Abstract: A mixed flow turbine wheel (1) for a turbocharger includes a hub (6) extending axially between a nose (10) and a partial back wall (9) defining an axis of rotation in the axial direction. The partial back wall (9) extends circumferentially from the hub (6) to an outer peripheral edge (11). A plurality of turbine blades (7) are coupled to the hub (6) and extended beyond the peripheral edge (11). The blades (7) are spaced circumferentially about the hub (6) at equal intervals around the axis of rotation. At least one scallop cut (5) is formed in the peripheral edge (11) at the partial back wall (9) for balancing the turbine wheel (1) about the axis rotation.

Abstract: An exhaust gas turbocharger (10) including a turbine section (14), a compressor section (12), a bearing housing (16) disposed between an fluidly connected to the turbine section (14) and the compressor section (12), and an oil flow means connected to the bearing housing (16) for controlling and metering oil flow to the bearing assembly (42).

Abstract: A transfer case includes a housing, along with an input shaft, a primary output shaft, a secondary output shaft, and a secondary torque transfer mechanism, each disposed at least partially within the housing. The input shaft is configured to couple to the primary output shaft to transfer torque thereto. The secondary torque transfer mechanism includes a rotating member coupled to the secondary output shaft and a locking mechanism. The locking mechanism includes a locking ring, a fork member engaging the locking ring, and a slide shaft coupled to the fork member and configured to slide the locking ring to positively couple the primary output shaft to the rotating member to transfer torque to the secondary output shaft. The housing includes an aperture axially configured to receive an elongated tool configured to be rotated manually external to the housing for engaging and moving the slide shaft to the second position.

Abstract: A drive module with a housing, an electric motor coupled to the housing, a differential assembly, a transmission, and a filter-strainer assembly. The housing has an exterior wall member that defines an internal cavity and a suction tube. The internal cavity at least partly forms a lubricant sump with a sump outlet. The suction tube is spaced apart from and does not intersect the internal cavity such that the suction tube is not in direct fluid communication with the internal cavity. The differential assembly and transmission are received in the internal cavity and the transmission transmits rotary power between the electric motor and the differential assembly. The filter-strainer assembly is coupled to the housing and has a filter-strainer inlet, which is coupled in fluid communication to the sump outlet, and a filter-strainer outlet, which is directly coupled in fluid communication to a suction tube inlet of the suction tube.

Abstract: A linkage mechanism for a valve assembly includes one of a slot and an engagement component operably coupled to at least one drive component and located eccentrically from a rotational axis of the at least one drive component, a link operably coupled to one end of a valve stem of a valve member and being moveable with the valve stem, the link having another one of a slot and an engagement component, and a rotatable lever coupled to at least one housing, the lever including one of a first slot and a first engagement component operably engaged with the one of the slot and the engagement component of the at least one drive component and one of a second slot and a second engagement component operably engaged with the one of the slot and the engagement component of the link, wherein rotation of the at least one drive component causes the lever to rotate to convert a rotational movement of the at least one drive component to a linear movement of the link such that the link, the valve stem, and the valve member are

Abstract: An automatic transmission multi-mode clutch module (10, 100) may include either two concentric (30B, 30A) or two axially (130B, 130A) spaced sets of pawls (30B, 130B, 30A, 130A) nested between a pair of inner (20, 120) and outer races (12, 112). A first set of pawls (30B, 130B) is secured to the outer race (12, 112), and may be selectively released from a normally spring-biased default engagement with the inner race (20, 120) by an actuator cam ring (16, 116) rotatable between two angular limits. A second set of pawls (30A, 130A) is secured to the inner race (20, 120), and is released from a normally spring-biased default engagement with the outer race (12, 112) whenever the inner race (20, 120) reaches a threshold rotational speed, at which centrifugal forces acting on the inner set of pawls (30A, 130A) overcome the default spring bias to disengage the pawls (30A, 130A) from the outer race (12, 112).

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: 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.

Abstract: An electrical axle comprising an electrical motor selectively connected to a differential via a reduction gear and a planetary gear set, the planetary gear set having one input and two outputs, the electrical axle further comprises a gear shift mechanism configured to selectively connect a differential housing to one of the outputs.

Abstract: A heat shield for a turbocharger has a disc-like configuration. The heat shield includes an outer radial portion, an outer wall, a connecting wall, and an inner wall. The outer radial portion is disposed circumferentially around an axis of the heat shield. The outer wall extends from the outer radial portion in a first axial direction. The connecting wall extends radially inward substantially perpendicularly from the outer wall. The inner wall extends substantially perpendicularly from the connecting wall in a second axial direction opposite the first axial direction.

