Abstract: A wall arrangement for the main gas path of a gas turbine engine, including: a wall segment which defines the main gas path, the wall segment having a gas path side, an outboard side and a support wall extending from the outboard side towards a supporting structure, and a channel member abutting the support wall and having one or more channels defined by the abutment of the support wall and channel member, the one or more channel having radially separated inlet and outlet.

Abstract: The invention relates to a lubrication device for a turbine engine, comprising an oil intake pipe (23) provided with a pump (24) for supplying oil and control means (30) located downstream from the supply pump (24), a supply pipe (26) intended for supplying oil to a member to be lubricated and a recirculation pipe (27) connected upstream from the supply pump (24), the control means (30) making it possible to direct all or part of the flow of oil from the intake pipe (23) towards the supply pipe (26) and/or towards the recirculation pipe (27).

Abstract: A bearing housing, or integrated turbocharger housing, with the oil, and optionally air and water galleries, included as as-cast features, thereby avoiding the problems, design limitations and expense associated with conventional post-casting machining. The method of casting preferably uses lost foam casting, or a technique similar to lost foam casting but in which a ceramic shell is formed on the foam form prior to metal casting, but can use any of a variety of casting techniques or a combination of two or more techniques.

Abstract: The internal combustion engine is provided which may include a cylinder head, a turbine, and a turbine housing. The turbine housing may include an exhaust gas passage, at least one coolant fluid passage, and a wall between the passages. The wall may have a first area (Aexhaust) disposed to absorb heat from an exhaust flow passing through the exhaust gas passage, and a second area (Acoolant) disposed to transfer heat from the wall to be absorbed by a coolant fluid flow passing through the at least one coolant fluid passage, wherein the following applies: Acoolant/Aexhaust?1.2.

Abstract: A cylindrical case includes a case main body made of a composite material of reinforcing fibers impregnated with a thermosetting resin, and an outward flange on the case main body. The outward flange includes: a bonding layer; a foundation layer disposed on the bonding layer; one flange constituting layer having a leg layer which is laminated from one slope surface of the foundation layer to the bonding layer and a wall layer which rises from the one slope surface; and the other flange constituting layer having a leg layer which is laminated from the other slope surface of the foundation layer to the bonding layer and a wall layer which rises from the other slope surface. The foundation layer is formed by laminating roving layers, while the flange constituting layers are formed by laminating a plurality of biaxial fabric layers including a biaxial fabric of a non-crimp structure.

Abstract: An annular bushing includes an annular cylindrical portion with a flange that defines a fastener aperture along an axis. A multiple of spacers extend from an outer surface of the annular cylindrical portion and the flange. The multiple of spacers are operable to control a bond line thickness.

Abstract: A method of controlling a turbine of an exhaust heat recovery system in which heat of exhaust gas evaporates a working fluid through a heat exchanger provided in an exhaust pipe and the working fluid is supplied to the turbine may include measuring an internal temperature of the heat exchanger, and rotating the turbine in a reverse direction when the measured internal temperature is a predetermined temperature or less.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a supercritical carbon dioxide power generation system utilizing a plurality of heat sources, comprising: a pump for circulating a working fluid; a plurality of heat exchangers for heating the working fluid through an external heat source; a plurality of turbines driven by the working fluid heated through the heat exchangers; and a plurality of recuperators that allow the working fluid passed through the turbines and the working fluid passed through the pump to heat exchange with each other to cool the working fluid passed through the turbine, wherein the plurality of heat exchangers are sequentially disposed from a high temperature region at an inlet end into which waste heat gas stream is introduced up to a low temperature region at an outlet end through which the waste heat gas stream is discharged via a mediate temperature region.

Abstract: A phaser with a rotor assembly having a pattern on an inner diameter that acts as a sealing land or divider between the advance supply port and the retard supply port. This pattern allows the advance supply ports and the retard supply ports to be on the same plane, allowing the overall axial length of the rotor to be shorter. The pattern is preferably formed onto the inner diameter of the rotor through net forming.

Abstract: A valve opening/closing timing control apparatus includes: a driving side rotator configured to rotate synchronously with a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine; a driven side rotator disposed coaxially with a rotation axis of the driving side rotator and configured to rotate integrally with a valve opening/closing camshaft; a connecting bolt disposed coaxially with the rotation axis to connect the driven side rotator to the camshaft, and having an advanced angle port and a retarded angle port formed to extend from an outer peripheral surface to an inner space thereof, the advanced angle port and the retarded angle port communicating with an advanced angle chamber and a retarded angle chamber between the driving side rotator and the driven side rotator, respectively; and a valve unit disposed in the inner space of the connecting bolt.

