Abstract: An exhaust gas turbocharger for an internal combustion engine includes an exhaust gas turbine in the exhaust gas system and a compressor in the intake system for producing compressed charge air. A compressor rotor is arranged in a compressor inlet channel. In order to achieve a greater range of utilization, an adjustable shutoff element is arranged in the compressor inlet channel, upstream from the compressor rotor, for variable adjustment of the effective cross-section.

Abstract: An exhaust gas turbocharger with an exhaust gas turbine and a radial compressor includes an impeller which pumps air through guide vanes or wedge guide elements into a helical passage. It is proposed that the guide vanes or wedge vane elements be guided for axial displacement in the casing of the radial compressor and be able to be shifted across the pumped stream of the impeller.

Abstract: In an air compressor, particularly for an internal combustion engine, which compressor has a compressor housing with a flow duct structure and a recirculation arrangement including a bypass structure for recirculation some of the air entering the compressor wheel, a recirculating ring is arranged in the bypass flow structure around the compressor wheel which ring has a plurality of flow passages distributed uniformly around its circumference with inflow orifices at the radial inner end in communication with the compressor flow duct and outflow orifice at the radial outer end in communication with a by-pass flow space.

Abstract: An engine brake for a supercharged internal combustion engine for driving a motor vehicle is operated such that the working gas compressed during engine braking, prior to the end of the expansion cycle, is drawn at least partially from the working chambers of the engine through at least one throttle valve, with an exhaust turbocharger of the engine having an exhaust turbine with variable turbine geometry. The engine braking power is regulated based upon the travel of the throttle valve and/or an intake cross section of the exhaust turbine as a function of the operating parameters of the internal combustion engine and the vehicle driving speed. Upon issuance of a signal indicating a braking performance requirement from the driver, the required braking power is applied at least preferably through the engine brake.

Abstract: In an exhaust gas turbocharger for an internal combustion engine including an exhaust gas turbine and a compressor connected to the turbine so as to be operated thereby, the turbine includes a housing consisting of an inner and an outer shell formed from steel sheets and being arranged in spaced relationship so as to form therebetween an intermediate space.

Abstract: In an internal combustion engine including an exhaust gas turbocharger and a compound power turbine connected to the crankshaft of the engine and an exhaust gas recirculation system extending between the engine exhaust duct upstream of the exhaust gas turbine and the intake duct downstream of the compressor of the exhaust gas turbocharger, the exhaust gas turbine and the compound power turbine have a size relationship determined by the power absorption capability &phgr; of each turbine such that: 1 φ = m .

Abstract: An internal combustion engine has an exhaust gas turbocharger with an exhaust gas turbine and a compressor. In addition, an air-driven turbine is provided which is torsionally connected to the compressor and to which combustion air can be supplied via an adjustable shut-off element. For operation of the exhaust gas turbocharger over a wide operating spectrum, an additional duct is provided between compressor inlet and the air inlet of the air turbine, the air supply in the additional duct being adjustable by the shut-off element. In the lower load range, in the case where the required boost pressure falls below a threshold value, the additional duct is opened by means of the shut-off element and the air supply to the compressor inlet is reduced.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine having an exhaust-gas turbocharger is provided. The exhaust-gas turbocharger includes a variable turbine geometry that allows for a greater range of use. The exhaust-gas turbocharger is used as a throttling device to dimension the combustion-air quantity delivered to the engine. The variable turbine geometry can be adjusted in such a way that the direction of rotation of the rotor of the exhaust-gas turbocharger is reversed. The intake pressure in the air inlet of the internal combustion engine is set as a function of the direction of rotation of the rotor.

Abstract: In an exhaust gas turbocharger for an internal combustion engine, in which a compressor is disposed in the intake duct and a turbine is disposed in the exhaust duct, and wherein the turbine has a turbine wheel in a turbine housing with at least one inlet flow passage for the introduction of exhaust gas which flow passage is provided with a variable turbine geometry for the variable setting of the effective turbine inlet flow passage cross-section, the variable turbine geometry being adjustable between a shut-off position that minimizes the turbine inlet flow cross-section and an open position that maximizes the turbine inlet flow cross-section, a gas-collecting chamber is provided which is in communication with the inlet flow passage in the turbine housing, the total volume of flow passage and the gas-collecting chamber being adjustable by an actuator movably disposed in the turbine housing as a function of the operating state of the internal combustion engine.

