Inlet Scroll Patents (Class 415/205)
  • Patent number: 11808173
    Abstract: A scroll passage of a turbine housing includes: an outer peripheral surface extending along an axial direction of the turbine housing; an inner peripheral surface disposed inward of the outer peripheral surface; a one-side surface extending along the radial direction; an other-side surface disposed closer to an outlet of the housing; a one-side outer peripheral R portion connecting the one-side surface and the outer peripheral surface; an other-side outer peripheral R portion connecting the other-side surface and the outer peripheral surface; and an other-side inner peripheral R portion connecting the other-side surface and the inner peripheral surface. A ratio of a width dimension of the scroll passage to an R dimension of each portion is defined as a peripheral R ratio, and the peripheral R ratio has an R ratio increasing region the ratio increases from upstream to downstream in the scroll passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Hoshi, Hiroshi Nakagawa, Shunsuke Miyoshi, Kenji Nitta, Sosuke Irie
  • Patent number: 11624283
    Abstract: High cycle fatigue (HCF) in a turbine wheel of a sector-divided dual volute turbocharger, particularly a turbocharger where the tongue-to-blade gap is as small as from 1-3% of the wheel diameter, is reduced, and energy extraction is optimized, using a turbine wheel with (blade stiffness/backwall stiffness×100) between 41 and 44.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Carson Colley, Craig Andrew Colont, Dominic William DePaoli, Sean Hastings
  • Patent number: 11313279
    Abstract: An entire scroll is effectively cooled. A scroll of an embodiment leads combustion gas to a turbine stage as a working medium for driving a turbine rotor in a gas turbine facility, and includes a scroll inner cylinder and a scroll outer cylinder. The working medium flows into the scroll inner cylinder. The scroll outer cylinder is provided to cover the scroll inner cylinder with a scroll cooling flow path therebetween where a cooling medium with a temperature lower than the working medium is supplied. The scroll cooling flow path includes an inner ring side flow path part located inside than the scroll inner cylinder in a radial direction of the turbine rotor and an outer ring side flow path part located outside than the scroll inner cylinder in the radial direction of the turbine rotor. Here, a dividing part dividing the outer ring side flow path part in an axial direction along a rotation axis of the turbine rotor is provided at the scroll inner cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Kasuya, Masao Itoh, Yuichi Morisawa, Yasunori Iwai
  • Patent number: 11174779
    Abstract: A turbocharger and method of controlling the same includes a turbine housing comprising an inlet and an outlet, turbine wheel coupled to a shaft. The turbine housing comprising a first scroll and a second scroll for fluidically coupling the inlet and the turbine wheel. The first scroll has a first end adjacent the inlet and a second end adjacent the turbine wheel. The second scroll has a third end adjacent the inlet and a fourth end adjacent the turbine wheel. An exhaust gas diverter valve is coupled to the turbine housing restricting flow into the first scroll or the second scroll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Polaris Industries Inc.
    Inventors: James H. Buchwitz, Derek D. Zimney, Lucas R. Salfer, Tim Keller, Marcel Semrau, Karsten Scholle
  • Patent number: 11168606
    Abstract: A turbine comprises a housing defining a turbine chamber with a turbine wheel supported for rotation about an axis. The housing further defines first and second inlet volutes which each spiral radially inwards and extend from a respective inlet to adjoin the turbine chamber and a volute tongue for each inlet volute. The tongue of the first volute radially separating a downstream portion of the first volute adjacent the chamber from an upstream portion of the first volute adjacent said inlet of the first volute, and the tongue of the second volute radially separating a downstream portion of the second volute adjacent the chamber from an upstream portion of the second volute adjacent said inlet of the second volute. The tongues having a turbine scroll tongue overlap which is substantially zero or positive; and the first volute tongue is angularly spaced about the axis from the second volute tongue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Cummins Ltd
    Inventor: Stephen David Hughes
  • Patent number: 11149740
    Abstract: There is provided a blower capable of suppressing fluctuation of a flow path and suppressing occurrence of surging in a use rotation range of the blower by changing a shape without increasing the number of parts. A flow path is formed by a first housing-side shroud 3e connecting to an intake port 3a and an impeller-side shroud 2c connecting outer peripheral sides of blades 2b being adjacent to each other in a radial direction in a blowing passage 8a connecting the intake port 3a and a discharge port 8b, and a narrow part 16 where a cross-sectional area of the flow path becomes the minimum is provided on an outer side of outer peripheral end portions of the blades 2b in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: SHINANO KENSHI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shin-ichiro Godo