Abstract: A valve opening/closing timing control apparatus includes: a driving side rotator configured to rotate synchronously with a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine; a driven side rotator disposed coaxially with a rotation axis of the driving side rotator so as to rotate integrally with a valve opening and closing camshaft; a connecting bolt disposed coaxially with the rotation axis to connect the driven side rotator to the camshaft and having an advanced angle port and a retarded angle port formed to extend from an outer peripheral surface to an inner space thereof, which respectively communicate with an advanced angle chamber and a retarded angle chamber between the driving side rotator and the driven side rotator; and a valve unit disposed in the inner space of the connecting bolt, in which the valve unit includes a check valve, and the check valve includes an opening plate and a valve plate.

Abstract: A valve opening/closing timing control apparatus includes: a driving side rotator configured to rotate synchronously with a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine; a driven side rotator disposed coaxially with a rotation axis of the driving side rotator and configured to rotate integrally with a valve opening/closing camshaft; a connecting bolt disposed coaxially with the rotation axis to connect the driven side rotator to the camshaft, and having an advanced angle port and a retarded angle port formed to extend from an outer peripheral surface to an inner space thereof, the advanced angle port and the retarded angle port communicating with an advanced angle chamber and a retarded angle chamber between the driving side rotator and the driven side rotator, respectively; and a valve unit disposed in the inner space of the connecting bolt.

Abstract: A system for controlling a variable valve apparatus may include a plurality of oil control valves (OCVs) configured to respectively supply oil from an oil pump to a plurality of variable valve apparatuses or block the supply of the oil, and a single relief valve coupled to the plurality of oil control valves, wherein pressure in a plurality of control galleries for providing an oil supply path from the plurality of oil control valves to the plurality of variable valve apparatuses is maintained constant by only the single relief valve.

Abstract: Provided is a valve seat insert made of an iron-base sintered alloy, in which a base matrix part that includes a base matrix phase and hard particles, has a base matrix part composition containing, in % by mass, 0.5%-2.0% of carbon and 10%-70% in total of one kind or two or more kinds selected from nickel, cobalt, chromium, molybdenum, vanadium, tungsten, manganese, silicon and sulfur, with the balance being iron and unavoidable impurities, and Co-base hard particles having a composition containing, 1.0% or less of C, 25%-50% of Mo, 5%-15% of Cr, Si as an impurity in a content adjusted to be 0.3% or less, with the balance being Co, and having a Vickers hardness of 500 to 1,500 HV, are dispersed as hard particles in the base matrix phase in an amount of 10%-60% by mass with respect to the total amount of the valve seat insert.

Abstract: The invention relates to an internal combustion engine gas exchange valve actuator and is used to displace one or more internal combustion engine valves thereby improving the operation and extending the capabilities of the engine. The actuator includes a casing (2) attached to the engine head (1) and with a hollow cylinder (3) formed inside it and containing a reciprocating piston (6) with a piston rod. Provision is made in the casing (2) which is closed by a cap (4), for a loop for controlled charging and discharging of the pressurized fluid and for a solenoid valve with direct electromagnetic control. The solenoid valve is positioned above the piston (6) and is formed as a plunger (19) having a lower cylindrical widening with axial orifices (20) and an upper part with a central recess (22) and radial orifices (23) and (24).

Abstract: A high efficiency variable cutoff uniflow steam engine with piston operated valves has an exhaust valve that is held open by a spring during the exhaust stroke but is closed at an end of the exhaust stroke by the piston compressing steam in a compartment associated to act on the exhaust valve. The piston continues to move in the same direction a short distance toward top dead center (TDC) compressing a small residual quantity of steam in the cylinder above the piston during the remaining fraction of the exhaust stroke with sufficient pressure to open the steam inlet valve by steam pressure without an impact caused by physical contact with the piston.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine has a lower link rotatably mounted to a crankpin of a crankshaft, an upper link having a first upper link end rotatably connected to a piston pin of a piston and a second upper link end rotatably connected to a first lower link end side of the lower link through a first connecting pin, and a control link having a first control link end supported on a cylinder block and a second control link end rotatably connected to a second lower link end side of the lower link through a second connecting pin. When viewed in an axial direction of the crankshaft, the second connecting pin is arranged to swing along a lateral direction substantially perpendicular to a center axis of a cylinder of the internal combustion engine.

