Combined electrically heatable and light-off converter
First Claim
1. A combined metallic electrically heatable and "light-off" converter body including a multicellular metallic honeycomb, said honeycomb comprising a plurality of first thin metal layers and a plurality of second thin metal layers each of said first and second thin metal layers having a leading edge and a trailing edge with respect to fluid flowing transversely thereover, said first and second layers being in alternating relation, each of said first metal layers having a leading edge portion including said leading edge and having a width, and a trailing edge portion including said trailing edge and having width, the leading edge portions of said first thin metal layers being longer than the trailing edge portions of said first thin metal layers.
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Abstract
There is provided an electrically heatable converter body including a multicellular metallic honeycomb characterized by a plurality of first thin metal strips and a plurality of second thin metal strips in layered alternating relation, and wherein the first thin metal strips have a leading edge portion and a trailing edge portion, the leading edge portion of the first thin metal strips being longer than the trailing edge of said first thin metal strips.
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31 Claims
- 1. A combined metallic electrically heatable and "light-off" converter body including a multicellular metallic honeycomb, said honeycomb comprising a plurality of first thin metal layers and a plurality of second thin metal layers each of said first and second thin metal layers having a leading edge and a trailing edge with respect to fluid flowing transversely thereover, said first and second layers being in alternating relation, each of said first metal layers having a leading edge portion including said leading edge and having a width, and a trailing edge portion including said trailing edge and having width, the leading edge portions of said first thin metal layers being longer than the trailing edge portions of said first thin metal layers.
- 26. A converter core element comprising a thin metal layer having a leading edge portion for connection to a voltage source including a leading edge, and a trailing edge portion which is not substantially electrically heatable, said leading edge portion * being longer than the trailing edge portion, and said leading edge portion being separated from said trailing edge portion by at least one laterally extending notch and said leading edge portion being connected to the trailing edge portion by at least one bridge spanning said at least one laterally extending notch, wherein said bridge closes at least one inner end of said at least one laterally extending notch.
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31. A converter core element comprising a thin metal layer having an electrically heatable leading edge portion including a leading edge;
- a trailing edge portion which is not substantially electrically heatable, said leading edge portion being longer than the trailing edge portion; and
an electrically heatable intermediate leading edge portion located between said first leading edge portion and said trailing edge portion, said first leading edge portion being separated from said intermediate leading edge portion by a first laterally extending notch, and said intermediate leading edge portion being separated from said trailing edge portion by a second laterally extending notch parallel to said first laterally extending notch, and said at least one bridge spanning said first notch between said leading edge portion and said intermediate leading edge portion, and at least one bridge spanning said second laterally extending notch between said intermediate leading edge portion and said trailing edge portion.
- a trailing edge portion which is not substantially electrically heatable, said leading edge portion being longer than the trailing edge portion; and
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