Patents Examined by Edward Bushard
  • Patent number: 11572823
    Abstract: A variable capacity turbocharger includes a variable nozzle unit having a shroud-side ring in which a first bearing hole is provided, a hub-side ring in which a second bearing hole is provided, a nozzle flow path formed between the shroud-side ring and the hub-side ring, and a nozzle vane disposed in the nozzle flow path and supported by both the first bearing hole and the second bearing hole. A turbine housing having a scroll flow path is connected to the nozzle flow path, in which the first bearing hole penetrates the shroud-side ring and communicates with the scroll flow path through a gap between the shroud-side ring and the turbine housing. Additionally, an opening of the first bearing hole on the gap side is smaller than an opening of the first bearing hole on the nozzle flow path side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Inventors: Katsunori Hayashi, Yuji Kobayashi, Takafumi Ueda, Kazuhiro Onitsuka, Fumihiko Fukuhara
  • Patent number: 11560830
    Abstract: A supercharging device is configured to increase an amount of intake air of an engine of a vehicle, where the supercharging device includes a chamber formed to be open in an ejecting direction of a compressor outside an ejecting portion of a compressor housing of the compressor, and an air adding device configured to supply air not compressed by the compressor to the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventor: Il Suk Yang
  • Patent number: 11555442
    Abstract: A fluid-cooled manifold is configured to cool exhaust from an engine. The fluid-cooled manifold includes a plurality of exhaust runners. Each of the exhaust runners includes a runner body having an inlet end and an outlet end, an exhaust conduit extending through the runner body, and a coolant passage extending through the runner body. The fluid-cooled manifold also includes an exhaust collection manifold including a plurality of inlets. Each inlet of the exhaust collection manifold is coupled to the exhaust outlet opening of a respective one of the exhaust runners. The fluid-cooled manifold also includes a coolant feed pipe and a coolant exit pipe. The coolant feed pipe includes a plurality of outlets coupled to the coolant inlets of the exhaust runners. Likewise, the coolant exit pipe includes a plurality of inlets coupled to the coolant outlets of the exhaust runners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Power Solutions International, Inc.
    Inventors: Constantine Xykis, Mark Damico, Dan Kasper, Patrick Stockwell, Joshua Horner
  • Patent number: 11549431
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Brian Cooley, Kai Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11549555
    Abstract: A bearing arrangement for a turbomachine includes first and second roller element bearings. The first bearing and the second bearing are disposed on opposite axial ends of an intermediate sleeve of the rotating group. The first bearing has a first inner race with a first inner radial surface and a first outer radial surface. The first inner radial surface has a first interference fit with a shaft of the rotating group. The first outer radial surface has a second interference fit with the intermediate sleeve. The second bearing has a second inner race with a second inner radial surface and a second outer radial surface. The second inner race receives the shaft with a clearance fit. The second outer radial surface has a third interference fit with the intermediate sleeve. The second inner race is coaxially aligned with the first inner race and the shaft via coaxial alignment of the intermediate sleeve and the first inner race.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: GARRETT TRANSPORTATION I INC.
    Inventors: Mahidhar Raju Ratnakaram, Joel Pierre Raymond Castan, Christopher Clive Keith Mitchell, Kiran Somashekar Rao Nazare, Jean-Luc Perrin, Gérard Dieudonné
  • Patent number: 11536193
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wastegate arrangement for an exhaust gas turbocharger comprising a turbine housing (10) having a bearing mount (19), wherein the bearing mount (19) receives a bearing bushing (50) having a drilled hole (51), wherein the drilled hole (51) holds a shaft (31) having a first shaft end (31.1) disposed in the turbine housing (10), and having a second shaft end (31.2) retained outside the turbine housing (10), wherein the first shaft end (31.1) of the shaft (31) is coupled to a wastegate flap (37) disposed in the turbine housing (10) to close a wastegate passage (15) in a closed position and to release a wastegate passage (15) in an open position, wherein the shaft (31) bears an actuating lever (24) at its second shaft end (31.2) outside of the turbine housing (10), wherein the bearing bushing (50) has a second bearing bushing end (53), which faces the actuating lever (24) in the zone of the outer surface of the turbine housing (10), wherein a spring element (40), a second spring end (40.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Inventors: Timo Tries, Fabian Haslinger, Volker Tietsch, Franz Starke, Niklas Rodeck, Carsten John
  • Patent number: 11530618
    Abstract: An assembly can include an exhaust gas turbine housing including an inner wall and an outer wall that define a first exhaust gas channel and a second exhaust gas channel to a turbine wheel space where the inner wall includes an inner wall end at the turbine wheel space and the outer wall includes an outer wall end at the turbine wheel space; a first flow body disposed adjacent to the inner wall end; a second flow body disposed adjacent to the outer wall end; and at least one set of adjustable variable geometry nozzle vanes that define nozzle throats that direct flow of exhaust gas from at least one of the exhaust gas channels to the turbine wheel space, where at least one of the first flow body and the second flow body includes a concave trailing surface that is defined in part by an arc of a circle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Garrett Transportation I Inc.
    Inventors: Laurentius Walter Cosmas Jaeger, Filip Eckl, Petr Pribyl
  • Patent number: 11525395
    Abstract: As seen in a section parallel to a central axis of a shaft and including the center of gravity of a valve surface, with respect to the center of gravity, an end of the valve surface on the side of a first shaft direction is located on the side of a first direction in a direction orthogonal to the central axis of the shaft. As seen in a section orthogonal to the central axis of the shaft and including the center of gravity when the central axis of the shaft and a central axis of a through-hole coincide with each other, with respect to the center of gravity, an end of the valve surface on the side of a second direction in a direction along the valve seat surface is located on the side of the first direction in a direction orthogonal to the valve seat surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi Murase, Masaaki Matsuda
  • Patent number: 11506098
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a turbocharger. In one example, a method may include flowing bleed air to control a catalyst temperature. The bleed air is directed from a bleed port of a compressor of an engine system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Brian Martz, Liangjun Hu, Paul Joseph Tennison, Eric Matthew Kurtz, Gregory McConville
  • Patent number: 11506078
    Abstract: A turbocharger includes a shaft, a compressor wheel, a turbine wheel, and a bearing assembly including an inner race, a first outer race spaced from the inner race, a second outer race spaced from the inner race, a first rolling element disposed between the first outer race and the inner race, and a second rolling element disposed between the second outer race and the inner race. The bearing assembly includes a first biasing member configured to bias the first outer race toward the second outer race and against the first rolling element, and preload the first rolling element with a preloading force, and a second biasing member configured to bias the second outer race toward the first outer race and against the second rolling element, and preload the second rolling element with a second preloading force. The first preloading force is different than the second preloading force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventors: Erwin Perry Ellwood, III, Kenneth Richard Bischof, Raj Chandramohanan
  • Patent number: 11499471
    Abstract: Systems and methods for reducing heat loss to a turbocharger during cold engine starting are described. In one example, a turbocharger bypass pipe and a turbocharger turbine pipe are oriented at forty five degrees relative to a longitudinal axis of a catalyst so that a turbocharger turbine may be completely bypassed, thereby increasing the amount of energy that may be transferred to the catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Xiaogang Zhang, Peter Moilanen, Ray Host, Steven Wooldridge, William Charles Ruona, Jianwen Yi
  • Patent number: 11492965
    Abstract: A turbocharger includes a three-way rotary turbine bypass valve (TBV) operable to selectively supply exhaust gases to a turbine feed passage leading to a turbine wheel, and/or to a bypass passage that bypasses the turbine wheel. The TBV is structured and arranged to close the bypass outlet of the valve when the turbine outlet is fully open, to partially open the bypass passage while the turbine outlet remains fully open, to fully open the bypass passage when the turbine outlet is partially closed, and to fully open the bypass passage when the turbine passage is fully closed. The TBV turns the exhaust gas flows through acute angles between inlet and outlets, mitigating pressure losses through the valve. Leakage to bypass is minimized by a labyrinth seal formed when the valve member closes the bypass outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Garrett Transportation I Inc.
    Inventors: Jaroslav Krejci, Jan Klement, Miroslav Zatko
  • Patent number: 11492959
    Abstract: Steering rod for connecting an actuator to a turbocharger drive member, comprising an elongated main body (2), which extends between a first end (5) equipped with a first through-hole (7), and a second end (6) equipped with a second through-hole (8), and two bushings (3), (4) immovably mounted in the through-holes (7), (8), wherein the bushings (3), (4) are made of a material which has a greater resistance to mechanical wear than the material delimiting the through-holes (7), (8), and wherein each bushing (3) (4) has an outer surface that is in contact with an inner part of the through-hole (7), (8) and has a radial recess (9), the second material tightening the bushing (3), (4) preventing it from rotating and filling the recess (9) preventing the bushing (3), (4) from being extracted from the second through-hole (7), (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: FAIST COMPONENTI S.P.A.
