US 11,951,427 B2
Hollow cylindrical filter and manufacturing apparatus
Takashi Matsumoto, Tokyo (JP); Yutaka Yoshida, Tokyo (JP); and Kiyohisa Kikuchi, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to FUJI FILTER MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by FUJI FILTER MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Nov. 23, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/456,226.
Application 17/456,226 is a continuation of application No. 15/523,192, abandoned, previously published as PCT/JP2015/080589, filed on Oct. 29, 2015.
Claims priority of application No. 2014-221522 (JP), filed on Oct. 30, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2022/0111320 A1, Apr. 14, 2022
Int. Cl. B01D 39/00 (2006.01); B01D 39/12 (2006.01); B01D 46/00 (2022.01); B01D 46/24 (2006.01); B21B 1/16 (2006.01); B21C 37/04 (2006.01); B21F 27/18 (2006.01)
CPC B01D 39/12 (2013.01) [B01D 46/0001 (2013.01); B01D 46/24 (2013.01); B21B 1/16 (2013.01); B21B 1/166 (2013.01); B21C 37/04 (2013.01); B21F 27/18 (2013.01); B01D 2279/10 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A hollow cylindrical filter formed by winding a metal wire rod in a spiral and multilayered manner, and is configured to filter a fluid by passing it in a diameter direction to an inner diameter side or an outer diameter side, wherein:
the metal wire rod has at least one projection portion formed of a first plate member and a second plate member and at least one recess portion formed of the first plate member and the second plate member at an opposite side of the projection portion, in such a manner that the metal wire rod has a cross-section having a form of a V-shape, a N-shape, a Z-shape or a W-shape, in a longitudinal direction throughout an entire length of the metal wire rod, the cross-section being obtained by cutting off the metal wire rod at a right angle to a longitudinal axis of the metal wire rod,
the metal wire rod is wound so that one side thereof faces the inner diameter side or the outer diameter side in the diameter direction, while another side faces the outer diameter side or the inner diameter side in the diameter direction, and extends in a direction inclined with respect to an axial direction of the hollow cylindrical filter,
the metal wire rod of the adjacent wire rod layers extends in a direction intersecting with each other with a fixed inclined angle with respect to the axial direction, to form a plurality of communication paths communicating in a direction into which the wire rod layers overlap with each other, and
an intersection portion space that allows the plurality of communication paths to communicate with each other is formed by overlapping the recess portion formed in the metal wire rod of one of the wire rod layers, with the metal wire rod of a wire rod layer adjacent to the one wire rod layer at an intersection portion of the metal wire rod of the one wire rod layer and the metal wire rod of the other wire rod layer adjacent to the one wire rod layer.