Abstract: An oil pan assembly including a first portion having an inner set of openings configured to receive a first set of fasteners to couple the first portion to an engine block and a second portion having an outer set of openings positioned laterally outward relative to the inner set of openings and configured to receive a second set of fasteners to couple the second portion to the first portion and the engine block.

Abstract: A lubricating structure for a four-stroke engine includes a first oil groove and a second oil groove. The engine includes a crankcase, a cylinder, a cylinder head and an oil pan. The crankcase makes up a crank chamber. The cylinder head is equipped with a valve chamber housing valve driving mechanism. The oil pan is provided on a bottom of the crank chamber. The first oil groove leads mist of the lubricating oil in the crank chamber to the valve chamber by communicating the crank chamber and the valve chamber with each other. The second oil groove leads surplus lubricating oil in the valve chamber to the oil pan in the crank chamber by communicating a lower part of the valve chamber with a neighborhood of the oil pan in the crank chamber. The first oil groove is set smaller in flow path cross-sectional area than the second oil groove.

Abstract: A muffler that uses baffles at a 45° relative to one another to create a helical configuration within the cylindrical housing allowing exhaust gases to pass more freely than the prior art mufflers, while maintaining superior noise reduction.

Abstract: An automotive vehicle includes an internal combustion engine that generates exhaust gas and an exhaust system that expels the exhaust gas from the vehicle via at least one of a first exhaust conduit and a second exhaust conduit. A disturbance sensor is installed within a cabin of the vehicle, and is configured to detect a disturbance within the cabin and to output a disturbance signal indicative of the disturbance. An exhaust valve has a plurality of positions and adjusts an amount of the exhaust gas delivered to the first and second exhaust conduits. The automotive vehicle further includes an electronic hardware controller in signal communication with the at least one disturbance sensor and the exhaust valve. The controller adjusts the position of the exhaust valve based on the disturbance signal to reduce the disturbance within the cabin.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to an electric exhaust-gas catalytic converter that has a heating device. The heading device includes a first heating element and a second heating element that are arranged separately from one another upstream and downstream of an active catalysis region of the electric exhaust-gas catalytic converter. The disclosure also relates to a vehicle which includes the electric exhaust-gas catalytic converter and to a method for operating the electric exhaust-gas catalytic converter.

Abstract: A method for controlling a valve for directing an exhaust gas stream through an exhaust duct having an after treatment device and a bypass duct in an exhaust system of a vehicle is provided. The method includes receiving first sensor signals from a first sensor coupled downstream from the exhaust after treatment device, and processing the first sensor signals to determine a first temperature of an outlet exhaust gas stream. The method includes determining a bypass command based on whether the first temperature exceeds a first pre-defined threshold for the outlet exhaust gas stream. The method also includes outputting a control signal based on the determining of the bypass command to a valve coupled to the bypass duct and the exhaust pipe upstream of the after treatment device to move the valve between a first state and a second state.

Abstract: A reductant delivery system for an engine system. The engine system includes an engine having an exhaust conduit and a turbocharger with a compressor. The reductant delivery system having an injector, a storage system, a sensor and a controller. The injector is configured to inject a reductant into the exhaust conduit. The storage system stores the reductant and is configured to receive pressurized air from the compressor. The sensor is configured to determine a pressure of the pressurized air in the storage system. The controller is in communication with the sensor and is configured to increase a power output of the engine in response to the pressure being below a desired pressure.

Abstract: An injection module (10) for injecting a reducing agent into the exhaust system (22) of an internal combustion engine (2) has at least two outlet openings (12) for discharging at least one reducing agent primary jet (13), the outlet openings (12) being designed in such a way that that the reducing agent primary jets (13) exiting the outlet openings (12) collide and create a spray mist (11) in the exhaust system (22).

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for treatment of an exhaust stream that comprises nitrogen oxides NOx. The method comprises supplying a first additive to the exhaust stream as a first reduction of a first amount of nitrogen oxides NOx_1 reaching a first device, arranged to impact the first amount of nitrogen oxides NOx_1. The method also comprises supplying a second additive to the exhaust stream, which is used as a second reduction of a second amount of nitrogen oxides NOx_2 reaching a second device, arranged to reduce the second amount of nitrogen oxides NOx_2. At least one of the first supply and the second supply is controlled, based on a total ability for the first device to provide the first reduction, and for the second device to provide the second reduction, so that a required total reduction on the nitrogen oxides NOx in the exhaust stream is provided.

Abstract: An exhaust treatment system comprising: a first oxidation catalyst to oxidize nitrogen- and/or hydrocarbon compounds in an exhaust stream; a first dosage device downstream of said first oxidation catalyst to supply a first additive into said exhaust stream; a first reduction catalyst device, arranged downstream of said first dosage device, including a slip-catalyst primarily for reduction of nitrogen oxides (NOx), and secondarily for oxidation of additive; a second oxidation catalyst arranged downstream of said first reduction catalyst; a particulate filter arranged downstream of said oxidation catalyst; a second dosage device, arranged downstream of said particulate filter to supply a second additive into said exhaust stream; and a second reduction catalyst device, arranged downstream of said second dosage device for reduction of nitrogen oxides in said exhaust stream, with the use of at least one of said first and said second additive.

Abstract: An exhaust treatment system comprising: a first dosage device to supply a first additive into an exhaust stream; a first reduction catalyst device downstream of said first dosage device, including a slip-catalyst primarily for reduction of nitrogen oxides (NOx) through the use of the additive, and secondarily for oxidation of additive; an oxidation catalyst downstream of said first reduction catalyst device; a particulate filter downstream of said oxidation catalyst; a second dosage device downstream of said particulate filter to supply a second additive into said exhaust stream; a second reduction catalyst device downstream of said second dosage device for a reduction of nitrogen oxides in said exhaust stream using at least one of said first and said second additive.

Abstract: A mixer assembly for mixing an injected reductant with an exhaust gas output from a combustion engine includes an outer housing, a tubular inner housing, and an injector. The outer housing includes an outer wall defining an exhaust gas passageway that can receive exhaust gas. The inner housing is disposed within the outer housing and includes a longitudinal axis, a first end, a peripheral wall, and an outlet. The peripheral wall is at least partially formed by wire mesh. The outlet is disposed at a second end of the inner housing opposite the first end of the inner housing. The injector is fixed to the inner or outer housing to dose the reductant into the interior of the inner housing. The wire mesh includes openings to receive at least a portion of the exhaust gas. The outlet of the inner housing discharges a mixture of exhaust gas and reductant.

Abstract: An exhaust system for a work vehicle includes a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) mixer configured to be disposed within an interior of an SCR housing. The SCR mixer includes a mixer body configured to receive a flow of an exhaust solution that includes a mixture of exhaust and diesel exhaust fluid through an inlet of the mixer body along a longitudinal axis. The SCR mixer also includes multiple outlets disposed only in a central portion of the mixer body. Further, the multiple outlets extend about the longitudinal axis and are configured to direct the flow of the exhaust solution out of the mixer body to the interior of the SCR housing. In addition, the central portion is positioned between the inlet and an end of the mixer body along the longitudinal axis, and extends approximately 70 percent or less of a longitudinal extent of the mixer body.

Abstract: A mixer assembly for mixing an injected reductant with an exhaust gas output from a combustion engine comprises a mixer housing including a wall defining an exhaust passageway having a longitudinal axis. A tubular swirling device housing extends along a first axis substantially transverse to the longitudinal axis. The tubular swirling device includes a plurality of openings through which exhaust gas enters. The exhaust gas within the tubular swirling device swirls about the first axis and exits at an outlet end of the tubular swirling device. A mixing plate is positioned immediately downstream of the tubular swirling device. The mixing plate swirls the exhaust about a second axis extending parallel to the longitudinal axis.

Abstract: An engine device includes an engine, an exhaust gas purification device arranged on an exhaust path of the engine, and an engine control device that controls drive of the engine. The engine control device executes a plurality of regeneration controls with which particulate matter accumulated in the exhaust gas purification device is combusted and removed. As the plurality of regeneration controls, at least non-work regeneration control, in which an exhaust gas temperature is raised in combination of post-injection and a predetermined high rotational speed, is included. The engine control device drives the engine so as to solely combust and remove the particulate matter in the non-work regeneration control and compulsorily executes isochronous control in which a rotational speed of the engine is maintained constant, irrespective of variation in load of the engine.

Abstract: A method for monitoring particulate filter disposed in an exhaust aftertreatment system of an internal combustion engine includes determining, via a differential pressure sensor, a pressure differential across the particulate filter, and determining an initial parameter associated with soot loading on the particulate filter based upon the pressure differential. A first adjustment to the soot loading is determined based upon a passive regeneration effect, a second adjustment to the soot loading is determined based upon an off-engine temperature effect, and a third adjustment to the soot loading is determined based upon occurrence of an interrupted regeneration event. A final parameter associated with soot loading on the particulate filter is determined based upon the initial parameter and the first, second and third adjustments.

Abstract: A system can include an engine, an aftertreatment system with a particulate filter, and a controller. The controller is configured to compare a time value since a last delta pressure soot load estimate process to a predetermined time threshold. Responsive to the time value being greater than or equal to the predetermined time threshold, the controller decreases a flow threshold value to a lower flow threshold value. If the flow amount is greater than or equal to the lower flow threshold value, then the controller activates a delta pressure soot load estimation process. A combined soot load estimate is then calculated using a delta pressure soot load estimation of the delta pressure soot load estimate process responsive to the lower flow threshold value.

Abstract: A control device of an exhaust sensor comprises a cell temperature detecting part detecting a temperature of the electrochemical cell, a heater control part controlling the heater so that a temperature of the electrochemical cell becomes the target temperature, and a judging part judging whether a water repellency of the protective layer is falling. The judging part judges that the water repellency of the protective layer is falling if a condition for judging abnormality is satisfied. The condition for judging abnormality includes a temperature of the electrochemical cell detected by the cell temperature detecting part falling from the target temperature and a speed of fall of the temperature being faster than a speed of fall of the temperature of the electrochemical cell when the heater is turned off.

Abstract: Provided is an exhaust apparatus for a vehicle, being capable of performing a normal detection of a nitrogen oxide (NOx) concentration in exhaust gas without involving increase in the size and the cost. The exhaust apparatus includes an exhaust pipe having an upstream end connected to an aftertreatment device and a downstream end enclosing an exhaust port at a position higher than the upstream end, a NOx sensor to be retained in the exhaust pipe, and a water barrier wall provided inside the exhaust pipe. The water barrier wall has a shape to form a shield between the NOx sensor and the exhaust port while leaving a gas inlet that allows the exhaust gas to flow to the NOx sensor from the aftertreatment device through the gas inlet.

Abstract: An exhaust aftertreatment system for treating exhaust flow from an internal combustion engine, and associated method, allows for independent control of exhaust flow through plural exhaust legs of the exhaust aftertreatment system. The independent control of exhaust flow is carried out by adjusting a valve positioned in each the exhaust legs based on a value of a signal generated by a flow measurement device positioned along at least one of the exhaust legs. The valves can be adjusted to force a target flow in a exhaust leg, relative flow among exhaust legs, exhaust temperature in an exhaust leg, exhaust backpressure and/or imbalance within the exhaust legs.

Abstract: An improved engine exhaust extractor improves internal combustion engine performance and efficiency. The exhaust extractor includes coaxial inner and outer tubes separating a flow into an inner flow inside the inner tube and an outer flow between the tubes and merging near the exhaust extractor outlet. Helically oriented vanes extend radially from an outer face of the inner tube and reliefs are cut into the inner tube to allow gasses to flow to the outer flow. The inner tube is held in place by end pieces connecting the inner tube to the outer tube. The end pieces include fan blades with wing shaped cross-sections to increase the velocity of exhaust gasses flowing through the exhaust extractor. The fan-like supports and helically oriented vanes cause the outer flow to rotate about a central axis. The exhaust extractor is constructed from only six parts requiring only two welds.

Abstract: A fan is suitable for an air-guiding system of an outboard motor including an internal combustion engine and a covering hood bounding an engine interior space. The engine drives the fan, which is connected to an upright shaft journal projecting beyond an upper side of a housing of the engine. The covering hood has air flow openings, and the fan influences the air flows in the covering hood interior space. A flywheel, fixedly attached to the upright shaft journal, carries a fan wheel of the fan. The fan wheel is set in place from above, and the flywheel carries the fan wheel for conjoint rotation. Airflows enter the interior space via an inlet opening and a first conducting device, and the airflows, under the action of the fan, act upon at least parts of surfaces of the internal combustion engine and the auxiliary units to cool the internal combustion engine.

Abstract: An engine-driven generator includes a fuel tank disposed in front of a cooling fan, an air guide space defined between the fuel tank and the cooling fan, an inverter disposed beside a lateral side part of the air guide space, and an air shroud provided between the inverter and the air guide space. The fuel tank is vertically elongated to face a cylinder block of a vertical engine. A storage space having the inverter disposed therein is connected to the air guide space via the air shroud.

