US 12,263,434 B2
Separating apparatus for separating liquid from gas, in particular air, and separating system of a machine
Bertram Bartelt, Steinheim (DE); Peter Biebricher, Mannheim (DE); and Klemens Dworatzek, Edingen (DE)
Assigned to MANN+HUMMEL GmbH, Ludwigsburg (DE)
Filed by MANN+HUMMEL GmbH, Ludwigsburg (DE)
Filed on Apr. 18, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/723,110.
Application 17/723,110 is a continuation of application No. PCT/EP2020/079568, filed on Oct. 21, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2019 128 397.3 (DE), filed on Oct. 21, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0233988 A1, Jul. 28, 2022
Int. Cl. B01D 53/22 (2006.01); B01D 46/00 (2022.01); B01D 46/24 (2006.01)
CPC B01D 46/0031 (2013.01) [B01D 46/2403 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A separating apparatus for separating liquid from gas, the separating apparatus comprising:
a housing comprising a housing cover comprising a central opening configured to connect separably the separating apparatus by a rotation and/or insertion movement in relation to a virtual connection axis to a connection head of a machine;
the housing further comprising at least one gas inlet for a gas to be freed from a liquid;
the housing further comprising at least one gas outlet for the gas freed from the liquid, wherein the central opening of the housing cover serves as the at least one gas outlet and the at least one gas outlet surrounds circumferentially the virtual connection axis:
the housing further comprising at least one liquid drain for the liquid that has been separated;
at least one separating medium that can be flowed through by the gas arranged inside the housing so as to separate the at least one gas inlet from the at least one gas outlet in relation to a flow of the gas through the housing;
a liquid collection chamber arranged inside the housing at a clean gas side of the at least one separating medium so as to surround circumferentially the virtual connection axis and the at least one gas outlet;
wherein the at least one liquid drain leads out of the liquid collection chamber;
wherein the at least one gas outlet and the at least one liquid drain lead out of the housing at a side of the housing at which the housing cover is arranged;
a pipe section arranged inside the housing so as to surround circumferentially the virtual connection axis and form at least partially a radially inner boundary of the liquid collection chamber, wherein the pipe section leads to the at least one gas outlet, and wherein an inner diameter of the pipe section is larger than an inner diameter of the at least one gas outlet;
wherein the pipe section is functionally separated from mechanical force-transmitting connection elements of the housing cover and the connection head of the machine.