Abstract: An entryway system includes a divided volute turbocharger having variable turbine geometry (VTG). The turbocharger includes a turbine housing, first and second volutes separated by a wall having a first and second tongue, and a turbine housing outlet. The system also includes a turbine wheel disposed in the turbine housing and a vane ring disposed in the turbine housing between the turbine wheel and the volutes. The system includes design modifications of one or more of the VTG components and/or locations of such components to manipulate the aerodynamic forces and/or subsequent mechanical loads in the VTG mechanism of the entryway system to mitigate VTG component wear during normal usage.

Abstract: An assembly for power transmission between an output of a drive engine and an input of a transmission. The assembly includes a torque converter and a P2 module that are axially engage and retained for flexibility in assembling of the assembly. The P2 module including a clutch and an electric motor.

Abstract: A compressor wheel arrangement for an electrically powered turbocharger, which can be connected with a rotor shaft of the turbocharger, having a compressor wheel made of a first metallic material, a shaft made of a second metallic material, which is tightly connected with the compressor wheel, at least one permanent magnet, which is non-rotatably arranged on the section of the shaft, in a ring-shaped area around a section of the shaft that extends behind the compressor wheel, between a casing and the shaft.

Abstract: A system for a direct current (DC)-DC converter includes a transformer, a bridge driver connected to a primary side of the transformer, and a bridge rectifier connected to a secondary side of the transformer, wherein one or more switches in the bridge driver are operable to configure the bridge driver into each of a half-bridge driver configuration and a full-bridge driver configuration, and to transition between the half-bridge driver configuration and the full-bridge driver configuration while the DC-DC converter is outputting power.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a parking lock for the drive train of a motor vehicle, comprising a pivotable locking lever and a locking toothing, wherein the locking lever can be pivoted from a release position, in which the locking toothing is rotatable relative to the locking lever, into a locking position, in which the locking lever engages with the locking toothing and thus fixes the locking toothing. The locking toothing is provided on a multiple disk carrier of a multiple disk clutch. In addition, the present invention relates to a drive train having such a parking lock.

Abstract: A turbocharger actuator arrangement for a turbocharger includes a movable actuator operating lever, a control rod, and a wave spring. More specifically, the control rod is couplable to a setting element of the turbocharger and is connected to the actuator operating lever by means of a bolt such that the control rod is arranged to be rotatable relative to the actuator operating lever. The bolt extends from the actuator operating lever through an opening in an end region of the control rod and through the wave spring. As such, the control rod and the wave spring are arranged between the actuator operating lever and a bolt securing means, which is arranged at an end region of the bolt that is averted from the actuator operating lever.

Abstract: A solenoid assembly includes a solenoid adapted to be coupled to a solenoid connecting member extending from a support member. The solenoid assembly also includes a retaining bracket having a body portion and a securing portion. The body portion is adapted to be removably coupled to the support member. The securing portion is removably coupled to the solenoid. The retaining bracket is moveable between an unsecured position, and a secured position. The securing portion of the retaining bracket provides a spring force to the solenoid when the retaining bracket is in the secured position such that the solenoid is biased toward the solenoid connecting member to secure the solenoid between the solenoid connecting member and the securing portion of said retaining bracket.

Abstract: Method of controlling a multi-level inverter having inputs connected to a gate drive unit controlling the inverter and an output connected to a load, the multi-level inverter capable of generating a PWM voltage signal having three or more modulation levels, the inverter powered by a voltage supply and comprising at least one neutral point (NP), the method comprising operating the multi-level inverter in a standard modulation pattern having three or more modulation levels when one or more parameters representative of neutral point stability each have a value within a first range indicative of a high neutral point stability, and operating the multi-level inverter with a two-level modulation pattern when said one or more parameters representative of neutral point stability each have a value within a second range indicative of a low neutral point stability, the first range separated from the second range by a threshold value.

Abstract: A bearing housing assembly includes a bearing housing and a bearing assembly. The housing extends along an axis and has a cross-bore surface defining a cross-bore to receive lubricant and a feed groove surface defining a feed groove. The feed groove surface has a constant radial portion extending circumferentially about a majority of the axis with a first groove radius that is constant and an expanded radial portion extending from the constant radial portion circumferentially about the axis with a second groove radius larger than the first groove radius. The bearing housing also has an interior surface having an interior radius smaller than the first groove radius and defining an interior. The bearing assembly is disposed in the interior and includes an outer race having a receiving groove surface defining a receiving groove, an inner race, and a rolling element disposed between the outer race and the inner race.

Abstract: A pawl freewheel with a first race, a second race and pawls between the first and second race, which comprise at least one first pawl, which can be pivoted between a locked position in which the first race is rotationally drivingly coupled in a first direction of rotation relative to the second race via the first pawl to the second race and an open position, in which the first race is rotatable in the first direction of rotation relative to the second race wherein an actuating device is provided with an actuating pin which interacts with the first pawl which can be displaced from a first actuating position in which the first pawl is pivoted into the locked position, in the axial direction relative to the first pawl into a second actuating position, in which the first pawl is pivoted into the open position.