Abstract: A turbocharger includes a compressor wheel, a shaft, a bearing housing, and a floating ring. The shaft is coupled to the compressor wheel and extends through the bearing housing. The bearing housing includes an inner housing surface extending circumferentially around the shaft. The floating ring rotatably supports the shaft in the bearing housing and rotates relative to the bearing housing and the shaft. The floating ring includes an outer bearing surface that extends circumferentially around the shaft and that faces the inner peripheral housing surface. The inner housing surface is formed of a rigid material and has an inner housing cross-sectional shape that in a first axially outer region of the inner housing surface is non-circular perpendicular to the axis, decreases in area moving axially toward a first axial end, and forms a first outer fluid film interface with the outer bearing surface of the floating ring.

Abstract: A printed circuit board (PCB), including electrical components for controlling electrically-actuated turbochargers, having a switching device configured to be electrically connected to an electrical power source and electrically connected to an electric motor of an electrically-actuated turbocharger, wherein the switching device is physically attached to a side of the PCB within a cavity formed in the side of the PCB such that at least a portion of the switching device is below the side of the PCB.

Abstract: An inlet check valve for controlling fluid from a supply into a variable cam timing phaser includes a double flapper check valve assembly with an open position and a closed position, which includes a housing having a body forming at least two stoppers, a flapper valve comprising at least two flexible flaps received within the housing and aligned with the at least two stoppers, and a valve seat received within the housing, the valve seat defining openings aligned with the at least two flexible flaps, axially opposite the two stoppers. In another embodiment, the stoppers are on a stopper piece separate from the housing.

Abstract: A multi-mode clutch system (10) may include a cam slider (66) operatively associated with an actuator (82). A first cam profile (70) and a second cam profile may both be operatively associated with the cam slider (66). A first pawl (26) may be operatively associated with the first cam profile (70) and a second pawl may be operatively associated with the second cam profile (74) wherein the first cam profile (70) selectively acts on the first pawl (26), the second cam profile (74) selectively acts on the second pawl (30), and the multi-mode clutch system (10) is configured to allow multiple modes of operation between the first and second pawls (26, 30) and an inner race (14) according to different actuator (82) positions.

Abstract: A method of assembling an electrified turbocharger comprising assembling a rotor assembly onto a shaft; balancing the shaft and rotor assembly; attaching at least one bearing onto the shaft adjacent the rotor assembly; inserting a stator assembly into a first housing component; axially inserting the shaft, the rotor assembly, and the at least one bearing into the first housing component; attaching a second housing component to the first housing component; attaching a compressor wheel to a first end of the shaft; and attaching a turbine wheel to a second end of the shaft and balancing the electrified turbocharger.

Abstract: The problem to be solved by the present invention lies in making it possible to reduce costs and to reduce the size of an oil pump, without impeding the degree of freedom in chain layout. An oil jet 1 is constructed in order to supply lubricating oil to a tension-side span of a chain C while also causing a tensioning force to act on a slack-side span of the chain C. The oil jet arm 1 is provided with a pivoting-side part 2A, and a tip-end side part 2B which is provided in such a way as to be pivotable about the pivoting-side part 2A and is acted on by a pressing force from a piston 41 of a hydraulic tensioner 4, and an oil ejection hole 22a for ejecting to the outside oil supplied from an oil discharge hole 41a in the piston 41 is formed in the tip-end side part 2B. Oil ejected from the oil ejection hole 22a is supplied to a portion E on the meshing start side with a sprocket 100 on the tension-side span of the chain C.

Abstract: A number of variations may include a motor/energy generator and energy storage device combination.

Abstract: A number of variations may include a torsional vibration damper having an input side, having an output side and having an energy store for the rotationally elastic coupling of the input and output sides in a circumferential direction, wherein, on the input or output side, there is arranged a mass part that is rotatable relative to the input or output side counter to the restoring force of a restoring apparatus.

Abstract: A product may include a rotating sheave that may have a first sheave half and a second sheave half. A distance between the first and second sheave halves may be variable. A screw actuator may have a screw that may engage the first sheave half. A motor may be connected with the screw and may be operable to move the first sheave half to vary the distance through the screw.

Abstract: A system for use in an automatic transmission includes a 3-way solenoid-actuated valve includes a valve body having an inlet port and a first outlet port and a second outlet port, a valve disposed within the valve body and slidably controllable to proportion flow between the first outlet port and the second outlet port, and a spring disposed in the valve body to bias the valve for flow toward the second outlet port. The system also includes at least one pump providing fluid to the inlet port, a first fluid circuit connected to the first outlet port providing fluid to a first subsystem of the automatic transmission, and a second fluid circuit connected to the second outlet port providing fluid to a second subsystem of the automatic transmission.