Abstract: A forced induction apparatus for an engine includes a first forced induction device including a first bearing and a first oil passage that passes by the first bearing and a second forced induction device including a second bearing, a second oil passage that passes by the second bearing, and a drain passage that is in communication with the first oil passage. The second forced induction device is located below the first forced induction device, and the drain passage receives oil from the first oil passage and discharges the oil out of the second forced induction device.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes: a cylinder block including multiple cylinders; a cylinder head; and a turbocharger including an inlet port connected to an exhaust outlet of the cylinder head. The inlet port includes a first wall portion located between one cylinder out of the two outermost cylinders and the central axis of the inlet port in the cylinder array direction, and a second wall portion located on the opposite side of the central axis of the inlet port from the first wall portion. The first wall portion includes a thick-walled portion that is greater in thickness than the second wall portion, and a thin-walled portion that is smaller in thickness than the thick-walled portion and is located upstream of the thick-walled portion in the direction of exhaust gas flow.

Abstract: A compressor housing includes an intake port, a scroll, and a shroud. The shroud includes a shroud surface facing the impeller, a sliding member in an annular shape, and a sliding-member fixing portion in an annular shape. An inner circumferential surface of the sliding member defines the shroud surface. The sliding-member fixing portion includes contact portions that are configured to such that an inner circumferential surface of the sliding-member fixing portion and an outer circumferential surface of the sliding member at least partially come into contact with each other. The sliding member is fastened to the sliding-member fixing portion at the contact portions by the fastening members. The sliding member is fastened by the fastening members configured to extend through the sliding-member fixing portion. The fastening members are fastened from an outer circumferential surface of the sliding-member fixing portion to the sliding member.

Abstract: A compressor housing for a turbocharger including an intake port, a scroll chamber, and a shroud part. The shroud part includes an annular abradable seal, and an annular abradable seal fixing part. The abradable seal fixing part includes a press-fitting recessed portion into which the abradable seal is press-fitted, and a grooved portion formed at a forward side of the press-fitting recessed portion with respect to a press-fitting direction of the abradable seal. The abradable seal includes a press-fit abutting portion press-fitted into the press-fitting recessed portion, abutting against an inner circumferential surface of the press-fitting recessed portion, and a bulging portion at a forward side of the press-fit abutting portion with respect to the press-fitting direction. The outside diameter of the bulging portion is larger than the inside diameter of the press-fitting recessed portion but smaller than the inside diameter of the grooved portion.

Abstract: A turbocharger includes a cooling passage. The cooling passage extends along a diffuser surface. Fluid for cooling the diffuser surface flows through the cooling passage. The turbocharger includes a water jacket, which is arranged at a connection portion between a blow-by gas recirculation passage and an intake passage. Coolant for warming blow-by gas flows through the water jacket. The cooling passage communicates with the water jacket. Coolant that has been drawn into the cooling passage flows through the water jacket after flowing through the cooling passage.

Abstract: A turbocharger includes a compressor housing including a scroll chamber, and a seal plate assembled to the compressor housing. The compressor housing and the seal plate define an intake passage. The seal plate includes a plate-side connecting portion in contact with the compressor housing. The radius of curvature of a wall surface of the scroll chamber of the compressor housing, in a section including a compressor rotational axis, is increased in a direction toward an outlet located on the downstream side of the scroll chamber in an intake air flow direction. The plate-side connecting portion protrudes in a direction along the compressor rotational axis. The radius of curvature of an inner surface of the seal plate continuous with the scroll chamber of the intake passage, in the section including the compressor rotational axis, is increased in the direction toward the outlet of the scroll chamber.

Abstract: A compressor housing for a turbocharger including a housing body having an inner circumferential recess recessively formed on an annular inner circumference surface thereof; an annular abradable seal disposed in the inner circumferential recess, an inner circumference surface of which forms a shroud surface; and a ring member formed in a ring shape along the inner circumferential recess and press-fitted into the inner circumferential recess. The inner circumferential recess includes a recess press-contact surface that is formed along a press-fitting direction of the ring member, and press-contacts a radial-direction outside surface of the ring member; and a recess opposing surface that opposes a press-fitting direction forward surface of the ring member. The abradable seal includes a flange that projects outwardly in a radial direction of the abradable seal. The flange is held between the press-fitting direction forward surface and the recess opposing surface to fix the abradable seal.

