US 12,186,697 B2
Air cleaner with high performance seal and media
Michael J. Von Seggern, Kearney, NE (US); Brian T. Ehrenberg, Kansas City, MO (US); James R. Manley, Myrtle, MS (US); Randel D. Harbur, Piperton, TN (US); Trenton Yendra, Gibbon, NE (US); Daniel L. Copley, Westpoint, TN (US); John Nichols, Oxford, MS (US); and Jason L. Tate, Thompsons Station, TN (US)
Assigned to Parker-Hannifin Corporation, Cleveland, OH (US)
Filed by Michael J. Von Seggern, Kearney, NE (US); Brian T. Ehrenberg, Kansas City, MO (US); James R. Manley, Myrtle, MS (US); Randel D. Harbur, Piperton, TN (US); Trenton Yendra, Gibbon, NE (US); Daniel L. Copley, Westpoint, TN (US); John Nichols, Oxford, MS (US); and Jason L. Tate, Thompsons Station, TN (US)
Filed on Aug. 25, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/411,982.
Application 17/411,982 is a continuation in part of application No. 16/014,611, filed on Jun. 21, 2018, granted, now 11,136,947.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/630,587, filed on Feb. 14, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/525,631, filed on Jun. 27, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0379522 A1, Dec. 9, 2021
Int. Cl. B01D 46/24 (2006.01); B01D 46/00 (2022.01)
CPC B01D 46/2411 (2013.01) [B01D 46/0005 (2013.01); B01D 2265/021 (2013.01); B01D 2271/027 (2013.01); B01D 2279/60 (2013.01)] 25 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A filter cartridge comprising:
filter media;
a contoured end member including a contoured alignment portion and a contoured seal portion;
wherein the contoured seal portion of the contoured end member has a plurality of axially extending projections that form a wave profile and define a radially facing seal surface and the contoured alignment portion of the contoured end member includes at least one alignment projection extending axially that is radially offset from the radially facing seal surface provided by the wave profile;
the contoured seal portion includes a plurality of axially extending projections, the axially extending projections of the contoured seal portion having tips that are spaced axially away from the filter media a first axial distance;
the at least one alignment projection has a tip that is spaced axially away from the filter media a second axial distance different than the first axial distance.