Patent 7713494 was granted and assigned to Kawasaki on May, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Disclosed is an exhaust purification device in which an entire length of an outer cylinder of a catalyst can be used effectively for exhaust purification and it is possible to prevent heat in fixing of the catalyst to an exhaust pipe from affecting a connection portion between the outer cylinder and catalyst main bodies. A catalyst includes an outer cylinder and a plurality of catalyst main bodies provided in the outer cylinder in a state of being spaced each other in a direction of an axial center of the outer cylinder. An outer face of the outer cylinder positioned between the catalyst main bodies is a fixed face to be fixed to an inside of the exhaust pipe.