Vanes And Blade In Same Radial Plane Patents (Class 415/164)
  • Patent number: 11913379
    Abstract: An entryway system includes a divided volute turbocharger having variable turbine geometry (VTG). The turbocharger includes a turbine housing, first and second volutes separated by a wall having a first and second tongue, and a turbine housing outlet. The system also includes a turbine wheel disposed in the turbine housing and a vane ring disposed in the turbine housing between the turbine wheel and the volutes. The system includes design modifications of one or more of the VTG components and/or locations of such components to manipulate the aerodynamic forces and/or subsequent mechanical loads in the VTG mechanism of the entryway system to mitigate VTG component wear during normal usage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventors: Abhishek Biswas, John Robert Zagone, Paul Troxler, Craig Andrew Colont
  • Patent number: 11808162
    Abstract: A turbine housing for an exhaust turbocharger is configured for receiving a turbine wheel rotatable about an axis. The housing includes an exhaust gas inlet, an exhaust gas outlet pointing in an outlet direction, and a single-flow, spiral exhaust gas routing. The routing has a volute and a volute outlet gap configured so that exhaust gas flows from the volute to the wheel. The routing is fluidically connected to the inlet and is defined by an internal wall of the housing. The volute has a portion which encircles the axis and has a convexity of the internal wall. The convexity, counter to the outlet direction, extends beyond the volute outlet gap. Further, sectional faces, through which the axis runs, each have a volute contour with a straight linear portion. The linear portion, conjointly with the axis, defines an angle facing the outlet that is less than or equal to 90°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventors: Tim Weiland, Alexander Umlauff
  • Patent number: 11773749
    Abstract: A method and system are provided for repairing a nozzle ring having a defect adjacent a transition between a ring plate and an inner skirt of the nozzle ring, comprising: forming at least one cut to detach at least one of a portion of the inner skirt, a portion of the transition, and a portion of the ring plate, thereby forming a joint surface and removing at least a portion of the defect; providing a replacement ring including replacement components for the detached at least one of a portion of the inner skirt, a portion of the transition, and a portion of the ring plate; and attaching the replacement ring to the nozzle ring at the joint surface using one of brazing or welding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: CUMMINS INC.
    Inventors: Nikhil Doiphode, Todd M. Wieland
  • Patent number: 11739655
    Abstract: A variable nozzle device includes: a nozzle mount; a plurality of nozzle vanes; a drive ring being having a plurality of receiving portions disposed at different positions along a circumferential direction; and a plurality of lever plates each having a fixed portion to be fixed to corresponding one of the plurality of nozzle vanes and an engaging portion to be engaged with corresponding one of the plurality of receiving portions of the drive ring. The receiving portions include a first-side guide surface and a second-side guide surface. The engaging portions each include a first-side roll surface which is to be in contact with the first-side guide surface and a second-side roll surface which is to be in contact with the second-side guide surface. The first-side roll surface includes a lever-plate-side linear portion extending linearly in at least a part of a range which is to be in contact with the first-side guide surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Jain Sambhav, Yosuke Danmoto, Youji Akiyama
  • Patent number: 11713709
    Abstract: A nozzle device according to some embodiments includes an annular nozzle plate, an annular nozzle mount defining a nozzle flow passage between the nozzle mount and one surface of the nozzle plate, at least one nozzle support coupling the nozzle plate and the nozzle mount, and fixed to at least the nozzle plate by caulking, and at least one nozzle vane supported between the nozzle plate and the nozzle mount. The nozzle plate has a through hole into which an end portion of the at least one nozzle support is inserted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Keigo Sakamoto, Eigo Katou, Tsuyoshi Sakurai, Shigeyoshi Sakuma, Yosuke Dammoto, Yoji Akiyama
  • Patent number: 11668230
    Abstract: An annular disk comprises a front surface, a rear surface, an outer surface, and an inner surface. The front surface has a front opening within a front plane. The rear surface has a rear opening within a rear plane. The rear opening, which has a diameter that is smaller than a diameter of the front opening, communicates with the front opening to define a bore for guiding an exhaust stream flowing from a turbocharger to an exhaust outlet. The outer surface connects the front surface to the rear surface and includes an outer angled portion, an outer radial portion, and an outer axial portion. The inner surface includes an inner angled portion, an inner axial portion, and an inner radial portion extending between the inner angled portion and the inner axial portion. The inner radial portion is configured to obstruct a portion of the exhaust stream to increase back pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Luke Robinson, Jonathan P. Kilkenny, Nathan Atterberry
