Patents by Inventor Juerg Spuler

Juerg Spuler has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7955047
    Abstract: Variable geometry turbine, in particular a gas turbine, comprising a housing (2, 22), a turbine rotor (4), a fluid inlet scroll (1) that surrounds the turbine rotor, a vaned nozzle interposed between the inlet scroll and the turbine rotor conceived to accelerate the flow of fluid, the nozzle comprising an axially adjustable ring (5, 25) conceived to vary the nozzle gap (3, 23) and having a wall (19) delimiting the nozzle gap, the wall having balance holes (6, 26, 26?) connecting the nozzle gap with a chamber (12) delimited by the housing and the ring, characterised in that the edges (16), formed by the holes with the surface (18) of the wall facing the nozzle gap, are rounded in the portion (17, 17?) located downstream the holes with respect to the fluid flow. Turbocharger and supercharged engine comprising the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Iveco Motorenforschung AG
    Inventor: Juerg Spuler
  • Publication number: 20090097969
    Abstract: Variable geometry turbine, in particular a gas turbine, comprising a housing (2, 22), a turbine rotor (4), a fluid inlet scroll (1) that surrounds said turbine rotor, a vaned nozzle interposed between said inlet scroll and said turbine rotor conceived to accelerate the flow of fluid, said nozzle comprising an axially adjustable ring (5, 25) conceived to vary the nozzle gap (3, 23) and having a wall (19) delimiting said nozzle gap, said wall having balance holes (6, 26, 26?) connecting the nozzle gap with a chamber (12) delimited by said housing and said ring, characterised in that the edges (16), formed by said holes with the surface (18) of said wall facing the nozzle gap, are rounded in the portion (17, 17?) located downstream the holes with respect to the fluid flow. Turbocharger and supercharged engine comprising said turbine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2007
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Inventor: Juerg Spuler
  • Patent number: 6810666
    Abstract: A variable geometry turbine, particularly for a supercharger turbocompressor of an internal combustion engine, comprising an outer housing forming a spiral inlet channel for an operating fluid, a rotor supported in a rotary manner in the housing, and an annular vaned nozzle of variable geometry interposed radially between the channel and the rotor and comprising a control member moving axially in order to control of the flow of the operating fluid from the channel to the rotor, the control member being formed as an annular piston of a fluid actuator actuated directly by means of a control pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2004
    Assignee: Iveco Motorenforschung AG
    Inventors: Ernst Lutz, Juerg Spuler
  • Patent number: 6625986
    Abstract: An engine-turbocharger unit for a vehicle, in particular an industrial vehicle, having an internal combustion engine; a decompression brake device; and a turbocharger in turn having a variable-geometry turbine driven by the exhaust gas from the engine, and a compressor driven by the turbine and connected at the outlet to an intake manifold of the engine; the unit also has a throttling device located on the outlet side of the turbine and settable between a fully-open attitude and a closed attitude; the variable-geometry turbine and the throttling device are jointly controlled, thereby allowing independent control of the exhaust manifold pressure of the combustion engine and of the expansion ratio of the turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2003
    Assignee: Iveco Motorenforschung AG
    Inventors: Jean-Francois Mazaud, Juerg Spuler
  • Patent number: 6523345
    Abstract: A control system for a variable-geometry turbocharger connected to an internal combustion engine, whereby the geometry of the turbocharger is controlled alternatively according to a first operating mode, a second operating mode or a third operating mode; the system providing for switching from one operating mode to another fully automatically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignee: Iveco Notorenforschung AG
    Inventors: Guenther Scherngell, Werner Zaehner, Juerg Spuler
  • Publication number: 20030014973
    Abstract: An engine-turbocharger unit for a vehicle, in particular an industrial vehicle, having an internal combustion engine; a decompression brake device; and a turbocharger in turn having a variable-geometry turbine driven by the exhaust gas from the engine, and a compressor driven by the turbine and connected at the outlet to an intake manifold of the engine; the unit also has a throttling device located on the outlet side of the turbine and settable between a fully-open attitude and a closed attitude; the variable-geometry turbine and the throttling device are jointly controlled, thereby allowing independent control of the exhaust manifold pressure of the combustion engine and of the expansion ratio of the turbine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2002
    Publication date: January 23, 2003
    Inventors: Jean-Francois Mazaud, Juerg Spuler
  • Publication number: 20030010029
    Abstract: A variable geometry turbine, particularly for a supercharger turbocompressor of an internal combustion engine, comprising an outer housing forming a spiral inlet channel for an operating fluid, a rotor supported in a rotary manner in the housing, and an annular vaned nozzle of variable geometry interposed radially between the channel and the rotor and comprising a control member moving axially in order to control of the flow of the operating fluid from the channel to the rotor, the control member being formed as an annular piston of a fluid actuator actuated directly by means of a control pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2002
    Publication date: January 16, 2003
    Inventors: Ernst Lutz, Juerg Spuler
  • Publication number: 20020157395
    Abstract: A control system for a variable-geometry turbocharger connected to an internal combustion engine, whereby the geometry of the turbocharger is controlled alternatively according to a first operating mode, a second operating mode or a third operating mode; the system providing for switching from one operating mode to another fully automatically.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2001
    Publication date: October 31, 2002
    Inventors: Guenther Scherngell, Werner Zaehner, Juerg Spuler