  • Patent number: 11002154
    Abstract: Example embodiments relate to a turbocharger for a combustion machine, having a bearing housing, in which a rotor shaft is mounted so as to be rotatable about a rotor axis of rotation. An exhaust-gas turbine with a turbine wheel is arranged rotationally conjointly on the rotor shaft and which has an impeller blade arrangement with multiple turbine blades, and with a turbine housing is mechanically fixed to the bearing housing and which surrounds the turbine wheel With respect to a meridional view of the exhaust-gas turbine, the turbine housing and the turbine wheel are designed and adapted to one another such that the following condition is satisfied: L cover L axTip > 1 - Tip clr R in × 3 ? ? 4 × 1 ( 1 - R out R in ) .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Vitesco Technologies GMBH
    Inventors: Ivo Sandor, Sebastian Wittwer, Michael Klaus, Ralf Böning
  • Patent number: 10907655
    Abstract: A multiblade fan includes an impeller including a rotating plate and blades and further includes a fan casing having a circumferential wall and a first end face disposed adjacent to distal ends of the blades. The first end face has an inlet. The multiblade fan further includes a duct and a flow regulating block disposed on an inner surface of the first end face. The flow regulating block regulates a flow of the air. The duct includes a diffuser plate. The circumferential wall includes a tongue that is connected to the diffuser plate. The first end face has a bell mouth provided at the inlet. The flow regulating block is spaced from the circumferential wall and extends along the bell mouth in the rotation direction such that the flow regulating block is located in a range of 120 degrees from a reference position on a line connecting the rotary shaft to a tip of the tongue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Sakoda, Kazuki Okamoto, Hitoshi Kikuchi, Kenta Okeya
  • Patent number: 10800250
    Abstract: A utility vehicle includes a plurality of ground-engaging members, a frame supported by the ground-engaging members, and a powertrain assembly. The powertrain assembly includes an engine, a shiftable transmission, a continuously variable transmission, and a charger. Additionally, the utility vehicle may include a cooling assembly fluidly coupled to at least the engine and the charger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Polaris Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel J. Nugteren, Andrew C. Schleif, Stephen L. Nelson, Anthony J. Ripley
  • Patent number: 10738655
    Abstract: A turbocharger for an internal combustion engine having a close coupled catalyst assembly includes a turbine housing having a toroidal-shaped low pressure exhaust gas chamber having a plurality of vanes disposed proximate the outer circumferential wall of the low pressure exhaust gas chamber. The vanes are arranged to disrupt the rotational flow of the exhaust gases as they exit the turbine housing to provide a more even flow though the catalyst element of the close coupled catalyst assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Calvin K. Koch, Marc L. Friedrich, Anil Yadav, John A. Schultz
  • Patent number: 10619507
    Abstract: A turbocharger, in particular a turbocharger for a motor vehicle, is provided. The turbocharger includes a turbine to which exhaust gases can be supplied by two fluid ducts between which a separation wall extends; a closeable fluid connection hole in the separation wall that can be closed by a plate-shaped slider between the fluid ducts. The invention further relates to a motor vehicle comprising the turbocharger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Eugen Bochskanl, Josef Bauer
  • Patent number: 10513936
    Abstract: A turbine housing includes a volute flow passage with an inlet and an end that are spaced apart along a flow axis in a circumferential direction about an axis of rotation. The volute flow passage defines a plurality of cross sections arranged in series along the flow axis from the inlet to the end. The plurality of cross sections are taken normal to the flow axis. The plurality of cross sections have an area (A) and a centroid, and the centroid is spaced at a radial distance (R) from the axis of rotation. The volute flow passage has a sidewall angle distribution from the inlet to the end that is at least partly nonlinear. The volute flow passage has an A/R-distribution from the inlet to the end that is substantially linear. The volute flow passage has an A-distribution from the inlet to the end that is at least partly nonlinear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: GARRETT TRANSPORTATION I INC.