  • Patent number: 11649798
    Abstract: A reversible pump-turbine and also a guide vane for a reversible pump-turbine with a guide vane body, a pivot for rotating the guide vane body around an axis of rotation and two end faces. The guide vane body has a turbine leading edge facing the turbine flow and a turbine trailing edge facing away from the turbine flow, where the individual guide vanes come into contact with one another along closing edges when the wicket gate is closed, where the guide vanes each have two flow-guiding surfaces on either side of the axis of rotation and opposite one another that are limited by the two end faces. These two flow-guiding surfaces have different flow profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: ANDRITZ AG
    Inventor: Markus Lenarcic
  • Patent number: 11608809
    Abstract: A startup method of a Francis turbine according to an embodiment includes: a bypass-valve opening step of opening the bypass valve with the inlet valve closed; an inlet-valve opening step of opening the inlet valve after the bypass-valve opening step; and a first rotation-speed increasing step of increasing a rotation speed of the runner by opening the guide vane at an opening that is 50% or more of a maximum opening before a flow velocity of a swirling flow flowing around the runner reaches 90 m/sec.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiko Nakazono, Takero Mukai, Yoshitaka Arihara
  • Patent number: 11578612
    Abstract: The invention relates to a distributor for a turbomachine radial turbine, comprising an annular grill (26) extending about a central axis (10) and comprising a plurality of variable-pitch blades (31), defining between them an air passage cross section, characterized in that each blade is rotatably mounted about a pivot shaft (32), itself moveable in a translation direction, comprising at least one radial component, such that said blade may, upon actuation of control means (40), be pivoted about the pivot shaft and/or moved in relation to the central axis in said translation direction so as to be able to modify the air passage cross section by respectively controlling the metal angle (?3) and the radial spacing (?R).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: LIEBHERR-AEROSPACE TOULOUSE SAS
    Inventors: Sandrine Cros, Mathieu Roumeas, James Fouragnan, Pierre-Thomas Lauriau, Nicolas Binder
  • Patent number: 11572887
    Abstract: A compressor has a rotor. The rotor includes a plurality of impellers that include a disk having a solid structure having a buried center, and are adjacent to each other in an axial direction, and a plurality of bolts for fixing the plurality of impellers together. The disk has a disk surface facing the axial direction and a bolt hole penetrating the disk at a position deviated outward from an axis in a radial direction. The disk surface includes a contact surface of which at least a part is located outside the bolt hole in the radial direction, and a non-contact surface which is a region inside the contact surface in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideki Nagao
  • Patent number: 11566597
    Abstract: A startup method of a Francis turbine according to an embodiment includes: a first rotation-speed increasing step in which a rotation speed of the runner is increased by opening the guide vane at a first opening; a second rotation-speed increasing step in which the increase in the rotation speed of the runner is accelerated by opening the guide vane at a second opening that is larger than the first opening after the first rotation-speed increasing step; and a rotation-speed regulating step in which the rotation speed of the runner is regulated to a rated rotation speed by opening the guide vane at a no-load opening after the second rotation-speed increasing step. The first opening is an opening that is half or less than the no-load opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiko Nakazono, Ryosuke Shima
  • Patent number: 11064690
    Abstract: The invention relates to a sprayer of the type comprising a turbine that generates an air current, a nozzle that channels the air current and an outlet of this current to the outside, carrying with it the product dosed by a series of nozzles arranged in the area of influence of the air current, the sprayer being special in that both the air outlet opening and the turbine can be configured and act in a coordinated manner to obtain the desired air flow for each type of crop and spray application, where the optimum air flow for each spray application and the configuration of the turbine and opening are determined by the actual sprayer by means of a processor and auxiliary means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Pulverizadores Fede, S.L.