Abstract: In an exhaust gas turbocharger for an internal combustion engine having an air intake duct and an exhaust duct and wherein the turbocharger includes a compressor arranged in the air intake duct and a turbine arranged in the exhaust duct and a shaft carrying the turbine wheel and the compressor impeller, an electric motor is provided which includes a rotor provided with an air mover disposed in the inlet area of the compressor and being controllable for rotation independently of the rotation of the turbine.

Abstract: In an exhaust gas turbocharger for an internal combustion engine having an exhaust gas turbine arranged in an exhaust gas line, and a compressor arranged in an intake duct and connected to the turbine by way of a shaft, the compressor includes a compressor wheel forming at the same time a rotor of an electric motor.

Abstract: An exhaust-gas turbocharger for an internal combustion engine has a turbine having a variable turbine geometry for the variable setting of the effective flow inlet cross section to the turbine wheel. The exhaust-gas turbocharger has a compressor which is connected to the turbine via a shaft. The variable turbine geometry can be adjusted by means of a regulating device between a closed position and an open position. To compensate for wear, a stop limiting an end position of the variable turbine geometry is provided, and the position of this stop can be set in a variable manner.

Abstract: In an exhaust turbocharger for an internal combustion engine including a turbine and a compressor, which is driven by the turbine, wherein the compressor comprises a compressor impeller in a flow duct, a transfer component with flow passages extends radially around the compressor impeller in the axial direction of the impeller and provides for communication with the flow duct. To provide for variable adjustment of the effective flow cross-section of the transfer duct, a transfer ring is provided which comprises two component rings, which are rotatable relative to one another.

Abstract: An exhaust-gas turbocharger for an internal combustion engine has an exhaust-gas turbine in the exhaust tract and a compressor in the intake tract, the exhaust-gas turbine and the compressor being connected via a shaft which is supported in a casing of the exhaust-gas turbocharger via at least one bearing. In order to improve the efficiency of the turbocharger, the bearing has a non-contact design, in that, when the exhaust-gas turbocharger is in operation, the shaft is held at a distance from, and so as to be virtually free of friction with, a bearing receptacle fixed to the casing.

Abstract: An internal-combustion engine has an engine braking device which has brake valves by way of which the combustion chamber content of the cylinders can be diverted in the engine braking phase. In the engine braking operation, the brake valves are changed into the opening position. In order to increase the operational reliability of the engine braking device, a blocking device is provided which acts upon the brake valves and which can be adjusted between a holding position and a release position. In the holding position of the blocking device, the brake valves are held in the opening position.

Abstract: An exhaust gas turbine portion of a vehicle engine turbocharger is provided with at least one variable guide-blade cascade with guide blades in a nozzle opening to the turbocharger rotor for effectively changing the cross section of the exhaust flow to the rotor wherein the angle of the guide blades is selectively settable by an adjusting device. The width dimension of the gap between the ends of the guide-blade cascade and the casing wall defining the nozzle is adjustable between a substantially zero gap dimension and a maximum gap dimension.

Abstract: An internal-combustion engine with a turbocharger is suggested, in the case of which a limiting of the exhaust gas counterpressure is provided in the braking operating mode of the internal-combustion engine.

Abstract: A description is given of an internal combustion engine/turbocharger configuration for an internal combustion engine/turbocharger system, which configuration allows maximum braking power combined with low thermal loading.

Abstract: In order to increase the operating reliability by means of simple measures in a method for operating a supercharged internal combustion engine which has two exhaust-gas turbochargers arranged in parallel, in each case only one exhaust-gas turbocharger is actively put into operation, the actual value of a characteristic quantity is measured and is compared with a predeterminable desired value, and, in the event of an inadmissible deviation of the actual value from the desired value, a change-over is made between the exhaust-gas turbochargers by means of the control signal.

Abstract: In a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine including an exhaust gas turbocharger to which at least two separate exhaust lines extend from different groups of cylinders of the engine, the exhaust lines have discharge openings arranged adjacent one another along a control surface area and a control slide member supported so as to be movable relative to the exhaust gas discharge openings includes wall portions movable with the slide member between a position in which the wall portions of the slide member are in alignment with stationary wall portions between the discharge openings for maintaining the exhaust gas flow passages separated from one another and a position in which the wall portions on the slide member are out of alignment with the stationary wall portions, wherein the exhaust gas lines are in communication with one another.