Abstract: A variable displacement exhaust turbocharger according to at least one embodiment comprises: a plurality of nozzle vanes; an annular drive ring; and a lever plate fitted at one end in a groove portion disposed in the drive ring via a connecting pin portion and connected at another end to each nozzle vane. The value of dimensionless slippage S between the groove portion and the connecting pin portion is equal to or less than 0.0016. The dimensionless slippage S is represented by a certain equation.

Abstract: A nozzle device according to some embodiments includes an annular nozzle plate, an annular nozzle mount defining a nozzle flow passage between the nozzle mount and one surface of the nozzle plate, at least one nozzle support coupling the nozzle plate and the nozzle mount, and fixed to at least the nozzle plate by caulking, and at least one nozzle vane supported between the nozzle plate and the nozzle mount. The nozzle plate has a through hole into which an end portion of the at least one nozzle support is inserted.

Abstract: An ECU 10 includes a valve control unit 101 for throttling a valve opening of at least one of an intake throttle valve or an exhaust throttle valve so that an upstream temperature of a DOC reaches a predetermined temperature; and a deposition condition determination unit 105 for determining whether a deposition condition that a SOF deposition amount on the DOC exceeds a predetermined deposition amount is satisfied. The valve control unit 101 includes a throttle amount decrease control execution unit 102 for executing throttle amount decrease control to decrease a throttle amount of the valve opening when the deposition condition is satisfied to be smaller than when the deposition condition is not satisfied.

Abstract: A bearing device according to an embodiment is a bearing device for rotatably supporting a rotational shaft, the device including at least one rolling bearing which includes an inner race fixed to the rotational shaft, a rolling element, and an outer race for rotatably holding the rolling element with the inner race, and a casing for housing the rolling bearing, the casing including a plurality of first oil supply holes formed at intervals in a circumferential direction for supplying lubricant oil to a first gap between the rolling bearing and an inner circumferential surface of the casing. Each of the plurality of first oil supply holes satisfies: ?·d1·?1<?·d12/4 ??(a) , where d1 is a diameter of an outlet opening of the first oil supply hole, and ?1 is a space of the first gap.

Abstract: A precombustion chamber engine comprises: a cylinder head defining a main combustion chamber together with a cylinder liner and a piston top surface; a precombustion chamber cap mounted on the cylinder head by inserting a distal end portion of the precombustion chamber cap into an insertion hole formed in the cylinder head; a precombustion chamber holder disposed inside the cylinder head; and a precombustion chamber cap holding member fixed to the precombustion chamber holder and configured to suspend and support the precombustion chamber cap. The precombustion chamber cap includes a reduced diameter portion with a diameter decreasing from a proximal end portion of the precombustion chamber cap to an intermediate portion that has a smaller diameter than the proximal end portion.

Abstract: A bearing condition monitoring device is a bearing condition monitoring device for monitoring a condition of a thrust bearing for holding a rotational shaft in a thrust direction. The bearing condition monitoring device includes a first temperature sensor for measuring a temperature of the thrust bearing, and an arithmetic device for counting a frequency at which an evaluation index of a thrust load on the basis of a measurement value by the first temperature sensor exceeds an allowable value, and for outputting an abnormality in the condition of the thrust bearing if the counted frequency exceeds a threshold. The arithmetic device may count, as the frequency, only a case where a state in which the thrust load exceeds an upper limit load continues for not less than a predetermined time.

Abstract: A combined electric power generations' supply system includes an AC power generator that supplies power by off grid independent operation, a DC power supply device, an inverter that converts DC power output by the DC power supply device into AC power. The rotation calculation unit calculates a value relating to a rotation of a rotor when driving the virtual power generator according to an active power command based on a rotor model calculates a value relating to the rotation of the rotor of the virtual power generator and the active power command. The output determination unit determines values relating to an active power and a reactive power to be output to the inverter based on the calculated value relating to the rotation. The modulation control unit performs control of a pulse width modulation of the inverter based on the determined value relating to the active power and reactive power.

Abstract: A scroll shape of a compressor forms into a spiral shape a flow path of fluid discharged from a diffuser provided on a downstream side of the compressor in a fluid flow direction. The scroll shape has a scroll outer diameter that is not constant in a circumferential direction. An increase degree of a ratio A/R is set to be increased in a range from a winding start position to a winding end position of a scroll portion where A is a passage cross-sectional area of the scroll portion and R is a radius from a center of the compressor to a center of a passage cross section of the scroll portion.

Abstract: A radial inflow turbine includes a scroll flow passage, a turbine wheel disposed radially inward of the scroll flow passage, a plurality of variable nozzle vanes disposed on a flow passage extending from the scroll flow passage toward the turbine wheel, at a radial position between the scroll flow passage and the turbine wheel, a nozzle mount rotatably supporting each of the plurality of variable nozzle vanes, a nozzle plate arranged to face the nozzle mount and forming the flow passage with the nozzle mount, and a swirl generating member disposed, radially outward of the plurality of variable nozzle vanes, on the nozzle plate in a height range which is smaller than that of a vane height of each of the plurality of variable nozzle vanes. A position of an end part of the swirl generating member on a side of the nozzle mount is farther away from the nozzle mount than a position of an end part of each of the plurality of variable nozzle vanes on the side of the nozzle mount in an axial direction.

Abstract: A centrifugal compressor comprises: an impeller; an inlet pipe portion forming an intake passage to introduce air to the impeller; and a throttle mechanism capable of reducing a flow passage area of the intake passage upstream of the impeller. The throttle mechanism includes an annular portion configured to move between a first position and a second position upstream of the first position in an axial direction of the impeller. In a cross-section along a rotational axis of the impeller, an outer peripheral surface of the annular portion is formed to smoothly connect a leading edge and a trailing edge of the annular portion.