    Inventors: Federico Pérez Salvador, Lars Torsten Berger
  • Patent number: 10934883
    Abstract: A vane assembly includes a fixed airfoil portion that extends between a radially inner platform and radially outer platform and has a pressure side and a suction side. A rotatable airfoil portion is located aft of the fixed airfoil portion and has a pressure side and a suction side. A cover extends from the pressure side of the fixed airfoil portion to the pressure side of the rotatable airfoil portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES
    Inventors: David M. Dyer, Scott Gammons
  • Patent number: 10927702
    Abstract: A turbocharger or turbocharger component is disclosed herein. The turbocharger or turbocharger component may comprise an annular unison ring, and a first nozzle ring having an annular groove. The annular unison ring may be rotatably disposed in the annular groove. A partial circular recess may be disposed in an outer annular nozzle ring surface of the first nozzle ring adjacent to the annular groove. A unison crank having a circular body may be rotatably disposed in the partial circular recess. A plurality of vane assemblies may be rotatably disposed in a respective vane aperture within the first nozzle ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Savant Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Bret J. Park
  • Patent number: 10794200
    Abstract: A vane stage includes a ringcase extending circumferentially about a center axis of the vane stage. The ringcase extends completely about the center axis to form a first ring. An inner shroud extends circumferentially about the center axis of the vane stage. The inner shroud extends completely about the center axis to form a second ring positioned radially within the ringcase relative the center axis. A plurality of stationary half vanes extend radially between the ringcase and the inner shroud, and are circumferentially spaced about the center axis. The plurality of stationary half vanes are integral with the ringcase and the inner shroud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Mark E. Simonds
  • Patent number: 10781707
    Abstract: A vane stage includes a ringcase extending circumferentially about a center axis of the vane stage. The ringcase extends completely about the center axis to form a first ring. An inner shroud extends circumferentially about the center axis of the vane stage. The inner shroud extends completely about the center axis to form a second ring positioned radially within the ringcase relative the center axis. A plurality of stationary half vanes extend radially between the ringcase and the inner shroud, and are circumferentially spaced about the center axis. The plurality of stationary half vanes are integral with the ringcase and the inner shroud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: David M. Dyer, Zachary J. Jeske, Michael Ronan, Matthew E. Bintz, John P. Tirone, Scott Gammons, Michael C. Firnhaber, Mark E. Simonds
  • Patent number: 10774732
    Abstract: An exhaust-gas turbocharger for an internal combustion engine includes an intake duct for air, an exhaust-gas duct, a turbine arranged in the exhaust-gas duct, and a compressor impeller arranged in the intake duct, which turbine and compressor impeller are both arranged on a common shaft, wherein the exhaust-gas duct has a spiral housing which coaxially surrounds the turbine, and wherein, between the spiral housing and the turbine, a ring-shaped gap is provided through which the exhaust-gas flow flows circumferentially to the turbine, and wherein, in the ring-shaped gap, guide vanes are arranged which are rotatable about an adjustment axis by an adjustment mechanism for controlling the flow resistance. To compensate thermal expansions and shrinkages of the guide vanes under different operating conditions, the adjustment mechanism additionally has a displacement mechanism for displacing the guide vanes in the ring-shaped gap. The displacement mechanism is directly coupled to the adjustment mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Jan Ehrhard, Ralf Böning
  • Patent number: 10662871
    Abstract: Provided is a nozzle drive mechanism, including: a bearing having a bearing hole; a drive shaft which is axially supported in the bearing hole so as to be rotatable; a drive lever including: an insertion portion into which another end portion (end portion) of the drive shaft protruding from the bearing hole is inserted; and a coupling portion, which is positioned on the bearing side with respect to a center of the drive shaft in an axial direction, and projects outward in a radial direction of the drive shaft from the insertion portion; a link pin coupled to the coupling portion; and a rod member, which is connected to the link pin, is positioned on a side opposite to the bearing with respect to the coupling portion, and is provided to an actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Takao Asakawa, Kenichi Segawa, Takahiro Kobayashi, Ryota Sakisaka, Kazuko Takeuchi, Kenji Bunno
