducing agent 14 is mixed with the exhaust gas and led to flow into the reduction catalyst 13. Most of the exhaust emission control device 10 including the solid reducing agent 14 is arranged in an exhaust pipe section 12 forming an exhaust passage 16. As a result, the exhaust emission control device is easily mounted in the limited space around the engine 11 and easily handled. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an exhaust emission control device for maintaining a catalyst at the active temperature over a long period, by reducing conduction of heat to the internal combustion engine side from the catalyst. SOLUTION: When a gasoline engine 11 stops operation, an exhaust passage 21 is closed by an upstream side orifice part 30 and a downstream side orifice part 40. A storage space 26 for storing a three-way catalyst 24 by the upstream side orifice part 30 and the downstream side orifice part 40, is reduced in pressure by a pressure reducing pat 50. By storing the three-way catalyst 24 in the storage space 26, exhaust gas remaining around the three-way catalyst 24 does not flow out to any of the atmospheric side and the engine body 14 side. The movement of the heat with the exhaust heat as a heating medium is reduced by reducing pressure in the storage space 26. Thus, the temperature of the three-way catalyst 24 hardly drops. As a result, the movement of the heat by the exhaust gas is reduced, and a temperature drop in the three-way catalyst 24 is reduced. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an exhaust emission control device for reducing a specific substance discharged together with exhaust gas, by raising the temperature of a catalyst in a short period of time, when starting an internal combustion engine, without causing a pressure loss and upsizing of a physical constitution. SOLUTION: An orifice part 40 arranged in an exhaust passage 41 controls the cross-sectional area of the exhaust passage 41 and a flow of the exhaust gas in the exhaust passage 41 by adjusting opening of a first valve member 44 and a second valve member 47. When the temperature of a three-way catalyst 32 is low, the orifice part 40 introduces the flow of the exhaust gas to a part on the outer peripheral side of the three-way catalyst 32. Thus, when the temperature of the three-way catalyst 32 is low, the exhaust gas is introduced to a part of the three-way catalyst 32, and the temperature of the three-way catalyst 32 rises in a short period after starting an engine body 13. The orifice part 40 expands the cross-sectional area of the exhaust passage 41 as the temperature of the three-way catalyst 32 rises, and fully opens the exhaust passage 41 when the temperature of the three-way catalyst 32 reaches the active temperature. Thus, the exhaust gas is introduced to the whole of the three-way catalyst 32, and the pressure loss is reduced. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT