Patents Assigned to ABB Turbo Systems AG
  • Patent number: 10473114
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a compressor assembly for a turbocharger. The compressor assembly may comprise a spiral housing with a flow channel which is designed to convey a fluid which can be sucked up from outside the compressor assembly, a compressor outlet flange which is fluidically connected to the spiral housing via the flow channel, and an injection device designed to introduce a fluid from outside the compressor assembly into the flow channel, wherein the injection device is arranged outside the flow channel of the spiral housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: ABB Turbo Systems AG
    Inventors: Daniel Rusch, Gerd Mundinger
  • Patent number: 10473115
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a diffuser for a radial compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: ABB Turbo Systems AG
    Inventors: Christian Kreienkamp, Armin Reichl, Daniel Rusch
  • Patent number: 9938988
    Abstract: An exhaust turbocharger comprises a turbine having a turbine wheel and a compressor having a compressor wheel. The turbine wheel and the compressor wheel are connected by a shaft rotatably mounted in a bearing housing. A means for axially securing the shaft and the turbine wheel connected thereto is provided between the compressor wheel and the turbine wheel. The means limits an axial movement of the shaft and of the turbine wheel connected thereto in the direction of the turbine in the event of the compressor wheel bursting. The means comprises a component which is screwed onto the shaft during mounting and is fixed in the axial direction in the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: ABB TURBO SYSTEMS AG
    Inventors: Christoph Morath, Stefan Gantert
  • Patent number: 9909456
    Abstract: An exemplary nozzle ring has two fastening rings and a plurality of guide vanes, wherein holes are provided in one of the fastening rings for accommodating pins of the guide vanes, and openings are provided in the other fastening ring for accommodating positioning aids on the guide vanes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: ABB Turbo Systems AG
    Inventors: Matthias Richner, Josef Bättig
  • Patent number: 9896973
    Abstract: A lifting apparatus for assembly of exhaust turbocharger allows the removal of the rotor block from the housing in a horizontal direction. The lifting apparatus includes a cantilever, which is fastened on a vertical stop, i.e. on an axial end, of the housing, and on which there is arranged a structure which can be moved along the cantilever and which is likewise fastened on a vertical stop, i.e. an axial end of the rotor block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: ABB Turbo Systems AG
    Inventors: Fabrizio Lanni, Matthias Jarusel, Reiner Probst, Rudolf Roder, Hans Baumgartner
  • Patent number: 9541095
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a 2-stage supercharging unit having a housing unit which integrates within it a high-pressure charger and a low-pressure charger. The rotor axes of the two chargers are vertical with respect to the housing unit, which can be screwed directly via the housing base to the side of an internal combustion engine. As a result, increased flexibility is made possible with regard to the connection of the supercharging unit to the cooler and to the internal combustion engine, whereby the structural volume of the supercharging assembly can be additionally reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: ABB TURBO SYSTEMS AG
    Inventors: Christoph Mathey, Joel Schlienger, Olaf Baudisch, Patrick Aberle
  • Patent number: 9540954
    Abstract: An exemplary arrangement for securing the shaft of an exhaust-gas turbocharger includes a catch ring with a central opening and a radial projection on the shaft. The catch ring having an inner contour in the region of the central opening. The radial projection on the shaft is provided with an outer contour. The inner contour on the catch ring and the outer contour on the shaft are configured such that, during mounting of the shaft and of the turbine wheel connected thereto and in at least one specified angle position of the shaft with respect to the housing, the radially outwardly protruding projection on the shaft can be passed in an axial direction through the central opening of the housing element. The radially outwardly protruding projection abuts in the axial direction against the housing element in specified angle positions of the shaft with respect to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: ABB Turbo Systems AG
    Inventors: Joel Schlienger, Markus Lebong, Olaf Baudisch, Patrick Aberle
  • Patent number: 9228549
    Abstract: A sound attenuator on the intake side of a compressor of an exhaust-gas turbocharger includes a tubular sound attenuator housing, which encases a flow duct between a face-side inlet opening and a rear-side outlet opening. A holding plate is provided in the sound attenuator housing in the flow direction and is perforated in the flow direction. For example, the holding plate can have a multiplicity of holes extending in the flow direction. The sound attenuator on the intake side of the compressor of an exhaust-gas turbocharger has a compact, lightweight and inexpensive structural form. The intake air is subjected to low resistance as it flows through the attenuation elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: ABB TURBO SYSTEMS AG
    Inventors: Heinz-Jürgen Feld, Llija Mrvelj, Philipp Meyer
  • Patent number: 9169738
    Abstract: A shaft seal of the rotating wheel shaft of a turbomachine includes a rotating wheel-side seal and a bearing-side seal between the bearing housing and the shaft. An oil outlet chamber is arranged between the rotating wheel-side seal and the bearing-side seal. The oil outlet chamber is delimited by a third seal between the bearing housing and the shaft, and a gas discharge chamber is arranged between the third seal and the rotating wheel-side seal. The construction is actively cooled by means of at least one splash oil bore in the region of the oil drain channel, as a result of which coking of the shaft seal can be prevented. The third seal separates the oil issuing from the oil outlet chamber from the gas issuing from the gas discharge chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: ABB TURBO SYSTEMS AG
    Inventors: Joel Schlienger, Matthias Kies, Patrick Aberle, Gerd Mundinger
  • Publication number: 20140301827
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a 2-stage supercharging unit having a housing unit which integrates within it a high-pressure charger and a low-pressure charger. The rotor axes of the two chargers are vertical with respect to the housing unit, which can be screwed directly via the housing base to the side of an internal combustion engine. As a result, increased flexibility is made possible with regard to the connection of the supercharging unit to the cooler and to the internal combustion engine, whereby the structural volume of the supercharging assembly can be additionally reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: ABB TURBO SYSTEMS AG
    Inventors: Christoph MATHEY, Joel Schlienger, Olaf Baudisch, Patrick Aberle
  • Publication number: 20140286758
    Abstract: A segmented nozzle ring is disclosed having a throat area between neighboring vanes that is the same for each segment which is achieved by rotation (i.e., opening or closing of the throat area) of the individual vane compounds belonging to the different segments. The resulting uniform throat area leads to a uniform exit flow angle of the nozzle and a uniform inlet flow angle of the rotor. As a result, high-cycle fatigue excitations of the rotor caused by the non-uniform flow can be eliminated, the thermodynamic efficiency of the turbine stage can be improved, and the nozzle ring need not be arranged in a fixed position relative to the gas inlet casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: ABB TURBO SYSTEMS AG
    Inventor: Stephan M. Senn
  • Publication number: 20140251719
    Abstract: A sound attenuator on the intake side of a compressor of an exhaust-gas turbocharger includes a tubular sound attenuator housing, which encases a flow duct between a face-side inlet opening and a rear-side outlet opening. A holding plate is provided in the sound attenuator housing in the flow direction and is perforated in the flow direction. For example, the holding plate can have a multiplicity of holes extending in the flow direction. The sound attenuator on the intake side of the compressor of an exhaust-gas turbocharger has a compact, lightweight and inexpensive structural form. The intake air is subjected to low resistance as it flows through the attenuation elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: ABB TURBO SYSTEMS AG
    Inventors: Heinz-Jürgen FELD, Llija Mrvelj, Philipp Meyer
  • Publication number: 20140241887
    Abstract: A hydrodynamic axial bearing for mounting a shaft which is mounted rotatably in a bearing housing, including an axial stop of the bearing housing and a bearing comb which rotates with the shaft. A lubricating gap, which is loaded with lubricating oil and is delimited by a profiled circular ring face and a sliding face, being formed between the axial stop and the bearing comb. The profiled circular ring face and the sliding face are configured in such a way that the lubricating gap is constricted radially to the outside with regard to the axial direction. As a result, temperature deformations which occur during operation and deformations on account of centrifugal, shearing and other forces in the bearing comb can be compensated for.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: ABB Turbo Systems AG
    Inventors: Peter NEUENSCHWANDER, Bruno Ammann, Marco Di Pietro, Markus Städeli
  • Publication number: 20140140834