  • Patent number: 10648360
    Abstract: A turbocharger can include a center housing; a bearing disposed in a through bore of the center housing where the through bore of the center housing defines a longitudinal axis; a shaft rotatably supported by the bearing; a compressor wheel operatively coupled to the shaft; a turbine wheel operatively coupled to the shaft; and a turbine housing assembly operatively coupled to the center housing where the turbine housing assembly includes: a turbine housing; and a cartridge that includes a nozzle wall component and a plate component that are spaced axially by spacers, where the nozzle wall component includes spacer bores for the spacers and where the nozzle wall component has a non-circular outer perimeter defined at least in part by arcs where adjacent arcs intersect at intersection points, and where each of the intersection points is radially outwardly from a respective one of the spacer bores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Garrett Transportation I Inc.
    Inventors: Jan Musil, Jakub Fajt, Jan Kohoutek, Jan Machalinek
  • Patent number: 10563536
    Abstract: There is provided a variable nozzle mechanism that can suppress wear. The variable nozzle mechanism includes a plurality of nozzle vanes, a plurality of arms, and a unison ring. The plurality of nozzle vanes are provided in the nozzle path. The plurality of arms each have a pivoted end and a free end, and the pivoted end is integrally coupled with the nozzle vane by means of a pivot. The unison ring is provided with a plurality of grooves. Each groove is engaged with the respective free end of the arm. The free end of the arm has a closing-side contact surface and an opening-side contact surface each in contact with a respective one of paired walls forming the groove of the unison ring. The closing-side contact surface has a curvature different between a side closer to the pivot and a side farther away from the pivot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventor: Kenta Akimoto
  • Patent number: 10378434
    Abstract: A variable turbine geometry turbine turbocharger (1) includes a vane ring assembly (29) configured to control flow of exhaust gas to a turbine wheel (12), and retainers (60, 160) that are used to secure the vane ring assembly (29) to the bearing housing (16) in a desired axial and radial position and angular orientation relative to the bearing housing (16). In some embodiments, the vane ring assembly (29) is spring biased toward an axially outward position relative to the bearing housing (16), and the retainers (60, 160) retain the vane (30) ring in the desired position against the spring bias.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventors: Elias Alan Morgan, Greg Williams
  • Patent number: 10323621
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a wind power generation tower. The wind power generation tower, according to various embodiments of the present invention, comprises: a wind collection unit and an energy conversion unit, wherein wind power generation can be implemented by accelerating wind speed even for low speed wind and simultaneously increasing the utilization efficiency of the wind which rotates blades, thereby improving overall power generation efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: ODIN ENERGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Soo Yun Song
  • Patent number: 10066498
    Abstract: A turbine for a supercharging device of an internal combustion engine may include a turbine wheel which is rotatably arranged about an axis of rotation in a turbine housing. A radial inflow channel may be arranged coaxially to the turbine wheel, which leads to a radial inlet region of the turbine wheel. The inflow channel may be axially bounded on one side by a blade carrier and axially bounded on the other side by a cover disc. A plurality of guide blades may be pivotably arranged on the blade carrier, and a plurality of spacer elements may axially project from the blade carrier. An axial outflow channel may be arranged coaxially to the turbine wheel, which leads from the inlet region to an axial outlet region of the turbine wheel, which may be radially bounded by an inner contour formed complementary to an outer contour of the rotating turbine wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Bosch Mahle Turbo Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Dirk Naunheim