Abstract: A nozzle vane for a variable geometry turbocharger has an airfoil including a leading edge, a trailing edge, a pressure surface, and a suction surface at least in a center position in a blade height direction. The airfoil satisfies 0?Wmax/L<0.03, where Wmax is a maximum value of a distance from a line segment connecting the trailing edge and a fixed point on the pressure surface at a 40% chord position from the trailing edge toward the leading edge to a given point on the pressure surface between the trailing edge and the fixed point, and L is a length of the line segment.

Abstract: A compressor wheel device comprises a compressor wheel attached to a rotary shaft and a thrust collar attached to the rotary shaft at a back surface of the compressor wheel. The compressor wheel includes: a wheel body part with a hub and at least one blade provided on an outer peripheral surface of the hub; and a sleeve part having a cylindrical shape projecting along an axis direction from a back surface of the hub and having an outer peripheral surface on which a sealing groove extending along a peripheral direction is formed. The thrust collar has a circular plate-like shape including: one surface including an abutting surface abutting on an end surface of the sleeve part and extending along a radial direction; and the other surface including a slidably-contacting surface slidably contacting a thrust bearing supporting the rotary shaft in a thrust direction and extending along the radial direction.

Abstract: A nozzle vane of a variable geometry turbocharger comprises: a nozzle vane body rotatably disposed in an exhaust gas passage defined between a shroud surface and a hub surface; and a flange portion provided on at least one of a shroud-side end surface or a hub-side end surface of the nozzle vane body, and formed around a center of rotation of the nozzle vane body.

Abstract: A centrifugal compressor includes: an impeller; an inlet pipe portion forming an intake passage to introduce air to the impeller; and a throttle mechanism capable of reducing a flow passage area of the intake passage upstream of the impeller. The throttle mechanism includes an annular portion configured to move between a first position and a second position upstream of the first position in an axial direction of the impeller, and a strut supporting the annular portion. The strut extends toward at least one of an outer side in a radial direction of the impeller or a downstream side in the axial direction of the impeller with an increase in distance from the annular portion.

Abstract: A floating bush bearing configured to support a rotational shaft rotatably includes: a floating bush body part formed to have a cylindrical shape having an insertion hole through which the rotational shaft is inserted. The floating bush body part includes: an inner peripheral surface; an outer peripheral surface having a greater width dimension than the inner peripheral surface in an axial direction of the floating bush body part; and an axial end surface which connects an end of the inner peripheral surface and an end of the outer peripheral surface, the axial end surface including a vertical surface extending along a direction orthogonal to the axial direction from the end of the outer peripheral surface toward a radially inner side and an oblique surface extending from a radially inner end of the vertical surface toward the end of the inner peripheral surface.

Abstract: A centrifugal compressor includes: a housing; an impeller rotatably disposed within the housing; a rotational shaft connected to the impeller; and a bearing member supporting the rotational shaft in the housing. An oil flow passage through which oil flows is formed in the housing. The oil flow passage includes a lubricating oil passage through which the oil flows as lubricating oil to be supplied to the bearing member, and a cooling oil passage through which the oil flows as cooling oil for heat exchange with a fluid compressed by the impeller. The cooling oil passage is configured so that the oil flows into the cooling oil passage as the cooling oil without passing through the bearing member.

Abstract: A surge suppression device for suppressing surge in an exhaust turbine-type turbocharger includes: a high-pressure tank configured to accumulate high-pressure gas with a higher pressure than atmospheric pressure; a high-pressure gas injection line connecting the high-pressure tank and an upstream intake passage on an upstream side of a compressor of the turbocharger; an on-off valve configured to open and close the high-pressure gas injection line; and a control device configured to control the on-off valve on the basis of a relationship between a pressure ratio of the compressor of the turbocharger and an intake flow rate.

Abstract: A turbine wheel (12) is provided with: a disc (22) provided so as to be capable of rotating about a center axis (C); and a plurality of blades (23) provided to a disc surface (22f) at intervals in a circumferential direction, the blades (23) causing a gas guided in from radially outward leading edges (23f) to be expelled from trailing edges (23r) disposed on one side of each of the blades along the direction of the center axis (C). In each of the blades (23), in an area on one side along the direction of the center axis (C) including the trailing edge (23r), there is provided a concave surface (27) in which a positive-pressure surface (23p) on the rear side in a rotational direction (R) is recessed forward in the rotational direction (R), causing the gas to be dispersed entirely in the radial direction of the blade (23).

Abstract: A centrifugal compressor includes an impeller rotatably disposed and having a plurality of first blades and a shroud cover disposed on a leading edge side of the first blades partially in a rotational axis direction of the impeller and connecting the first blades circumferentially adjacent to each other. The shroud cover is shaped such that a position of at least one of an upstream edge or a downstream edge of the shroud cover in the rotational axis direction changes along a circumferential direction of the shroud cover.

Abstract: A turbocharger includes a rolling bearing including at least one rolling element for rotatably supporting a rotational shaft, a bearing support cylinder located on a radially outer side relative to the rolling bearing, for supporting the rolling bearing, and a housing located on the radially outer side relative to the bearing support cylinder, for covering a circumference of the bearing support cylinder. Between an outer circumferential surface of the bearing support cylinder and an inner circumferential surface of the housing, a gap for forming an oil film by inflow of lubricant oil is provided. At least one of the outer circumferential surface of the bearing support cylinder and the inner circumferential surface of the housing includes an oil film holding portion for suppressing outflow of the lubricant oil from the gap.