    Inventors: Ashraf Mohamed, Radu C. Florea, Filip Eckl
  • Patent number: 10465522
    Abstract: High cycle fatigue (HCF) in a turbine wheel of a sector-divided dual volute turbocharger, particularly a turbocharger where the tongue-to-blade gap is as small as from 1-3% of the wheel diameter, is reduced using a turbine wheel with (blade stiffness/backwall stiffness×100) between 41 and 44.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Carson Colley, Craig Andrew Colont, Dominic William DePaoli, Sean Hastings
  • Patent number: 10465647
    Abstract: A Francis turbine runner including a shortened band length and a shortened blade length combined with a reversed runner blade leading edge having a junction of the leading edge with the band forerunning a junction of the leading edge with the crown in the rotational direction, and a bandless runner including a shortened periphery length and a shortened blade length combined with a reversed runner blade leading edge having a corner of the leading edge at the outer periphery of the runner that is in advance of where the leading edge joins the crown in the rotational direction. Additional feature includes an inverted trailing edge curvature design on the runner blade that further shortens the blade length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Andritz Hydro Ltd.
    Inventor: Sven Von Fellenberg
  • Patent number: 10450887
    Abstract: A turbocharger is provided with a valve body which is disposed in a suction flow path leading from an inflow port of a housing covering a turbine rotor blade to a scroll portion and composed of a single piece or multiple divided pieces to supply a fluid to the turbine rotor blade with the inner surface thereof formed using a first wall surface and a second wall surface facing the first wall surface as part thereof, extends from the upstream side to the downstream side of the flow of the fluid, is rotatably provided in the housing in a direction toward and away from the first wall surface and the second wall surface, forms an upstream-side narrowed flow path with the first wall surface therebetween at an end on the upstream side, and forms a downstream-side narrowed flow path with the second wall surface therebetween at an end on the downstream side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventor: Hirotaka Higashimori
  • Patent number: 10267318
    Abstract: A turbine and method of operating a turbine includes a housing having an inlet, a volute and an outlet. The inlet is coupled to the volute through a primary fluid path and a secondary fluid path. The turbine further includes an impeller rotatably coupled to the housing and a hydraulically actuated valve assembly disposed within the secondary fluid path selectively communicating fluid from the inlet to the volute. The turbine includes a hydraulic actuator coupled to the valve assembly moving the valve assembly from a first position communicating fluid from the inlet into the volute to a second position blocking flow from the inlet to the volute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Inventor: Jason B. Hunt
  • Patent number: 10233779
    Abstract: A turbocharger turbine having housing walls defining a diffuser. Within the diffuser, a center body within the diffuser is supported by de-swirl vanes extending from the diffuser wall. The center body forms a de-swirl passageway having an increasing mean diameter of flow from an upstream end of the center body to a leading edge of the de-swirl vanes. A trailing edge of the de-swirl vanes is near the downstream end of the center body. Annular-type guide vanes surround the center body within the de-swirl passageway. A wastegate system is configured to vent wastegate flow into the diffuser through injection ports on the de-swirl vanes, annular guide vanes and/or center body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: GARRETT TRANSPORTATION I INC.
    Inventors: Christopher W. Wilkins, Wagner M. Magalhaes, Bharathi Raja Sugumaran, Martin Babak
  • Patent number: 10215151
    Abstract: Aerating system for the runner of a hydraulic turbine, the runner comprising a plurality of blades, such that inter-blade canals are configured between each pair of blades for the admission of air in the water flow circulating through the hydraulic turbine, such that the aerating system comprises at least one hydrofoil located in the inter-blade canal of the runner contacting the pair of blades configuring the inter-blade canal where the hydrofoil is located, such that the hydrofoil has a non-axis symmetrical profile, and such that at least one of the blades in contact with the hydrofoil comprises an aerating canal delivering air to the hydrofoil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: GE RENEWABLE TECHNOLOGIES
    Inventors: Sebastien Beaulieu, Michel Sabourin, Laurent Bornard, Guillaume Boutet-Blais
  • Patent number: 10190415
    Abstract: A turbocharger has a shaft with a rotational axis, a radial/axial turbine wheel which is arranged in a turbine housing and which is connected to the shaft in a non-rotatable manner, and a bearing housing which adjoins the turbine housing and which contains a lateral wall facing the turbine housing. A sub-region of the lateral wall of the bearing housing forms a sub-region of the rear wall of the turbine housing. The sub-region of the bearing housing has two sub-sections, one of which runs diagonally to the rotational axis in an inflow direction of an exhaust gas flow conducted into the turbine housing and the second of which runs in a radial direction relative to the rotational axis of the shaft and parallel to the rear wall of the turbine wheel. The two sub-sections are connected to each other via an exhaust gas flow separation edge of the bearing housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Holger Faeth, Marc Hiller, Ivo Sandor
