SCREEN PANEL FOR COVERING AT LEAST PARTLY AN AIR INTAKE OPENING OF AN AIR INLET HOUSE OF A COMBUSTION ENGINE OR A COMPRESSOR

• US 20150027095A1
• Filed: 03/12/2013
• Published: 01/29/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Global Power Netherlands B.V (Williams Industrial Services Group, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Global Power Netherlands B.V (Williams Industrial Services Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: Willems, Frank, Marschall, Werner Karl Hans
• Application Number:
  US14/384,924
• Publication Number:
  US 20150027095A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 55/511
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 46/10 Particle separators, e.g. dust precipitators, using filter plates, sheets or pads having plane surfaces
• CPC Class Codes: F02C 7/055 with intake grids, screens or guards
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 35/0201 Housings; Casings; Frame constructions; Lids; Manufacturing or assembling thereof
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 35/0216 arranged in series, e.g. pre- and main filter in series
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 35/02458 consisting of multiple layers, e.g. coarse and fine filters; Coatings; Impregnations; Wet or moistened filter elements
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 35/02466 Meshes; Grids; Perforated plates
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 35/02491 Flat filter elements, e.g. rectangular
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 35/10013 Means upstream of the air filter; Connection to the ambient air
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 35/10262 Flow guides, obstructions, deflectors or the like for generating a charge motion in the cylinder F02B31/00; for re-atomising condensed fuel or homogenising fuel-air mixture F02M29/00
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 39/16 Filtration; Moisture separation
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/12 Improving ICE efficiencies

Abstract

The invention relates to a screen panel (7) for covering an air intake opening (5) of an air inlet house (1) of a combustion engine, which air inlet house (1) has at least one filter for filtering the air to be supplied to the combustion engine, wherein the screen panel (7) comprises at least a frame (13) to be connected to the air inlet house (1) of the combustion engine, and at least a metal grid (11) to be connected with the frame (13) for at least partly covering the air intake opening (5) of the air inlet house (1).

Claims

1. A screen panel for at least partly covering an air intake opening of an air inlet house of a combustion engine or a compressor, which air inlet house has at least one filter for filtering the air to be supplied to the combustion engine or the compressor, wherein the screen panel comprises:

at least a frame to be connected to the air inlet house,

at least a metal grid to be connected with the frame for at least partly covering the air intake opening of the air inlet house, characterized in that, at least a part of a circumferential edge of the metal grid is embedded in an elastic layer, wherein the elastic layer can be clamped into the frame for connecting the metal grid with the frame.

2. A screen panel according to claim 1, wherein the entire circumferential edge of the metal grid is embedded with the elastic layer.

3. A screen panel according to claim 1, wherein the width of the elastic layer is provided by the distance between two opposing and substantially parallel extending edges of the elastic layer, wherein the width of the elastic layer is maximally 1/10 of the shortest distance between the center of the grid and the circumferential edge of the grid.

4. A screen panel according to claim 1, wherein the screen panel has a rectangular shape, wherein at least two opposing circumferential edges of the metal grid are at least partly embedded in elastic layers.

5. A screen panel according to claim 1, wherein the frame comprises a U-profile, wherein the elastic layer can be clamped between two opposing flexible legs of the U-profile.

6. A screen panel according to claim 1, wherein the at least one circumferential edge is partly embedded by several spaced apart elastic layer parts.

7. A screen panel according to claim 1, wherein the at least one circumferential edge is at least partly embedded in one strip-like elastic layer.

8. A screen panel according to claim 1, wherein the elastic layer is plastic.

9. A screen panel according to claim 1, wherein the minimum distance between two opposing circumferential edges of the grid is 40 centimeters.

10. A screen panel according to claim 1, wherein the screen panel is a bird screen panel, wherein the metal grid of the bird screen panel has a minimum mesh width of 20 millimeters.

11. A screen panel according to claim 1, wherein the screen panel is an insect screen panel, wherein the metal grid of the insect screen panel has a maximum mesh width of 5 millimeters.

12. An air inlet house of a combustion engine having at least one air intake opening comprising a screen panel according to claim 1.

13. A screen panel according to claim 1, wherein the frame comprises a H-profile, wherein the elastic layer can be clamped between two opposing flexible legs of the H-profile.

14. A screen panel according to claim 8, wherein the plastic is polyvinyl chloride (PVC).

15. A screen panel according to claim 8, wherein the plastic is polyurethane (PU).

16. An air inlet house of a compressor having at least one air intake opening comprising a screen panel according to claim 1.