Abstract: There is described a method of controlling an inverter supplying power to a permanent magnet AC, PMAC, motor having a plurality of phase windings, The method comprises: selecting a first phase winding of the PMAC motor; electrically connecting the first phase winding to a first DC terminal of a DC link circuit at a first time, and maintaining the connection between the first phase winding and the first DC terminal: determining a flux difference between the first phase winding and a second phase winding of the PMAC motor; selecting a second time to electrically connect the second phase winding to the first DC terminal; electrically connecting the second phase winding to the first DC terminal at the second time; and maintaining the connection between the second phase winding and the first DC terminal. The second time is selected based on the determined flux difference.

Abstract: A rotary piston compressor (1) for a system for temperature conditioning comprises a rotor (19) mounted in a housing (21), wherein the rotary piston compressor (1) is designed in such a way that the rotor (19) rotates in a first direction in a first operating state and rotates in a second direction opposite to the first direction in a second operating state, and wherein, in the first operating state, a first compressor connection (3) is designed to supply a heat transfer medium (17), and a second compressor connection (5) is designed to discharge the compressed heat transfer medium (17), and wherein, in the second operating state, the second compressor connection (5) is designed to supply the heat transfer medium (17), and the first compressor connection (3) is designed to discharge the compressed heat transfer medium (17).

Abstract: A variable turbine geometry assembly for controlling flow of exhaust gas to a turbine wheel of a turbocharger includes an adjustment ring extending about an axis and rotatable about the axis, at least one vane lever coupled to the adjustment ring, and at least one vane coupled to the at least one vane lever. The at least one vane is moveable with respect to the adjustment ring when the adjustment ring rotates about the axis. The variable turbine geometry assembly further includes a wave spring operably in contact with at least one of the at least one vane lever and the adjustment ring. The wave spring is configured to bias one of the at least one vane lever and the adjustment ring toward the other of the at least one vane lever and the adjustment ring.

Abstract: A system for a direct current (DC) to DC converter, the system comprising one or more transformers, a bridge driver connected to a primary side of the one or more transformers, a first bridge rectifier connected to a secondary side of the one or more transformers, a second bridge rectifier connected to a secondary side of the one or more transformers, and one or more secondary configuration switches operable to configure the first bridge rectifier and the second bridge rectifier into each of a single rectifier configuration, a parallel rectifier configuration, and a series rectifier configuration.

Abstract: A system for a direct current (DC) to DC converter, the system comprising one or more transformers, a first bridge driver connected to a primary side of the one or more transformers, a second bridge driver connected to a primary side of the one or more transformers, one or more primary configuration switches operable to configure the first bridge driver and the second bridge driver into each of a single driver configuration, a parallel driver configuration, and a series driver configuration, a first bridge rectifier connected to a secondary side of the one or more transformers, a second bridge rectifier connected to the secondary side of the one or more transformers, and one or more secondary configuration switches operable to configure the first bridge rectifier and the second bridge rectifier into each of a single rectifier configuration, a parallel rectifier configuration, and a series rectifier configuration.

Abstract: A hydraulic actuating device for a coupling device having an actuating piston, a piston chamber assigned to the actuating piston and a supply chamber which is arranged further inwards in the radial direction than the piston chamber and via which a hydraulic fluid can be supplied to the piston chamber, wherein the supply chamber is delimited in a first axial direction by a first housing part and in a second axial direction opposite to the first axial direction by a second housing part, and the first housing part is fastened to a hub. The first housing part is fastened to the hub by clamping the second housing part in the axial direction between the first housing part and the hub. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a coupling device having such an actuating device as well as a method for manufacturing such an actuating device.

Abstract: A waste gate component for a turbo charger made of a ferritic steel including C, Cr, Ni, Nb, V, Mn, and optionally Si, and Ti as main alloying elements.

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 turbine housing for an exhaust turbocharger is configured for receiving a turbine wheel rotatable about an axis. The housing includes an exhaust gas inlet, an exhaust gas outlet pointing in an outlet direction, and a single-flow, spiral exhaust gas routing. The routing has a volute and a volute outlet gap configured so that exhaust gas flows from the volute to the wheel. The routing is fluidically connected to the inlet and is defined by an internal wall of the housing. The volute has a portion which encircles the axis and has a convexity of the internal wall. The convexity, counter to the outlet direction, extends beyond the volute outlet gap. Further, sectional faces, through which the axis runs, each have a volute contour with a straight linear portion. The linear portion, conjointly with the axis, defines an angle facing the outlet that is less than or equal to 90°.

Abstract: A temperature sensor is described having a measuring resistor, a printed circuit board onto which the measuring resistor is soldered, a cover plate which is fastened onto the printed circuit board, the cover plate having a recess in which the measuring resistor sits.