Silencer

1. A silencer for an exhaust system of a combustion engine, the silencer comprising:

a housing with an inlet and in which an outlet chamber is located;

an outlet pipe arrangement leading out of the housing, the outlet pipe arrangement being fluidically connected to the outlet chamber on an inlet side thereof, the outlet pipe arrangement being a pipe-in-pipe arrangement comprising at least one deflection pipe with a closed end on one side and arranged in the housing and an outlet pipe leading out of the housing, said closed end extending across a longitudinal direction of said outlet pipe, said deflection pipe being imperforate around said outlet pipe with axial walls parallel to said outlet pipe, an outer channel being defined between an outside of said deflection pipe and an inside of said housing, said first inlet of said housing being in communication with said outer channel.

2. The silencer according to claim 1 , wherein the pipe-in-pipe arrangement creates a flow path from the outlet chamber to the outlet pipe, the flow path comprising at least two 180° deflections.

3. The silencer according to claim 1 , wherein the pipe-in-pipe arrangement comprises an inner channel formed between the deflection pipe and the outlet pipe.

4. The silencer according to claim 3 , wherein a through-flow capable cross section of the outer channel is smaller than or equal in size to a through-flow capable cross section of the inner channel.

5. The silencer according to claim 3 , wherein a through-flow capable cross section of the inner channel is smaller than or identical in size to a through-flow capable cross section of the outlet pipe.

6. The silencer according to claim 3 , wherein a through-flow capable cross sections of the outlet channel, a through-flow capable cross section of the inner channel and of a through-flow capable cross section of the outer channel are matched to one another with respect to a reduced through-flow resistance.

7. The silencer according to claim 1 , wherein the housing or an outer pipe enveloping the deflection pipe, the deflection pipe and the outlet pipe are arranged within one another axis-parallel to one another.

8. The silencer according to claim 5 , wherein the housing or an outer pipe enveloping the deflection pipe, the deflection pipe and the outlet pipe are arranged concentrically to one another.

9. The silencer according to claim 5 , wherein at least two of the group comprising the housing or an outer pipe enveloping the deflection pipe, the deflection pipe and the outlet pipe are arranged eccentrically to one another.

10. The silencer according to claim 1 , wherein the closed side of the deflection pipe comprises a bottom that is concavely curved towards the outlet pipe.

11. The silencer according to claim 1 , wherein the housing or an outer pipe enveloping the deflection pipe on its side facing the open side of the deflection pipe comprises a bottom that is concavely curved towards the deflection pipe.

12. The silencer according to claim 1 , wherein an open side of the deflection comprises a flow deflection contour.

13. The silencer according to claim 12 , wherein the flow deflection contour is configured as one of a deflection collar deflecting flow to the outside and as a rounded-off end region.

14. The silencer according to claim 1 , wherein the outlet pipe on has an inlet side comprising a perforation.

15. The silencer according to claim 1 , wherein the outlet pipe has an inlet side axially fastened to the closed end of the deflection pipe, and wherein the outlet pipe is radially perforated in the area of said inlet side.

16. A silencer for an exhaust system of a combustion engine of a motor vehicle, the silencer comprising:

a housing defining an outlet chamber and an inlet opening;

an outlet pipe arrangement leading out of the housing, the outlet pipe having an inlet side fluidically connected to the outlet chamber, the outlet pipe arrangement comprising a deflection pipe disposed within the housing, the deflection pipe having a closed end and an open end with an deflection pipe axial extent between the closed end and an open end and an outlet pipe extending out of the housing, the outlet pipe having an outlet pipe axial extent with a portion of the outlet pipe axial extent positioned within a region of the deflection pipe axial extent between the closed end and the open end to define a pipe-in-pipe arrangement, the pipe-in-pipe arrangement defining an exhaust flow path from the inlet opening of the housing to the outlet pipe, the flow path comprising at least two 180° deflections of flow path direction, said deflection pipe being imperforate around said outlet pipe with axial walls parallel to said outlet pipe, an outer passage being defined between an outside of said deflection pipe and an inside of said housing, said inlet opening of said housing being in communication with said outer passage.

17. A silencer for an exhaust system of a combustion engine, the silencer comprising:

a housing having a first end and a second end, said housing defining a first opening at said first end, and a second opening at said second end;

an inside pipe extending from said second opening of said housing into an inside of said housing, said inside pipe defining an interior passage with an interior radial dimension, said interior passage being in communication with said second opening of said housing;

a deflection pipe arranged inside said housing, said deflection pipe having a closed end closer to said first end of said housing than to said second end, said deflection pipe having an open end closer to said second end of said housing than said first end, said inside pipe extending from said second end of said housing into said open end of said deflection pipe, said closed end of said deflection pipe extending across said interior radial dimension of said inside pipe, said deflection pipe being imperforate around said inside pipe with axial walls parallel to said inside pipe, an outer passage being defined between an outside of said deflection pipe and an inside of said housing, said first opening of said housing being in communication with said outer passage.

18. The silencer according to claim 17 , wherein:

an outside of said inside pipe and an inside of said deflection pipe define a deflection passage, said deflection passage being in communication with said outer passage at said second end of said housing, said interior passage being in communication with said deflection passage at said closed end of said deflection pipe.

19. The silencer according to claim 17 , wherein:

said first opening of said housing is in direct communication with said outer passage;

an outside of said inside pipe and an inside of said deflection pipe define a deflection passage, said deflection passage being in direct communication with said outer passage at said second end of said housing, said interior passage being in direct communication with said deflection passage at said closed end of said deflection pipe.

20. The silencer according to claim 17 , wherein:

a flow path extends serially from said first opening of said housing to said outer passage, to said deflection passage, to said interior passage, and to said second opening of said housing.