Abstract: A valve having a metal insert with a fluid passage formed in the metal insert. A composite valve body is disposed at least partially around the metal insert and having at least one port in fluid communication) with the fluid passage with the metal insert. A valve member is partially disposed in the metal insert and operable to control the fluid flow through the fluid passage of the metal insert and parts of the valve body.

Abstract: A heat exchanger for cooling high temperature components of a circuit board is disclosed. The heat exchanger may comprise a housing including a coolant inlet, a coolant outlet, a first side wall, a second side wall, and an upper housing portion assembled with a lower housing portion. The heat exchanger may further include a first array of plates on the upper housing portion, and a second array of plates on the lower housing portion extending parallel to and interleaved with the first array of plates. Each of the plates may have an aperture that is laterally and vertically opposed to the aperture of an immediately adjacent plate. The interleaving first and second arrays of plates may create a lateral and vertical serpentine fluid flow path.

Abstract: A turbocharger includes a bearing housing defining an interior. The turbocharger also includes a shaft and a thrust bearing assembly disposed about the shaft. The thrust bearing assembly includes a thrust plate defining a bore configured to receive the shaft and having a first thrust surface which is integral. The thrust bearing assembly also includes a bearing having a second thrust surface which is integral. The thrust bearing assembly further includes a washer disposed between the thrust plate and the bearing. The washer has a third thrust surface which is integral, and an opposite fourth thrust surface which is integral. The third thrust surface faces the first thrust surface for engagement with the first thrust surface, and the fourth thrust surface faces the second thrust surface for engagement with the second thrust surface.

Abstract: A bearing housing for a turbocharger is disclosed. The bearing housing includes a first end proximate to a turbine wheel of the turbocharger and a second end proximate to a compressor wheel of the turbocharger. The bearing housing further includes a central chamber disposed between the first end and the second end and configured to house, at least, the shaft. The bearing housing further includes an oil drain disposed radially outward of the shaft and configured for directing oil out of the bearing housing and an oil core disposed radially outward of the shaft and radially inward of the oil drain, the oil core configured for communicating oil towards the oil drain and having an inner wall. The bearing housing includes one or more strakes protruding radially inward from the inner wall, the one or more strakes configured to direct oil within the oil core towards the oil drain.

Abstract: A system for controlling fluid flow to and from a clutch includes a motor, a pump, and a valve assembly, which includes a housing defining an interior and a first orifice operably coupled to the pump, a second orifice operably coupled to the clutch, and a third orifice fluidly coupled to one of said first and second orifices. A piston is operably coupled to the motor, is disposed within the interior, is movable between a first position for allowing a fluid flow between the first and second orifices, a second position for obstructing the fluid flow between the first and second orifices, and a third position for limiting the fluid flow between the first and second orifices. A biasing member is coupled to the piston, and biases the piston toward the first position when the motor is off. When the pump is activated and a pressure proximate the first orifice is equal to a pressure proximate the second orifice, the motor is energized and moves the piston to the second position.

Abstract: A wire forming apparatus comprises a first rack moveable relative to a second rack in a first direction, a plurality of first forming structures provided on the first rack, and a plurality of second forming structures provided on the second rack. Each of the plurality of first forming structures is configured to move in the first direction, is separated from an adjacent first forming structure, and is configured to move in a second direction closer to the adjacent first forming structure when the first rack moves relative to the second rack. Each of the plurality of second forming structures is configured to move in the first direction, is separated from an adjacent second forming structure, and is configured to move in the second direction closer to the adjacent second forming structure when the first rack moves relative to the second rack. The second direction is different from the first direction.

Abstract: A number of variations may include a product including a single clutch pack having a plurality of clutch plates, and a first friction material on a first plate of the plurality of clutch plates, and a second friction material on a second plate of the plurality of plates, the first friction material being different than the second friction material, and constructed and arranged to provide a tailored combination of torque capacity and response time that would be produced by a clutch pack having solely the first friction material on plates thereof or the second friction material on plates thereof.

Abstract: An electric machine includes a stator assembly, a rotor positioned within the stator assembly, and a rotor carrier coupled to the rotor. The rotor carrier includes a hub portion, a first cylindrical portion coupled to the hub portion and defining a first diameter that is less than an inner diameter of the rotor, and a second cylindrical portion extending from the first cylindrical portion and defining a second diameter that is greater than the inner diameter of the rotor. A first clutch is positioned within the rotor carrier and engages an inner surface of the first cylindrical portion of the rotor carrier. A second clutch is positioned within the rotor carrier and engages an inner surface of the second cylindrical portion of the rotor carrier.

Abstract: A variable camshaft timing (VCT) assembly for changing the angular position of concentric camshafts relative to a crankshaft includes a coupling plate having a first plurality of Oldham features configured to engage a first plurality of Oldham receiving features carried by a first VCT device and a second plurality of Oldham features configured to engage a second plurality of Oldham receiving features carried by a second VCT device; the coupling plate is positioned axially between the first VCT device and the second VCT device permitting the first VCT device and the second VCT device to move radially outwardly and inwardly relative to an axis of camshaft rotation.

Abstract: A product may include a bearing housing in which a shaft may be supported by a bearing so that it may rotate. A compressor wheel may be disposed on the shaft. A compressor cover may be connected with the bearing housing, which may form a compressor body and may define a chamber within which the compressor wheel may rotate. A diffuser may extend radially outward from the chamber and may receive gas from the compressor wheel. An inlet may be provided to the compressor body, which may receive a supply of exhaust gas. An EGR distribution cavity may be defined within the compressor body and may extend around the shaft. An EGR inlet channel may extend into the bearing housing from the inlet to the EGR distribution cavity. An EGR passage may extend from the EGR distribution cavity to the diffuser.