  • Patent number: 10174709
    Abstract: Systems are provided for an integrated exhaust manifold that may be used in a variety of engine systems. In one example, an integrated exhaust manifold may include a central axis running from an inlet end to an outlet end of the integrated exhaust manifold and two exhaust outlets arranged at the outlet end and coupled to a common collecting line, the two exhaust outlets symmetrically positioned across the central axis and having a same diameter, where each exhaust outlet of the two exhaust outlets has a passage axis arranged parallel to the central axis. A first exhaust outlet of the two exhaust outlets may be permanently blocked and a second exhaust outlet of the two exhaust outlets may be coupled to an exhaust system of an engine system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Wilbert Hemink, Bas van den Heuvel
  • Patent number: 10151236
    Abstract: Methods and systems for adjusting a branch communication valve in a dual scroll turbocharger system are provided. In one example, a method may include adjusting a position of a valve arranged between a first adaptor and a second adaptor to enable mixing of exhaust received from an exhaust manifold, the exhaust delivered to a first scroll and a second scroll of a turbocharger to drive a turbine during certain engine operating conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Xiaogang Zhang
  • Patent number: 10024230
    Abstract: A controller for an engine system includes an exhaust-driven turbocharger including a compressor and a turbine, an exhaust gas recirculation unit configured to recirculate exhaust gas from a downstream portion of the turbine in an exhaust gas passage to an upstream portion of the compressor in an intake gas passage, and a cooling unit configured to cool the turbine, the controller includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to set a degree of cooling of the turbine based on a predetermined condition in which a gas temperature at an outlet portion of the compressor is higher than a predetermined temperature and the recirculating of exhaust gas is performed, and set a higher degree of cooling of the turbine when the predetermined condition is satisfied compared to a degree of cooling of the turbine when the predetermined condition is not satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Akitoshi Iwata
  • Patent number: 9874222
    Abstract: The flow-through characteristics of twin exhaust gas scroll passages of a turbine are made equal to each other. A tongue which partitions the scroll portions into outer peripheral portions and inner peripheral portions includes a front-side tongue and a rear-side tongue that respectively close the two exhaust gas passages at the outer peripheral portion. The inner sides of the front-side tongue and the rear-side tongue, and the minimal outflow width portions of the front-side passage and the rear-side passage, respectively, are formed substantially parallel to each other at a downstream end of the outer peripheral portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Toyotaka Yoshida, Takao Yokoyama, Motoki Ebisu
  • Patent number: 9874138
    Abstract: A twin scroll turbocharger device for an internal combustion engine includes a turbine and a compressor, wherein the turbine comprises a first turbine scroll and a second turbine scroll, and wherein at least the first turbine scroll is provided with a turbine scroll inlet valve such that the exhaust gas flow through the first turbine scroll is controllable. The twin scroll turbocharger device is further characterized in that a bypass conduit is provided between a compressor and at least the first turbine scroll. The bypass conduit is provided with a bypass conduit valve such that a flow through the bypass conduit is controllable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Volvo Car Corporation
    Inventor: Goran Almkvist
  • Patent number: 9790957
    Abstract: An object is to provide an air intake duct structure for a centrifugal fluid machine, capable of swirling the fluid introduced into the impeller in the reverse direction to increase the pressure ratio when the flow rate is high and swirling the fluid in the forward direction to avoid a surging when the flow rate is low, as well as securing a wide operating range, without using mechanical means. The centrifugal fluid machine 1 includes an impeller 12 mounted to a rotation shaft and a housing 4 for housing the impeller 12. The air intake duct structure 10 is for directing a fluid “f” to a rotational center 12a of the impeller 12 housed in the housing 4 via an intake duct portion 4a of the housing 4 protruding in an axial direction of the rotation shaft, the fluid “f” flowing in a substantially orthogonal direction to a rotational axis line 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Isao Tomita, Masaki Tojo, Takao Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 9631625
