Abstract: An object is to provide an engine system including an intake bypass device whereby it is possible to expand the operation range of a compressor without causing the output of a turbine to become insufficient. An engine system includes an intake bypass device including a bypass channel connecting a downstream side of a compressor of a turbocharger in an intake channel and an upstream side of a turbine of the turbocharger in an exhaust channel, a bypass valve disposed in the bypass channel and configured to control a flow of compressed intake air in the bypass channel, and a heating unit for heating the compressed intake air flowing through the bypass channel.

Abstract: A light-receiving module of the present invention includes: a lens collimating signal light entering from an optical fiber; a PLC (Planar Lightwave Circuit) where the signal light emitted by the lens enters; a mirror having a function of reflecting and transmitting the signal light emitted by the PLC; and a light-receiving element receiving the signal light reflected by the mirror. The mirror also has a function of transmitting light from the opposite direction to a direction to transmit the signal light emitted by the PLC. The module further includes a dummy mirror which reflects external light entering from outside in a direction toward the PLC, passes the reflected external light through the mirror from the opposite direction to the signal light transmission direction, causes the light to enter the PLC, and guides the light to the optical fiber via the PLC.

Abstract: In a scroll shape of a centrifugal compressor, an enlargement rate of a ratio A/R of a cross-sectional area A of a scroll portion 12 to a radius R from an axis L1 of a compressor impeller 3 to a centroid P0 of a cross section of the scroll portion is reduced from a winding start to a winding end of the scroll portion.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to decrease a surging limit flow rate at a low flow rate time, by increasing the inflow velocity to the blade of the impeller wheel, by providing a resistive element that narrows in the radial direction a passage cross section of an air intake passage which communicates between a impeller wheel of a centrifugal compressor and an air intake opening. The centrifugal compressor includes: the compressor housing 9 having the air intake opening 13 opened in a rotary shaft direction, and the air intake passage 11; and the impeller wheel 7 for compressing the air flowing in from the air intake opening 13, inside the housing.

Abstract: An object is to provide a fluid machine whereby it is possible to improve performance, for example, expand a flow-rate operation rage with a simplified shape of an intake pipe. A fluid machine includes an impeller mounted to a rotation shaft, a housing which houses the impeller rotatably, and an intake pipe for supplying a fluid to the housing. The intake pipe includes at least a first bend portion disposed on a first plane, and a second bend portion disposed at a downstream side of the first bend portion and on a second plane which is different from the first plane. The second bend portion includes an upstream section having a center axis oriented along a center axis of a downstream section of the first bend portion and a downstream section having a center axis oriented along an axial direction of the impeller at a front of the impeller. The intake pipe has a constant cross-sectional shape from an upstream end of the first bend portion to a downstream end of the second bend portion.

Abstract: Provided is a centrifugal compressor which can be stably operated in a wide range by increasing an operating range on a low-flow-rate side and on a high-flow-rate side, with a simple structure of combining a recirculation flow path and a reverse swirling flow generation unit including fixed blades, without providing a complicated movable mechanism for a guide vane.

Abstract: Interference of a leakage vortex flow generated at the tip end side of the full blade with the leading edge of the splitter blade is avoided and high pressure ratio and enhanced efficiency can be achieved. A throat of am impeller is formed so that a distance from a leading edge of a rear side full blade on the rear side of the rotation direction of the compressor to a front side full blade adjacent to the rear side full blade is minimized, and the leading edge of the splitter blade is placed in a fluid flow streaming along the flow passage between the mutually adjacent full blades, on the downstream side of a leakage vortex line formed to connect the middle location of the throat to the leading edge of the front side full blade.

Abstract: The phase sensitive amplifier according to the present invention is a phase sensitive amplifier that uses the optical mixing using a nonlinear optical effect to amplify the signal light. The phase sensitive amplifier according to the present invention includes: the first second-order nonlinear optical element; and the second second-order nonlinear optical element. The first second-order nonlinear optical element causes the fundamental wave light to generate second harmonic light used as pump light and separates only the second harmonic light. The second second-order nonlinear optical element includes a multiplexer to multiplex the signal light with the second harmonic light and spectrally separates only the amplified signal light. The multiplexed signal light and second harmonic light are used subjected to parametric amplification.

Abstract: An impeller of a centrifugal includes, a plurality of full blades provided from the fluid inlet part to the fluid outlet part of the impeller; a plurality of splitter blades provided on the hub surface, wherein the geometry of a flow entering part of the splitter blade is compatible with the complicated flow inside the compressor so that the evenly distributed flow rate distribution, the increased pressure ratio and the enhanced efficiency are achieved. The leading edge blade angle ? in the tip end part of the flow entering front-end-part of the splitter blade 7 in the area of the higher height level from the hub surface is further inclined smoothly toward the blade suction surface side Sb of the full blade 5 in comparison with the inclination standard curve, the increased inclination angle becoming smoothly greater in response to the increase of the height level.

Abstract: In a variable geometry turbocharger including a variable nozzle mechanism, an object is to enhance safety upon malfunction of the variable nozzle mechanism as well as to improve accuracy in the control of the variable nozzle mechanism by applying a moment that acts on the nozzle vanes in an opening direction securely and stably.