  • Patent number: 9945287
    Abstract: A turbocharger (10) includes a housing (12, 14, 16) and an actuating mechanism (46) for actuating a device (40) within the housing (12, 14, 16). A pivot shaft (42) has an inside end (48) inside the housing (12, 14, 16) and an outside end (82) outside the housing (12, 14, 16). The pivot shaft (42) is rotatably mounted in a bore (64) in the housing (12, 14, 16) for transmitting an actuating movement from outside the housing (12, 14, 16) to the actuating mechanism (46). A bushing (62) is disposed in the bore (64). The bushing (62) includes an asymmetric portion (68) that extends inside the housing (12, 14, 16) to support the inside end (48) of the pivot shaft (42).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventor: Donald Michael Kennedy
  • Patent number: 9938958
    Abstract: A vertical axis wind and hydraulic turbine with flow control including a regular hexagonal structure of radius R, parallelepiped-shaped, inside which a rotor rotates with three or more vanes on a vertical axis which is located in the center of the hexagon as seen from above, wherein the vanes when rotating generate a circle of radius Rt, further including six articulated deflector vanes that grab and concentrate the flow of air or liquid entering the rotor vanes, from the wind or liquid current entry side to the turbine and diffuse the flow of air or liquid exiting from the rotor vanes, from the side opposite to the wind or liquid entry side to the turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Inventor: Humberto Antonio Rubio
  • Patent number: 9926938
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takao Yokoyama, Katsuyuki Osako, Isao Tomita, Yasuaki Jinnai, Masaki Tojo, Satomi Nagae
  • Patent number: 9873515
    Abstract: A turbine nozzle for an air cycle machine includes a disk having a central axis and a plurality of airfoils extending from a surface of the disk. The plurality of airfoils is arranged radially about the disk section to direct a flow of a fluid passing thereby. A relief cut adjacent the airfoils, wherein the relief cut provides a channel in a least a portion of the surface of the disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Craig M. Beers, Darryl A. Colson
  • Patent number: 9845770
    Abstract: An asymmetric double-entry turbine is provided with a turbine housing that includes a first volute, a second volute and a turbine receiving bore. The first volute has a first exhaust gas inlet and a first exhaust gas outlet. The second volute has a second exhaust gas inlet and a second exhaust gas outlet. The turbine receiving bore is in fluid communication with the first exhaust gas outlet and the second exhaust gas outlet for conducting a flow of exhaust gas from the first exhaust gas outlet and the second exhaust gas outlet out in an axial direction. The first exhaust gas outlet has an angular opening amount of more than 180 degrees around the turbine receiving bore. The second exhaust gas outlet has an angular opening amount of less than 180 degrees around the turbine receiving bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Imperial Innovations Limited
    Inventors: Ricardo Martinez-Botas, Masakazu Sakai
  • Patent number: 9732633
    Abstract: A turbocharger including a turbine housing including a gas inlet passage and a turbine wheel arranged in the turbine housing. A bearing housing is connected to the turbine housing. A nozzle ring is disposed around the turbine wheel and a shroud is arranged in surrounding relation to at least a portion of the turbine wheel. The shroud is connected to the nozzle ring and the nozzle ring and shroud are connected to a heat shield. The heat shield is secured to the bearing housing by a plurality of cross key pins, each cross key pin being inserted in a radially extending first passage in the heat shield and a complementary radially extending second passage in the bearing housing. The first passages and second passages are symmetrically arranged in a circular pattern about a rotational axis of the turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Richard E. Annati, Matthew J. Frick
  • Patent number: 9664060
    Abstract: A variable geometry system turbocharger includes a variable nozzle unit, which is disposed in a turbine housing by being sandwiched between the turbine housing and a bearing housing, and which adjusts a passage area for the exhaust gas to be supplied to a turbine impeller. The bearing housing includes a container recessed portion which contains a link mechanism of the variable nozzle unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Inoue, Takao Asakawa, Kenichi Segawa
  • Patent number: 9644529
