Microwave detection of soot content in a particulate trap
CA 1188129 A · Owner: General Motors Corporation · Inventors: Eddy, David S.; O'Rourke, Michael J.; Nagy, Louis L.
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Abstract of the Disclosure, Conductive particulate in the form of soot are collected from diesel engine exhaust gases on a porous wall monolithic ceramic filter in such a way that the soot is somewhat uniformly distributed throughout the filter. The filter is housed in a chamber having a property of a microwave resonant cavity and the cavity is excited with microwave energy. As the particulates are collected the cavity appears to the microwaves to have an increasing dielectric constant even though the matter being accumulated is conductive rather than dielectric so that as collected on the porous filter it has the property of an artificial dielectric. The response of the cavity to the …
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- Granted June 4, 1985. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended June 4, 2002.
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