    Abstract: A statorless axial turbine for a turbocharger has a turbine housing assembly defining a meridionally divided scroll extending circumferentially and surrounding the turbine wheel, the meridionally divided scroll defining a first scroll extending substantially fully about the turbine wheel and a separate second scroll extending substantially fully about the turbine wheel. The turbine housing assembly defines a separate inlet for each of the first and second scrolls through which a separate exhaust gas stream is received, and separate first and second outlets for each of the first and second scrolls, respectively, through which the respective exhaust gas streams are fed into an inlet side of the turbine wheel generally in an axial direction of the turbine wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Vit Houst, Vaclav Kares
  • Patent number: 9631638
    Abstract: A thinned heat dissipation fan with core reversely installed includes: a base including a bottom plate and a lateral wall formed at the periphery of the bottom plate; a circuit unit disposed on the bottom plate; a core welded in a core welding hole formed on the bottom plate of the base or welded in a core welding hole of a sleeve seat fastened on the base; and a rotor set including a hub, a plurality of blades disposed at the periphery of the hub, a bearing module and a permanent magnet disposed at the inner sides of the plural blades, wherein the hub is formed with a bearing opening, the bearing module is fastened in the bearing opening, and the core is inserted in the bearing module. The above-mentioned welding means is preferably to be a laser welding means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: COOLER MASTER (KUNSHAN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fu-Lung Lin, Hui-Hai Yang, Tong-Xian Chen
  • Patent number: 9587554
    Abstract: A twin-scroll turbocharger comprises front and rear scrolls, a scroll throat portion separating the scrolls, a rotor blade rotated by exhaust gas, and a turbine housing forming, with an outer circumferential portion of the rotor blade, the front scroll and the rear scroll, and including an inclined surface on which an extended line of the incline facing toward the scroll throat portion of the front scroll and an inlet of the rotor blade intersect at a position in a central portion of the inlet of the rotor blade, wherein the connection R at a crossing portion P where the inclined surface and an inner periphery surface of the turbine housing intersect has a shape such that the gap of a constant width a continues to the position of the inlet of the rotor blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Hoshi, Takao Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 9441534
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes a cylinder block defining a cylinder, a cylinder head, and an exhaust manifold operatively connected to the cylinder head and configured to exhaust post-combustion gasses from the cylinder. The engine also includes a turbocharging system configured to pressurize an airflow for delivery thereof to the cylinder. The turbocharging system includes a low-flow turbocharger having a first turbine housing and a high-flow turbocharger having a second turbine housing. Each turbocharger is configured to be driven by the post-combustion gasses from the exhaust manifold in order to pressurize the airflow and discharge the pressurized airflow to the cylinder. The turbocharging system also includes a flow control device for selectively directing the post-combustion gasses to the low-flow and high-flow turbochargers. The turbocharging system additionally includes a cooling module configured to cool the second turbine housing. A vehicle employing such an engine is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Ko-Jen Wu, Jason G. Kohler
  • Patent number: 9429162
    Abstract: A statorless or nozzleless axial turbine for a turbocharger has an axial turbine wheel that receives a swirling flow of exhaust gas substantially in an axial direction. The turbine includes a sector-divided turbine housing defining a plurality of separate exhaust gas inlets each for receiving a separate exhaust gas stream from an internal combustion engine, the sector-divided turbine housing further defining a plurality of separate angular sector passageways each of which occupies a fractional part of a circumference surrounding the turbine wheel, each angular sector passageway being supplied with exhaust gas by a respective one of the plurality of exhaust gas inlets. The turbine housing assembly defines a separate sector outlet for each angular sector passageway. The turbine housing assembly can include a separately formed heat shroud, and the sector outlets can be formed at least in part by the heat shroud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Vit Houst, Vaclav Kares
  • Patent number: 9399923
    Abstract: In a turbine for an exhaust gas turbocharger having a turbine housing which has a first and a second spiral channel with the second spiral channel extending over a wrap angle range of less than 360 degrees of a turbine wheel of the turbine, and the first spiral channel having a larger wrap angle range than the second spiral channel and the spiral channels being arranged adjacent each other in at least one angular range which includes the wrap angle ranges, the nozzle has an overall nozzle width via which exhaust gas is admitted to the turbine wheel over a respective partial nozzle width of the spiral channels wherein the partial nozzle width of the first spiral channel is greater than the partial nozzle width of the first spiral channel in the first angular range, at least in a further angular range of the wrap angle range which is different from the at least one angular range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: DAIMLER AG