Abstract: A second recirculation passage recirculates blow-by gas at an upstream section, which is upstream of an impeller of a turbocharger in an intake passage. A first passage branches and extends from a downstream section, which is downstream of the impeller in the intake passage. A second passage that forms part of the second recirculation passage connects the first passage and the upstream section to each other. A third passage, which is provided separately from the second passage, connects the first passage and the upstream section to each other. A change mechanism changes, in different manners, the flow rate of compressed gas recirculating to the upstream section through the second passage, and the flow rate of compressed gas recirculating to the upstream section through the third passage.

Abstract: [Problem] Provided is a compound having a positive allosteric modulating activity (PAM activity) on an ?7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (?7 nACh receptor). [Means for Solution] The present inventors have studied on a PAM activity on an ?7 nACh receptor, and they have found that a tetrahydrooxepinopyridine compound has a PAM activity on an ?7 nACh receptor, thereby completing the present invention. The tetrahydrooxepinopyridine compound of the present invention has a PAM activity on an ?7 nACh receptor and can be expected as an agent for preventing or treating dementia, cognitive impairment, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease, CIAS, negative symptoms of schizophrenia, inflammatory diseases, or pain.

Abstract: There is provided an actuator that can prevent a decrease in strength of a plate due to hydrolysis. The actuator is provided with a diaphragm which divides an inside of a casing into a negative pressure chamber and an atmospheric pressure chamber, a resin plate which is provided inside the negative pressure chamber to contact with the diaphragm, and an operating shaft having one side connected to the plate and the diaphragm and the other side extended outside the casing through the atmospheric pressure chamber, the operating shaft capable of being displaced in the axial direction according to the deformation of the diaphragm. The operating shaft penetrates through the diaphragm to connect to the plate inside the negative pressure chamber so that the plate is blocked from the atmospheric pressure chamber.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes: a cylinder block including multiple cylinders; a cylinder head; and a turbocharger including an inlet port connected to an exhaust outlet of the cylinder head. The inlet port includes a first wall portion located between one cylinder out of the two outermost cylinders and the central axis of the inlet port in the cylinder array direction, and a second wall portion located on the opposite side of the central axis of the inlet port from the first wall portion. The first wall portion includes a thick-walled portion that is greater in thickness than the second wall portion, and a thin-walled portion that is smaller in thickness than the thick-walled portion and is located upstream of the thick-walled portion in the direction of exhaust gas flow.

Abstract: A compressor housing for a turbocharger and a method for manufacturing the same. The method includes steps of preparing a scroll piece having an intake port forming portion forming an intake port, an intake-side wall surface of a scroll chamber, and a scroll outer peripheral portion covering an outer peripheral side of the scroll chamber; preparing a shroud piece having a cylindrical shroud press-fit portion to be press fitted into the intake port forming portion, an inner circumferential wall surface of the scroll chamber, and a recessed portion formed on a wall surface covering an outer peripheral side of an impeller; forming an abradable seal having a shroud surface by injection molding of resin into the recessed portion; and press fitting the shroud press-fit portion into the intake port forming portion.

Abstract: A forced induction apparatus for an engine includes a first forced induction device including a first bearing and a first oil passage that passes by the first bearing and a second forced induction device including a second bearing, a second oil passage that passes by the second bearing, and a drain passage that is in communication with the first oil passage. The second forced induction device is located below the first forced induction device, and the drain passage receives oil from the first oil passage and discharges the oil out of the second forced induction device.