Abstract: The cooling and lubricating system is provided for a piston sealing device for a piston, which includes a fixed skirt and a sliding skirt joined together by an interskirt mechanical connection to axially compress a continuous extensible segment under the action of a sliding skirt spring. The system adds to the device a sliding skirt thrust ring so as to insert between the fixed skirt and the continuous extensible segment a flow valve traversed by the interskirt mechanical connection. The valve is held at rest away from the fixed skirt by a valve return spring on the one hand, and including a flow calibration orifice on the other hand.

Abstract: A method for operating an engine system in an internal combustion engine comprising during a first operating condition, circulating coolant through a coolant jacket in a turbine housing at least partially enclosing a turbine rotor and during a second operating condition, replacing coolant in the coolant jacket with air from a venting reservoir.

Abstract: A thermal management system includes an electric coolant pump, power source, and controller. The pump is in fluid communication with a heat source and a radiator, and has pump sensors for determining a pump voltage, speed, and current. The battery energizes the sensors. The controller receives the voltage, speed, and current from the sensors, determines a performance of the pump across multiple operating regions, calculates a numeric state of health (SOH) quantifying degradation severity for each of a plurality of pump characteristics across the regions, and executes a control action when the calculated numeric SOH for any region is less than a calibrated SOH threshold. The pump characteristics include pump circuit, leaking/clogging, bearing, and motor statuses. A vehicle includes an engine or other heat source, a radiator; and the thermal management system. The controller may execute a prognostic method for the electric coolant pump in the vehicle.

Abstract: A fluid control valve includes: a housing having an inflow port and an outflow port of a fluid; a first magnetic body in which a circulation hole is provided; a solenoid causing a magnetic flux to flow through the first magnetic body; a second magnetic body attracted to the first magnetic body by flowing of the magnetic flux generated from the solenoid to abut against a peripheral portion of the circulation hole to close the circulation hole; a biasing member biasing the second magnetic body in a direction of separating from the first magnetic body; and a stopper fixed to the housing on a side of the outflow port and preventing movement of the second magnetic body by a biasing force of the biasing member.

Abstract: A prechamber ignition device in an internal combustion engine is provided having a body piece formed of a first type of material and a tip piece formed of a second type of material. A distal end of the body piece has a cladding, which may be of the second type of material, for preventing corrosion of the first type of material from which the body piece is formed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a combustion chamber structure of an engine configured to inject fuel in a predetermined operation range in a period from a second half of a compression stroke until a first half of an expansion stroke to perform ignition after a compression top dead center. The combustion chamber structure includes: a piston including a cavity; a fuel injection valve provided at a middle portion of the piston; and a spark plug provided at a radially outer side of the middle portion of the piston and an upper side of the cavity. The cavity is formed by a curved surface having curvature that becomes larger as the curved surface extends toward the radially outer side. A tangential direction of an edge end portion of the curved surface intersects with a combustion chamber ceiling radially outward of the spark plug.

Abstract: An air intake device includes: an air intake port; and a valve that includes an elastically deformable seal portion disposed in Ha side end portion, and switches between flow paths of the air intake port by being turned around a turning shaft, wherein the side end portion of the valve is provided with a curved side end portion that extends from one end portion side to the other end portion side along an extension direction of the turning shaft while being curved.

Abstract: A charge air cooler (CAC) includes a first header including a first interior portion, a second header spaced from the first header. The second header includes a second interior portion. At least one conduit extends between the first header and the second header. The at least one conduit includes a first end fluidically connected to the first interior portion, a second end fluidically connected to the second interior portion, and an intermediate portion extending therebetween. A heating system is arranged in a heat exchange relationship with the at least one conduit. The heating system is selectively operable to increase a temperature of fluids passing through the at least one conduit into one of the first and second headers.

Abstract: A compact flow control valve capable of providing long service life in a very hostile environment. The valve is a mono or dual coaxial slider valve capable of controlling two different functions sequentially, at least one of the functions being controlled progressively. The flow control valve controls the fluid connection between two volutes (6, 7) of a turbine housing (2) of a turbocharger as well as the fluid connection between the two volutes (6, 7) of the turbine housing (2) of the turbocharger and a waste gate port (9).

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for controlling a boosted engine system, having a turbocharger and a charge air cooler, to limit overheating of a compressor outlet. In one example, a method includes predicting an engine torque profile based on current and future engine operating conditions. The method then models a compressor outlet temperature profile and reduces engine torque output to limit overheating of the compressor outlet.