Abstract: A turbocharger includes a turbine housing. The turbine housing includes a turbine inlet wall defining an inlet passage, an exducer shroud wall defining an exducer interior, a turbine outlet wall defining an outlet passage, a wastegate port wall defining a wastegate channel, and a bushing wall coupled to the wastegate port wall and defining a bushing boss extending along a bushing axis, and a valve seat disposed about the wastegate channel. The turbocharger also includes a wastegate assembly. The wastegate assembly includes a valve element engageable with the valve seat. The wastegate port wall is disposed outside of the exducer interior such that the wastegate port wall and the bushing wall are configured to be thermally decoupled from the turbine inlet wall and such that relative displacement between the valve seat and the bushing axis is reduced during operation of the turbocharger.

Abstract: A transfer case is disclosed that includes an input shaft, a primary output shaft, a secondary output shaft, a gear reduction mechanism that selectively couples the input shaft to the primary output shaft in a high range and a low range, a secondary torque transfer mechanism that operates to selectively couple the primary output shaft to the secondary output shaft to engage a four-wheel drive mode, and an actuation mechanism that operates the gear reduction mechanism and the secondary torque transfer mechanism. The actuation mechanism includes a gear plate with an integral target pattern that is rotatable through a plurality of positions corresponding to states of the gear reduction mechanism and the secondary torque transfer, as well as a sensor that is adapted and positioned to read the target pattern to in each of the positions of the gear plate.

Abstract: A stator assembly (50) includes a stator core (52) defining an outside diameter (OD) and an inside diameter (ID) with longitudinally extending slots (58) formed between the inside diameter and the outside diameter. The stator core (52) defines a core height extending longitudinally from a first end (53) to a second end (55) of the stator core (52). Distributed windings (60) are retained by the stator core (52) and include an in-slot portion (66) positioned in the slots of the stator core (52), a first end turn portion (62) adjacent to the first end (53) of the stator core, and a second end turn portion (64) adjacent to a second end (55) of the stator core. The first end turn portion (62) defines a first end turn height (h1) extending from the first end (53) of the stator core to a vertex (78) of the first end turn portion (62). A ratio of the first end turn height (h1) to the outside diameter (OD) of the stator core is less than or equal to 0.07.

Abstract: In an all-wheel drive (AWD) vehicle, torque carrying connections are provided between the powertrain and all four wheels. A multimode clutch module or clutches are provided to selectively disconnect two of the wheels from the powertrain during operating conditions where disconnection improves the performance and efficiency of the AWD vehicle. The multimode clutch module may be installed at various locations of the AWD vehicle, such as within a front or rear differential, between a half axle and a differential or between a half axle and a corresponding wheel, or within a transfer case or power transfer unit.

Abstract: A turbocharger includes a bearing housing containing a motor within an interior portion of the bearing housing. A liquid-cooled power module is secured to an exterior portion of a bearing housing. The power module contains electrical components that power and control speed of the motor, and has an enclosure that includes sealed first and second volumes separated by a common wall. The first volume is a liquid-cooled compartment for removing heat generated from the electrical components, and the second volume is a liquid-free compartment containing the electrical power components. The electrical power components are fixed to the common wall, which is formed of a heat conductive material, and which may include fins extending into the first volume to optimize heat transfer from the common wall into the liquid-cooled compartment. Finally, the liquid-cooled power module communicates with the motor directly through the bearing housing.

Abstract: The invention relates to a turbine comprising a turbine housing defining a volute having a substantially annular outlet opening, a turbine wheel, and an adjusting ring, rotatable about the turbine axis, which is arranged in the turbine housing radially between the volute and the turbine wheel, wherein the adjusting ring comprises a flow channel between a radially outer first peripheral opening and a radially inner second peripheral opening, and wherein the outlet opening is fluidically coupled to the turbine wheel by the flow channel. The outlet opening and the first peripheral opening have a path, variable in the axial direction, so that during a rotation of the adjusting ring, the outlet opening and the first peripheral opening are adjusted relative to each other in such a way that an overflow cross section between the outlet opening and the first peripheral opening is variably changeable.

Abstract: A turbine arrangement for an exhaust gas turbocharger includes a turbine housing, a turbine wheel that is arranged in the turbine housing and has an axis of rotation, and a variable turbine geometry arrangement (VTG arrangement). The VTG arrangement includes a bearing ring, a disc, multiple vanes rotatably mounted in the bearing ring, and a contour sleeve that is coupled with the disc. The turbine housing comprises an axial stop, against which the contour sleeve stops in order to secure the VTG arrangement in an axial direction within the turbine housing.

Abstract: A vehicle driveline component with a housing, a ring gear of a transmission, and a plurality of spring sets. The housing defines a bore and a plurality of grooves that are spaced circumferentially about the bore. The ring gear includes an internally-toothed ring gear body and a plurality of mounting teeth that project radially from the ring gear body. The first mounting teeth are received into the grooves in the housing. Each of the spring sets has a first spring, which is disposed between a first side of an associated one of the mounting teeth and a first wall of an associated one of the grooves into which the associated one of the mounting teeth is received, and a second spring that is disposed between a second side of the associated one of the mounting teeth and a second wall of the associated one of the grooves.