Abstract: A driveline component with a shaft, a friction clutch and a centrifugal valve. The shaft has a supply passage and a feed passage that intersects the supply passage. The centrifugal valve has a valve seat, which is formed on the shaft and intersects the feed passage, a valve element and a flyweight that is pivotally coupled to the shaft. The valve element is received in the valve seat and is movable between a first position, in which the valve element is abutted against the valve seat, and a second position in which the valve element is displaced from the valve seat. The flyweight has a weight and a cam and is configured so that radially outward rotation of the weight in response to centrifugal force causes the cam to drive the valve element toward the first position.

Abstract: A hydraulic tensioner can include a valve retainer and valve member within a housing including a cavity, passageway, and boss. The passageway provides fluid communication with the cavity through an end face of the cavity. The boss is disposed about the passageway and extends axially outward from the end face. The valve retainer can include a first plate. The first plate can be fixedly coupled to the housing. The valve member can include a second plate that can be axially between the first plate and the boss. The second plate can extend in a radial direction beyond an outermost edge of the boss. The second plate can move axially between a closed position wherein the second plate is in sealing contact with the boss and an open position wherein the second plate is axially spaced apart from the boss. The valve spring biases the second plate toward the closed position.

Abstract: A friction material presents a friction generating surface and a bonding surface facing opposite the friction generating surface. The friction material includes an organopolysiloxane resin, a plurality of fibers, and a plurality of friction particles. The organopolysiloxane resin includes siloxy units independently represented by the following formula: (R1SiO3/2) and/or (R2SiO2/2); wherein each R1 and R2 is independently selected from a monovalent hydrocarbon group having from 1 to 20 carbon atoms.

Abstract: A multi-flow exhaust gas turbocharger (101) comprising a turbine (105), a turbine wheel, a first flow (1) and a second flow (2), a bypass line (6) for bypassing the turbine wheel, a bypass valve unit (107) for adjusting the size of a bypass exhaust gas flow through the bypass line (6), and comprising a flow connection unit (108) for adjusting an extent of the connection of exhaust gas flows into the flows (1, 2), characterized in that the bypass valve unit (107) and the flow connection unit (108) can be actuated in a mechanically coupled way by means of a coupling unit (109).

Abstract: A system and method of controlling an angular position of a camshaft relative to an angular position of a crankshaft includes detecting rotational movement of an electric motor output shaft controlling a camshaft phaser; detecting rotational movement of the crankshaft; determining the relative difference between the rotational movement of the electric motor output shaft and the rotational movement of the crankshaft; and determining whether the angular position of the camshaft relative to the angular position of the crankshaft is advancing, retarding, or remaining constant.

Abstract: A number of variations may include a combustion engine tailpipe exhaust circuit defining an exhaust stream and a waste heat recovery system constructed and arranged to recover thermal energy from at least one of a tailpipe exhaust circuit, exhaust stream, charge air cooler, exhaust gas recirculation fluid stream, or coolant stream. The waste heat recovery system may include an expander assembly that may include a first pump, an expander, an evaporator, and a condenser. A second pump driven by the waste heat recovery system may be in fluid communication with the tailpipe exhaust circuit and exhaust stream and may be constructed and arranged to reduce exhaust pressure in the tailpipe exhaust circuit and exhaust stream. A third pump may be in fluid communication with an exhaust gas recirculation fluid stream and which is constructed and arranged to pump the exhaust gas recirculation fluid stream within the exhaust gas recirculation system.

Abstract: A non-prevalent order random sprocket for an internal combustion engine comprising a pattern of pitch radii, such that the radial variation of the pitch radii excite tensions at non-prevalent orders in a drive system of the internal combustion engine.

Abstract: Oil sealing unit for a turbocharger used for sealing a passage from a bearing housing to a compressor housing. An end wall serves to delimit an oil expansion chamber in the direction of a compressor wheel. A sealing sleeve is designed for a non-rotating connection with a shaft, which connects the compressor wheel to a turbine wheel. The sealing sleeve is at least partially surrounded by the end wall. An oil guiding means is designed in such a way that an overhang is formed in relation to an oil deflection ring and in a direction radially upward in relation to at least a portion of the oil deflection ring. A sealing gap is formed between the overhang of the oil guiding means and the oil deflection ring.

Abstract: In a turbocharger for receiving exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine and for delivering compressed air to the internal combustion engine, a backplate may include a lubricant stall protrusion, such as a rib, may be placed in recirculation or collection recesses of the backplate to stall recirculating lubricant flow and direct the lubricant into a bearing housing lubricant core and drain to reduce an amount of lubricant proximate piston rings and leaking into a compressor housing of the turbocharger. When an lubricant deflector is used, the lubricant stall protrusion stalls recirculating lubricant that is outboard of the lubricant deflector, and may have an outer protrusion edge closely matching the outboard contour of the lubricant deflector to minimize a flow gap there between.

Abstract: A sealing unit for a turbocharger for sealing a transition from a bearing housing into a compressor housing, and a method for producing a sealing unit of this type. The sealing unit includes a sealing bush which is designed for common rotation with a shaft of a turbocharger, a slide ring, and first and second groove rings. The first and second groove rings are designed for common rotation with the sealing bush and are arranged on the sealing bush. The slide ring is arranged between the first and second groove rings in the axial direction so that radially extending sealing gaps are formed on both sides of the slide ring between the slide ring and the respective groove ring.