    Inventors: Nils Brinkert, Siegfried Sumser
  • Patent number: 9366177
    Abstract: A supercharged internal combustion engine comprising a two channel turbine fluidly connects the two channels within the turbine housing by virtue of at least one opening in the housing wall which separates the two channels wherein at least one displaceable wall part is provided which serves for opening up the opening in the housing wall to optimize the performance of the turbine responsive to the exhaust gas flow rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Helmut Matthias Kindl, Norbert Andreas Schorn, Vanco Smiljanovski, Rob Stalman, Franz Arnd Sommerhoff
  • Patent number: 9359939
    Abstract: A supercharged internal combustion engine wherein a two-channel turbine comprising a shut-off body positioned within a flow transfer duct within a turbine housing fluidly couples the two channels of a turbine housing to one another via the transfer duct responsive to the exhaust gas flow rate to enable better operation of the turbocharger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Helmut Matthias Kindl, Norbert Andreas Schorn, Vanco Smiljanovski, Rob Stalman, Franz Arnd Sommerhoff
  • Patent number: 9322413
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a centrifugal fan. A driving device is connected to an impeller and drives the impeller to rotate within a case. The flowing channel includes a pressure-enhanced section and an output section. The case includes an air input section, an axial inlet section and a radial air outlet. The bottom base has a center and allows the driving device to be secured thereon. Multiple ribs are interconnected between the bottom base and the case to define air inlets among the ribs, the bottom base and the case. The air inlet within the output section has an outmost edge, which is farther from the center than an outmost edge of the air inlet within the pressure-enhanced section, or the air inlet within the output section has an area, which is larger than that of the air inlet within the pressure-enhanced section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Hsin-Chen Lin, Hsiang-Jung Huang
  • Patent number: 9016060
    Abstract: An exhaust-gas supply device (1) of a turbine wheel (2) of an exhaust-gas turbocharger (3), having a two-channel turbine housing (4) and an exhaust manifold (7) which can be connected to an internal combustion engine (8), which exhaust manifold (7) has a first manifold channel (9) which connects first cylinders (Z1, Z4) of the internal combustion engine (8) so as to form a first manifold exhaust-gas path length, and a second manifold channel (10) which connects second cylinders (Z2, Z3) so as to form a second manifold exhaust-gas path length, to generate virtually identical overall exhaust-gas path lengths of the two channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventor: Rolf Sauerstein
  • Patent number: 8997485
    Abstract: In a turbine for an exhaust gas turbocharger of an internal combustion engine comprising a turbine housing part, which has at least two spiral channels with respective inlets through which exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine is directed onto a turbine rotor disposed in the turbine housing part, the turbine housing part is disposed in an accommodating chamber, which is formed by a further housing part of the turbine, and from which accommodating chamber exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine can flow through the channel inlets into the spiral channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Siegfried Sumser, Torsten Hirth
  • Patent number: 8984879
    Abstract: A variable geometry turbocharger is simplified yet able to maintain pulse energy. In a first embodiment, a turbine housing is provided with a pivoting wall which pivots about a point near the entry to the turbine housing. By moving the wall about the pivot point, the effective volume of the turbine housing volute is varied, thus effectively reducing the volume of exhaust gas in the volute, allowing control of exhaust gas flowing to the turbine wheel. In the second embodiment of the invention, a rotating wedge segment within the volute is rotated from a first position to a second position, changing the effective volume of the volute and allowing control of exhaust gas flowing to the turbine wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventors: John P. Watson, Tilman Bernauer, Kurtis E. Henderson, David G. Grabowska
  • Fan
    Patent number: 8974195
    Abstract: A fan includes a housing and a motor. The housing has a compartment, at least one lateral air inlet and at least one lateral air outlet. The lateral air inlet and lateral air outlet communicate with the compartment. The motor has a stator and an impeller. The impeller is coupled with the stator and includes a hub and a plurality of blades coupled with a top face of the hub. Each blade has first and second ends. The first ends of the blades face outwards, and the second ends of the blades define an air-guiding room encompassed by a virtual geometric pattern formed by a virtual line linking the second ends of the blades. The virtual geometric pattern has a maximal diameter. A gap is formed between the second ends of two adjacent blades. The gap is smaller than the maximal diameter of the virtual geometric pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Sunonwealth Electric Machine Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Alex Horng, Ko-Chien Wang