Abstract: A transfer case with an actuator for operating a two-speed transmission (i.e., range mechanism) and a clutch (i.e., mode mechanism). The actuator employs a motor-driven cam structure that coordinates the movement of a first fork, which is associated with the range mechanism, and a second fork that is associated with the mode mechanism. A resilient coupling is employed to provide compliance between the motor and the cam structure in the event that tooth-on-tooth contact inhibits the range mechanism from changing from a high-range mode and a low range mode or tooth-on-tooth contact inhibits the mode mechanism from changing between a two-wheel drive mode and a four-wheel drive mode. A sensor target and sensor are employed to identify the rotational positioning of the cam structure placement, which is indicative of the modes in which the transmission and the clutch are operating.

Abstract: A compressor with a compressor housing in which a compressor wheel is arranged. The compressor additionally includes a cartridge which is arranged in the compressor housing in the area of a compressor inlet. The cartridge is designed to variably change the cross section of the compressor inlet.

Abstract: A power transmitting component having a first shaft and a pump. The first shaft has a longitudinal bore, a pump mount and a feed conduit. The pump mount has a circumferentially extending surface, a drive portion and a channel that extends circumferentially about the first shaft. The channel is disposed along a longitudinal axis of the first shaft between the drive portion and the circumferentially extending surface. The feed conduit intersects and fluidly couples the longitudinal bore and the channel. The pump has a pump housing, a first rotor and a pump outlet. The pump housing is mounted about the circumferentially extending surface and is disposed circumferentially about the channel. The first rotor is coupled to the drive portion for rotation therewith. The pump outlet is coupled in fluid communication with the channel.

Abstract: A bearing comprising an axial channel formed along a longitudinal axis of the bearing having an inner radius comprising an inner surface and an outer radius comprising an outer surface and at least one dam region formed on the inner surface of the inner radius of the channel wherein the dam region comprises a modified crescent shape between 90 and 180 degrees about the longitudinal axis of the channel.

Abstract: A friction plate includes a core plate defining a bore. The core plate includes an interior core surface defining the bore, an exterior core surface radially spaced from the interior core surface, a first clutch face extending between the interior core surface and the exterior core surface and facing a first direction, and a second clutch face extending between the interior core surface and the exterior core surface and facing a second direction opposite the first direction. The friction plate also includes a friction material disposed on at least one of the first and second clutch faces. The core plate also includes a fluid directing portion. A first plate thickness is defined between the first and second clutch faces. A second plate thickness is defined at the fluid directing portion. The second thickness is greater than the first thickness.

Abstract: A chain guide and tensioning apparatus is disclosed that is configured for engagement (contact) with a driven chain (e.g., in an automotive engine). The chain guide and tensioning apparatus includes a guide body and a guide face overlying the guide body. The guide face defines an inner surface and an opposite outer surface that is configured to guide and tension the driven chain. The guide face includes a plurality of spacers that extend therefrom into engagement (contact) with the guide body so as to define at least one channel that is configured to facilitate air and/or lubricant circulation between the guide body and the guide face to reduce heat and friction generated by engagement of the driven chain with the guide face.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an actuation device for a compressor inlet adjustment mechanism. The actuation device comprises a housing part and a lever assembly. The lever assembly comprises a bearing section, an input section and an output section. The output section is configured to be coupled to an adjustment ring of the adjustment mechanism on a first side of the housing part. The input section can be coupled to an actuator rod on a second side of the housing part. The lever assembly is rotatably mounted in the housing part via the bearing section on the compressor inlet side here.

Abstract: A turbocharger includes a shaft, a compressor wheel, and a seal assembly. The seal assembly includes a carbon ring having a carbon surface having a carbon ring inner diameter and a carbon ring outer diameter. The seal assembly also includes a mating ring having a mating surface facing the carbon surface of the carbon ring. The mating surface has a land portion configured to contact the carbon surface between a first mating diameter radially aligned with the carbon ring inner diameter and a second mating diameter radially aligned with the carbon ring outer diameter. The land portion has a land area between the first and second mating diameters. The mating surface defines a plurality of grooved portions. The plurality of grooved portions have a grooved area between the first and second mating diameters. A ratio of the land area to the grooved area is between 1.3 and 2.9.

Abstract: A tensioner which adjusts the mean tensioner force to keep the chain tension as low as possible without sacrificing chain control, significantly improving drive efficiency as the chain wears and is subject to low dynamic loads.

Abstract: A continuously variable friction drive is used to phase a cam plate attached to the camshaft relative to a sprocket plate driven by the crankshaft. Discs are received within the cavity between the sprocket and cam plate. The discs are free to rotate about an axis of rotation, and is fixed relative to the cam and the sprocket, so that when the sprocket plate rotates, the cam plate is rotated by the discs in the opposite direction. The axis of rotation of the discs can be tilted by an actuator, so that the discs themselves contact the plates at different distances from their axes of rotation, which changes the speed of rotation of one plate relative to the other. When the speed of rotation of the crank and cam differ, the phase angle between the two shafts is changed.

Abstract: A method for commissioning a synchronous or asynchronous electric motor having a stator and a rotor in which electrical power is applied to the motor when the rotor is stationary. The electric power is applied in two stages. The first stage utilizes a DC power that ramps in voltage over the duration of the first test to produce a current response that is employed to determine at least a first motor parameter. The second stage uses relatively high frequency AC power to generate one or more current responses that are employed to determine second and third motor parameters. A related electric motor drive system is also provided.

Abstract: A turbine with variable turbine geometry for an internal combustion engine. The turbine includes a bearing housing, a turbine housing, and a cartridge which has a blade bearing ring for mounting a plurality of adjustable blades. The cartridge is fixed on the bearing housing via at least three bolts.