Abstract: An object is to provide an air intake duct structure for a centrifugal fluid machine, capable of swirling the fluid introduced into the impeller in the reverse direction to increase the pressure ratio when the flow rate is high and swirling the fluid in the forward direction to avoid a surging when the flow rate is low, as well as securing a wide operating range, without using mechanical means. The centrifugal fluid machine 1 includes an impeller 12 mounted to a rotation shaft and a housing 4 for housing the impeller 12. The air intake duct structure 10 is for directing a fluid “f” to a rotational center 12a of the impeller 12 housed in the housing 4 via an intake duct portion 4a of the housing 4 protruding in an axial direction of the rotation shaft, the fluid “f” flowing in a substantially orthogonal direction to a rotational axis line 3.

Abstract: The phase sensitive amplifier according to the present invention is a phase sensitive amplifier that uses the optical mixing using a nonlinear optical effect to amplify the signal light. The phase sensitive amplifier according to the present invention includes: the first second-order nonlinear optical element; and the second second-order nonlinear optical element. The first second-order nonlinear optical element causes the fundamental wave light to generate second harmonic light used as pump light and separates only the second harmonic light. The second second-order nonlinear optical element includes a multiplexer to multiplex the signal light with the second harmonic light and spectrally separates only the amplified signal light. The multiplexed signal light and second harmonic light are used subjected to parametric amplification.

Abstract: A compressor of an exhaust gas turbocharger has a compressor housing of a divided type that forms an inlet slit, an outlet slit and a recirculation passage at the same time when the compressor housing is assembled. In the compressor of the exhaust gas turbocharger, mating surfaces of compressor housing members 9a and 9b are formed in the neighborhood of the inlet part of the impeller 5 in the compressor housing 9 that is divided into the compressor housing members 9a and 9b in the direction of the rotation axis of the impeller; and, a space forming the recirculation passage 29, an inlet slit 25 and an outlet slit 27 are formed between the mating compressor housing members 9a and 9b.

Abstract: A light-receiving module of the present invention includes: a lens collimating signal light entering from an optical fiber; a PLC (Planar Lightwave Circuit) where the signal light emitted by the lens enters; a mirror having a function of reflecting and transmitting the signal light emitted by the PLC; and a light-receiving element receiving the signal light reflected by the mirror. The mirror also has a function of transmitting light from the opposite direction to a direction to transmit the signal light emitted by the PLC. The module further includes a dummy mirror which reflects external light entering from outside in a direction toward the PLC, passes the reflected external light through the mirror from the opposite direction to the signal light transmission direction, causes the light to enter the PLC, and guides the light to the optical fiber via the PLC.

Abstract: In a wastegate valve which is provided in the bypass path bypassing the turbine of the turbocharger in the exhaust gas path and which opens and closes the bypass path, the wastegate valve is provided with a valve seat which is formed in a plane perpendicular to or tilted with an inclination angle with respect to an axial direction of the bypass path, and a valving element which is pivotable around a pivot point which has a relationship of 0°<?<90° with respect to the plane including the valve seat where ? is an inclination angle, the valving element being moved away from or closer to the valve seat by pivotation of the valving element to open or close the valve.

Abstract: A turbocharger and a method of manufacturing a floating bush with which noise can be reduced, and the rotation speed can be increased. In a turbocharger in which a rotating shaft having a circular cross-section and connecting a turbine rotor and a compressor rotor is supported in a freely rotatable manner, at two axially separated positions via floating bushes, by an inner circumferential surface disposed so as to surround the rotating shaft in a bearing housing, an inner circumferential surface of each of the floating bushes has a non-circular shape in which the curvature of the cross-sectional shape varies in the circumferential direction.

Abstract: An axial cross-sectional shape of a scroll flow path 13 is a roughly circular shape, a diffuser outlet connected to the roughly circular shape is shifted to a position which is closer to a circle center than to a position of a tangent line to the circular shape and which does not reach the circle center, the circular shape is formed from a scroll chamber 30 which juts out in the axial direction relative to the position of the diffuser outlet 11a and a shift chamber 32 that forms a remainder of the roughly circular shape in a direction opposite to the scroll chamber 30, and the shift chamber 32 is at least formed on the scroll flow path 13 of a winding end portion 19 in a circumferential direction of a spiral.

Abstract: In a scroll shape of a centrifugal compressor, an enlargement rate of a ratio A/R of a cross-sectional area A of a scroll portion 12 to a radius R from an axis L1 of a compressor impeller 3 to a centroid P0 of a cross section of the scroll portion is reduced from a winding start to a winding end of the scroll portion.

Abstract: Provided is a centrifugal compressor impeller which is characterized in that leading edges 7a on a shroud side of splitter blades 7 are offset from a circumferentially equidistant position between full blades 5R and 5F toward a suction side Sb of the full blade 5F, and trailing edges 7b on a hub side of the splitter blades 7 are offset from a circumferentially equidistant position between the full blades toward the suction side Sb of the full blade 5F, so that a tip leakage vortex W flowing from a tip clearance between the tips of the full blades 5F and the shroud toward the leading edges 7a of the splitter blades 7 flows over the leading edges 7a of the splitter blades 7.

Abstract: In a scroll structure of a centrifugal compressor, there are provided a radius increase arc portion E in which a radius from the center of a scroll 12 to a scroll centroid P of the cross section of the scroll 12 is gradually increased in any range in a circumferential direction from the start of winding of the scroll, and a radius decrease arc portion F in which the radius is gradually decreased toward a scroll end point Z.