    Abstract: An exemplary nozzle ring has two fastening rings and a plurality of guide vanes, wherein holes are provided in one of the fastening rings for accommodating pins of the guide vanes, and openings are provided in the other fastening ring for accommodating positioning aids on the guide vanes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: ABB Turbo Systems AG
    Inventors: Matthias RICHNER, Josef BÄTTIG
  • Patent number: 8517679
    Abstract: The piston ring sealing points of a sealing apparatus between the rotor and the housing of a continuous-flow machine each have a piston ring, a cylindrical contact surface, which is directed radially inward, on the housing, as well as an axial stop on the rotor. In this case, the piston ring of the outer piston ring sealing point has a larger external radius and a smaller internal radius than the piston ring of the inner piston ring sealing point. At the same time, the outer piston ring sealing point has a smaller internal radius than the inner piston ring sealing point. Because of the V-shaped arrangement concept, there is no need for a steel ring, shrunk onto the rotor, between the piston ring sealing points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: ABB Turbo Systems AG
    Inventors: Joel Schlienger, Patrick Aberle
  • Patent number: 8398363
    Abstract: A device for sealing a bearing housing, which holds lubricating oil, from which a rotor supported inside the housing of an exhaust gas turbocharger is guided into a compressor housing, loadable by a mass flow of a charger. The device includes a fixed partition with a wall extension, a sealing disk fastened on a shaft of the rotor, a separating gap arranged between the sealing disk and the wall extension, and a drip device connected to an oil-collecting channel and directs lubricating oil collected in the oil-collecting channel into an oil drain by gravity. The drip device includes a drain-off surface for lubricating oil, which has a large axial distance from a rotating sealing disk which delimits the separating gap. Lubricating oil which can penetrate into the separating gap is guided into an oil drain of the bearing housing without interacting with the sealing disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: ABB Turbo Systems AG
    Inventors: Gerd Mundinger, Joel Schlienger, Matthias Kies, Patrick Aberle
  • Patent number: 8393851
    Abstract: A compressor casing includes a casing insert with a flexible element in the force flux between the insert wall contour and the outer compressor casing. The flexible element is assembled from a support ring and ribs, wherein the ribs axially in front of the support ring and the ribs axially behind the support ring are arranged in an offset manner in relation to each other. Due to the arrangement of the ribs in an offset manner, the axial force flux between the insert wall contour and the outer compressor casing is deflected twice, and an axially compliant flexible construction is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: ABB Turbo Systems AG
    Inventors: Joel Schlienger, Patrick Aberle
  • Patent number: 8251647
    Abstract: The fastening for an attachment of a guide device to a gas outlet housing is positioned in a region radially outside guide blades. In this way, a circumferential position of the guide blades may be freely selected within predefined angles. Collisions are avoided between the guide blades and fasteners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: ABB Turbo Systems AG
    Inventors: Matthias Jarusel, Peter Neuenschwander, Thorsten Bosse, Bent Phillipsen
  • Publication number: 20120128479
    Abstract: The guide device for the diffusor at the compressor impeller outlet of a radial compressor has guide blades with stepped inlet edges. The step is implemented by setting back the hub-side inlet edge. This meridional stepping divides the guide blades into two component blades, of which the first component blade is made longer than the second component blade. The set-back of the inlet edge of the hub-side component blade and the associated superposition of the noise fields which are produced on the front and rear inlet edge of the diffusor leads to improvement of the acoustic properties of the compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: ABB Turbo Systems AG
    Inventors: Janpeter KÜHNEL, Heinz-Jürgen FELD, Christine LINDBLOM
  • Patent number: 8162604
    Abstract: The guide device for the diffusor at the compressor impeller outlet of a radial compressor has guide blades with stepped inlet edges. The step is implemented by setting back the hub-side inlet edge. This meridional stepping divides the guide blades into two component blades, of which the first component blade is made longer than the second component blade. The set-back of the inlet edge of the hub-side component blade and the associated superposition of the noise fields which are produced on the front and rear inlet edge of the diffusor leads to improvement of the acoustic properties of the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: ABB Turbo Systems AG
    Inventors: Janpeter Kühnel, Heinz-J{dot over (u)}rgen Feld, Christine Lindblom