    Inventors: Domenico Carnevale, Andrea Asfalti
  • Patent number: 11492958
    Abstract: An example engine system is disclosed. The engine system may control a turbocharger of an internal combustion engine, and more particularly control a boost pressure provided by a turbocharger to an internal combustion engine. An example method for controlling a boost pressure provided by a turbocharger may include receiving a boost pressure demand and identifying a compressor speed demand to achieve the received boost pressure demand. The method may also include converting the compressor speed demand into a kinetic energy demand of the turbocharger rotating components and controlling the kinetic energy of the turbocharger rotating components to meet the kinetic energy demand by controlling power supplied by the turbine and the electric motor assist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Garrett Transportation I Inc.
    Inventors: Martin Herceg, Lubomir Baramov, Jaroslav Pekar
  • Patent number: 11492922
    Abstract: A turbocharger includes a turbine wheel, a turbine housing, a bearing housing, a compressor housing, a seal plate, a variable nozzle mechanism, a penetrating shaft, and a spring member. The variable nozzle mechanism is located within the turbine housing, and adjusts the amount of exhaust gas that flows toward the turbine wheel. The penetrating shaft extends through the bearing housing and is connected to the variable nozzle mechanism. The spring member pushes out the penetrating shaft toward the compressor housing. The bearing housing and the seal plate define a cooling chamber through which coolant flows. The spring member is located in the cooling chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Takashi Tsukiyama, Tsuyoshi Uesugi
  • Patent number: 11486296
    Abstract: An exhaust gas turbocharger assembly includes a turbocharger, an actuator, and a bolted connection for releasably securing the actuator housing on a housing flange of the turbocharger housing. The bolted connection includes a through opening, an aperture bounded at the circumference by an internal thread made of a metal, and a fit bolt with a bolt body which merges axially into a bolt head. The bolt body has a first axial body section with an external thread formed in a manner complementary to the internal thread of the aperture, and a second axial body section arranged axially between the bolt head and the first body section. The fit bolt engages through the through opening of the actuator housing in the internal thread of the aperture with the external thread to clamp the actuator housing between the housing flange of the turbocharger housing and the bolt head of the fit bolt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Mahle International GmbH
    Inventor: Peer Niekamp
  • Patent number: 11480141
    Abstract: An improved supercharger airflow intake that reduces air flow turbulence and provides an increase in the volume of airflow therethrough and into a vehicle supercharger, thereby increasing the efficiency and performance of the supercharger and thereby the engine of a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Inventor: Michael Hooley
  • Patent number: 11473594
    Abstract: A compressor has a rotor assembly having an impeller for generating an airflow through the compressor, a stator core assembly for causing rotation of the impeller, and a diffuser assembly for acting on the airflow generated by the impeller. The diffuser assembly has a first diffuser stage and a second diffuser stage. The first and second diffuser stages are separate components connected to one another by a fastener.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Mark Andrew Johnson, Simon Alexander Locke, Matthew John Childe, Cathal Clancy, Vadivel Kumaran Sivashanmugam, Nora Er-Rouhly, Lukasz Andrzej Kowalczyk, Alan Glynn Sanderson, Thomas Richard Stafford, Sarah Elizabeth Elson, Alexander Thomas Wells, Jim Ray Lluisma
  • Patent number: 11459940
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a turbocharger. In one example, the turbocharger comprises an injector configured to inject a medium therein, wherein the injector is configured to inject the medium toward a turbine of the turbocharger. The turbocharger further comprising a turbine driven by exhaust gases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: William Gerald Barr
  • Patent number: 11454198
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for to methods and systems for distributing exhaust gas to a turbine, a turbocharger bypass, and an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) line via a valve. In one example, a method may include selectively flowing exhaust gas, via a valve coupled to an exhaust passage, to one or more of an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) passage, an exhaust turbine, and an exhaust catalyst via a bypass passage without flowing through the exhaust turbine based on engine operating conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Xiaogang Zhang, Daniel Joseph Styles, Steven Wooldridge, Clayton Mikush