Patent ID: 6892852

Claim:
An exhaust housing part for an exhaust muffler ( 2 ) or an exhaust gas catalyst of an automobile, comprising: a sheet blank ( 1 ) as a semi-finished part that, after a stamping process in a tool ( 3 , 4 , 5 ), comprises an upper half-shell or a lower half-shell of a half-shell muffler or catalyst; or after a wrapping process in a tool, comprises a wrapped exhaust gas funnel or cylinder, or an exhaust gas pipe connection, wherein the sheet blank ( 1 ) comprises an integral, profiled sheet metal part of differing thickness, with at least one strip section ( 10 ) of a thickness (S 2 ) that locally reinforces the finished exhaust housing part, and at least one strip section ( 11 ) of greater thickness at least in one wall region.