  • Publication number: 20150044034
    Abstract: An object is to provide a turbine housing assembly in which reduction of weight, facilitation of manufacture, cost-cutting, and reduction of heat capacity are further promoted compared to a conventional turbine housing made of sheet metal. A turbine housing assembly includes a plurality of constituent members connected to one another to constitute a turbine housing into which a turbine wheel is inserted. The turbine housing assembly at least includes a scroll part 2 and an exhaust part 8 of a tubular shape having a separate body separate from the scroll part 2. The scroll part 2 is formed by processing a single piece of sheet metal so that, on a back face side of a bottom face part 22 of the scroll part 2, a recess portion 22b on which a through-hole of an exhaust gas outlet 2B is formed and a projecting portion 22a formed by a bottom surface of an exhaust gas flow path 2A projecting toward the back face side are formed, the projecting portion 22a surrounding the recess portion 22b.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuaki Jinnai, Hiroyuki Arimizu, Koen Kramer
  • Patent number: 8951007
    Abstract: In the turbine housing for an exhaust gas turbocharger of a drive assembly at least one spiral channel, which can be coupled to an exhaust gas line of the drive assembly is provided A receiving chamber for a turbine wheel to which exhaust gas can be supplied is disposed upstream of the at least one spiral channel. The turbine wheel is disposed in the turbine housing so as to be rotatable about a rotational axis. A guide baffle is arranged fixed to the turbine housing in a transition region between the at least one spiral channel, the guide baffle being connected to the turbine housing by a metal-to-metal joint whereby the guide baffle is connected to the turbine housing in a particular tight manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Siegfried Botsch, Stephan Krätschmer, Markus Müller, Siegfried Sumser
  • Publication number: 20140377059
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for injecting exhaust gases from an exhaust gas recirculation system proximate to a trailing edge of a compressor wheel of a compressor. In one example, a compressor of a turbocharger may include an exhaust gas recirculation inlet volute within a casting of the compressor. The exhaust gas recirculation inlet volute may include an injection port positioned downstream of the trailing edge of the compressor wheel for injecting exhaust gases into intake air flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Joseph Norman Ulrey, Keith Michael Plagens, Gregory Patrick McConville, Daniel Joseph Styles
  • Publication number: 20140356153
    Abstract: To provide a turbocharger capable of turbocharging efficiency and reducing cost by suppressing a rapid expansion of exhaust gas blown from an outlet of a scroll in the vicinity of an inlet of a rotor blade, a twin-scroll turbocharger (1) comprises a rear scroll (22), a front scroll (21), a scroll throat portion (24) configured to separate the scrolls, a rotor blade (3) configured to be rotated by exhaust gas, and a turbine housing (2) configured to form, with an outer circumferential portion of the rotor blade (3), the front scroll (21) and the rear scroll (22), and includes an inclined surface (28) on which an extended line of the incline of the surface facing toward the scroll throat portion (24) of the front scroll and an inlet (3a) of the rotor blade intersect at a position in a central portion of the inlet (3a) of the rotor blade, wherein the connection R at a crossing portion P where the inclined surface (28) and an inner periphery surface (26) of the turbine housing (2), having a gap of a constant widt
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Hoshi, Takao Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 8869525
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an exhaust-gas turbocharger (1) having a turbine housing (2) and having a manifold section (3) which is connected to the turbine housing (2), wherein the turbine housing (2) and the manifold section (3) are formed as a single-piece cast part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignees: BorgWarner Inc., Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Robert Lingenauber, Patrick Steingass, Jan Velthuis
  • Patent number: 8864455
    Abstract: An impulse wind machine comprises the following: A funnel configured to capture air from the wind. A turbine housing configured to direct the air to the center (eye) of the housing where the air passes through directional vanes. A rotor configured to rotate within the eye of the turbine housing and configured with impulse blades along the longitudinal periphery. Air from the directional vanes impinges the impulse blades to cause rotor rotation. An exhaust deflector configured inside the cavity of the rotor to deflect exhaust air from the impulse blades axially out the ends of the rotor. Spokes on the rotor configured to provide a fan action during rotor rotation aiding removal of the exhaust air. A generator and a gearbox driven by a shaft connected to the rotor for generating electrical power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Inventor: Loyd Dale Perry
  • Patent number: 8857178