Abstract: [Problem] Provided is a compound having a positive allosteric modulating activity (PAM activity) on an ?7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (?7 nACh receptor). [Means for Solution] The present inventors have studied on a PAM activity on an ?7 nACh receptor, and they have found that a tetrahydrooxepinopyridine compound has a PAM activity on an ?7 nACh receptor, thereby completing the present invention. The tetrahydrooxepinopyridine compound of the present invention has a PAM activity on an ?7 nACh receptor and can be expected as an agent for preventing or treating dementia, cognitive impairment, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease, CIAS, negative symptoms of schizophrenia, inflammatory diseases, or pain.

Abstract: A bearing structure of a turbo charger is provided. The turbo charger includes a semi-float bearing, a rotary shaft. The semi-float bearing is cylindrical and mounted in the bearing housing. The rotary shaft passes through the semi-float bearing and is supported rotatably by the semi-float bearing. The bearing structure includes a slinger wall and a projecting portion. The slinger wall is provided on the rotary shaft so that it is opposed to an end face in the axial direction of the semi-float bearing. The projecting portion projects from at least one of the slinger wall or the end face to the other. The projecting portion is provided in an annular shape along the circumferential direction of the semi-float bearing. The projecting portion includes a cutout portion that links the inner circumferential face side of the semi-float bearing with the outer circumferential face side thereof.

Abstract: A compressor housing of a supercharger includes: a housing body housing an impeller therein, and having an inner circumferential recess in a recessed shape on an annular inner circumferential surface along an outer circumference of the impeller; and a sliding member in an annular shape disposed in the inner circumferential recess, an inner circumferential surface of the sliding member having a shroud surface that faces the impeller. The housing body includes a diffuser surface that is disposed circumferentially outward of the shroud surface in a manner as to be continued to the shroud surface. Joint portions in which the housing body and the sliding member are joined through a friction stir welding are provided at a boundary between an outer circumferential end of the sliding member and an inner circumferential end of the diffuser surface of the housing body.

Abstract: A turbocharger includes a cooling passage. The cooling passage is arranged along a diffuser surface, which faces a diffuser passage in a compressor housing member. The compressor housing member is constituted by combining a first piece, a second piece, and a third piece, which are produced by die casting or the like. The cooling passage is defined by assembling the first piece and the second piece to each other.

Abstract: A turbocharger includes a cooling passage. The cooling passage extends along a diffuser surface. Fluid for cooling the diffuser surface flows through the cooling passage. The turbocharger includes a water jacket, which is arranged at a connection portion between a blow-by gas recirculation passage and an intake passage. Coolant for warming blow-by gas flows through the water jacket. The cooling passage communicates with the water jacket. Coolant that has been drawn into the cooling passage flows through the water jacket after flowing through the cooling passage.

Abstract: A compressor housing includes an intake port, a scroll, and a shroud. The shroud includes a shroud surface facing the impeller, a sliding member in an annular shape, and a sliding-member fixing portion in an annular shape. An inner circumferential surface of the sliding member defines the shroud surface. The sliding-member fixing portion includes contact portions that are configured to such that an inner circumferential surface of the sliding-member fixing portion and an outer circumferential surface of the sliding member at least partially come into contact with each other. The sliding member is fastened to the sliding-member fixing portion at the contact portions by the fastening members. The sliding member is fastened by the fastening members configured to extend through the sliding-member fixing portion. The fastening members are fastened from an outer circumferential surface of the sliding-member fixing portion to the sliding member.

Abstract: A turbocharger includes a compressor housing including a scroll chamber, and a seal plate assembled to the compressor housing. The compressor housing and the seal plate define an intake passage. The seal plate includes a plate-side connecting portion in contact with the compressor housing. The radius of curvature of a wall surface of the scroll chamber of the compressor housing, in a section including a compressor rotational axis, is increased in a direction toward an outlet located on the downstream side of the scroll chamber in an intake air flow direction. The plate-side connecting portion protrudes in a direction along the compressor rotational axis. The radius of curvature of an inner surface of the seal plate continuous with the scroll chamber of the intake passage, in the section including the compressor rotational axis, is increased in the direction toward the outlet of the scroll chamber.