    Abstract: A turbocharger for an internal combustion engine includes a center housing, a shaft rotatably supported in the center housing, and a turbine wheel connected at one end of the shaft. A turbine housing is connected to the center housing and disposed around the turbine wheel. A bore formed in the turbine housing extends from a gas outlet end of the turbine housing to an annular stop surface of the turbine housing disposed adjacent the turbine wheel. A nozzle ring disposed in the bore surrounds a portion of the turbine wheel. An outlet cone is disposed at least partially in the bore and surrounds a remaining portion of the turbine wheel. The outlet cone is connected to the gas outlet end of the turbine housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventor: Steve O'Hara
  • Patent number: 8807929
    Abstract: A turbine housing for a supercharger, includes an inlet opening, a turbine seat and a race extending from the inlet opening to the turbine seat, the race including a first spiral chamber (7) which mouth into the turbine seat and a second spiral chamber (8) which mouth into the turbine seat. Both the first spiral chamber (7) and the second spiral chamber (8) mouth in a first angular segment (?) of the turbine seat, the axial height of the mouth into the turbine seat of the second spiral chamber (8) in the first angular segment (?) is bigger in the end of the first angular segment (?) than in the beginning thereof seen in a flow direction (F), and in that the A/R-ratio of the first spiral chamber (7) is smaller than the common A/R-ratio of the first spiral chamber (7) and the second spiral chamber (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Alpraaz AB
    Inventor: Christian V. Koenigsegg
  • Patent number: 8726655
    Abstract: A modular exhaust gas assembly includes a turbocharger housing having an exhaust flange and a bearing flange receptacle, and a plurality of turbine scrolls of different sizes for selective installation into the turbocharger housing in dependence on a power of an engine. Each turbine scroll has an inlet zone and is connected to the bearing flange receptacle via a selected one of a plurality of different bearing flanges and to the exhaust flange via a selected one of a plurality of different exhaust links. The inlet zone of each turbine scroll is configured to complement a contour of an outlet zone of a standard manifold so that the turbine scrolls are selectively connectable via their inlet zone to the manifold to suit the engine power at hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Benteler Automobiltechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Smatloch, Elmar Grussmann, Frank Arlt
  • Fan
    Patent number: 8702403
    Abstract: A fan includes a housing having a compartment formed inside, and at least one lateral air inlet and at least one lateral air outlet both penetrating through the inner and outer surfaces of the housing and communicating with the compartment. A motor is mounted inside the compartment of the housing and has a stator and an impeller, with the impeller rotatably coupled to the stator and further containing a hub and a plurality of blades mounted to a top of the hub. Each blade has a first end and a second end in the radial direction of the impeller opposite to each other, with the first end of each blade facing outward, and with the second ends of the plural blades defining an airflow-area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Sunonwealth Electric Machine Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Alex Horng, Ko-Chien Wang, Yeh-Feng Chen
  • Patent number: 8690552
    Abstract: A compact, strengthened rotor assembly of a radiator fan, the radiator fan having a baseplate, a stator assembly, a rotor assembly and a reverse axle. The reverse axle is erected at the center of the baseplate or stator assembly and protruded upwards. The rotor assembly has a hub with a top wall and a circumferential wall. A magnetic ring is set annularly into the circumferential wall. Several blades are set annularly onto the exterior of the circumferential wall. A metal sleeve is located at the center of the top wall and protruded downwards. A mating portion is set at the top of the metal sleeve for mating with the top wall. A holding portion is formed within the metal sleeve for assembly and positioning of a bearing, and the bearing is used for pivoting of the reverse axle. The thickness of the top wall ranges between 0.2 mm and 0.5 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Forcecon Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Liang-Sheng Chang, Tien-Chin Wu, Sheng-Chi Lei, Evan Chang
  • Patent number: 8672650
    Abstract: A cooling fan includes a housing and a motor. The housing includes a support portion, a cover portion and a lateral wall portion. The lateral wall portion is disposed between the cover portion and the support portion, and the lateral wall portion, support portion and the cover portion define a compartment, with the lateral wall portion having at least one lateral air inlet and at least one lateral air outlet penetrating through the lateral wall portion and communicating with the compartment. The motor is mounted inside the compartment of the housing and contains a stator and a impeller, with the impeller rotatably mounting to the stator. The motor further contains a hub with a top and a plurality of blades, with the top facing the cover portion, with the top and the cover portion delimiting a lateral flow path in the compartment, and with each blade being contained in the lateral flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sunonwealth Electric Machine Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Alex Horng, Ko-Chien Wang, Yeh-Feng Chen