    Abstract: A supercharged internal combustion engine may include a twin-flow turbine with variable vane geometry. One example method to operate the device permits optimized operation of the internal combustion engine at low exhaust gas flow rates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Vanco Smiljanovski, Helmut Matthias Kindl, Uwe Spaeder, Rob Stalman
  • Patent number: 9568018
    Abstract: A cover plate for use in a cabin air compressor is a generally cylindrical body with 19 holes extending through the body and an inner bore defining an inner diameter centered on a center axis. The body has a thickness in a dimension measured perpendicular to the central axis. The inner diameter is 14.840 inches (37.693 centimeters) plus/minus .005 inch (0.013 centimeter). A diffusor housing, a cabin air compressor and a method of replacing a cover plate are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: David A. Dorman, Craig M. Beers, Peter A. Wierzbowski
  • Patent number: 9388732
    Abstract: The propensity for gas and soot leakage around a shaft, which extends through a bore which connects volumes of differing pressures, e.g., a turbocharger turbine housing and the ambient air, is minimized with the addition of a pair of seal rings axially biased by a spring to provide a continuous gas and soot seal. The spring may bias the seal rings apart from each other or towards each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy House, Paul Diemer
  • Patent number: 9284951
    Abstract: A solar-energy heat power-generating system and thermoelectric conversion device thereof, the thermoelectric conversion device comprising a power generator (5), an air compressor, a turbine and an intermediate body (12) fixedly connected between the air compressor and the turbine; the interior of the intermediate body (12) is rotatably connected to a transmission shaft (28); the transmission shaft (28) is fixedly connected to the rotating shaft of the power generator (5); the air compressor impeller (7) of the air compressor and the turbine impeller (18) of the turbine are both installed on the transmission shaft (28); the power generator (5) is also connected to a conducting wire (3) for inputting current; the solar-energy heat power-generating system comprises a heat collector and the thermoelectric conversion device; the air compressor of the thermoelectric conversion device is located upstream of the heat collector, and the turbine is located downstream of the heat collector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Xiangtan Electric Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuhui Wang, Minhui Wang, Yuelei Zhang, Mi Mou, Yueying Li, Yingzhao Ma
  • Patent number: 9261109
    Abstract: A turbine housing includes an outer housing member, which has a proximal housing portion and a distal housing portion, and an inner housing member, which is provided inside the outer housing member and has a shroud surface that faces a turbine wheel in an axial direction. A distal portion of the inner housing member serves as a slide portion slidable in the axial direction. Further, a proximal portion of the inner housing member is fixed to the proximal housing portion at a part closer to a distal side than a proximal portion of the proximal housing portion. Further, a scroll portion is formed by the inner housing member and a proximal scroll portion of the proximal housing portion located closer to a proximal side than the inner housing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Osamu Maeda, Kouji Nagai, Tomoyuki Isogai, Hiroki Matsui, Masanori Saeki
  • Patent number: 9222365
    Abstract: A bearing arrangement for supporting a shaft in a turbocharger housing. The bearing arrangement includes a sleeve element and the sleeve element is formed with a flange section at each end for fastening the bearing arrangement in the turbocharger housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Ralf Boening, Dirk Frankenstein
  • Patent number: 8992166
    Abstract: The invention relates to a turbocharger (1) with variable turbine geometry (VTG), having a turbine housing (2) with a supply duct (9) for exhaust gases, having a turbine rotor (4) which is rotatably mounted in the turbine housing (2); and having a guide grate (18), which surrounds the turbine rotor (4) radially at the outside, which has a blade bearing ring (6), which has a multiplicity of guide blades (7) which have in each case one blade shaft mounted in the blade bearing ring (6), which has an adjusting ring (5) which is operatively connected to the guide blades (7) by means of associated blade levers (20) fastened to the blade shafts (8) at one of their ends, with each blade lever (20) having, at the other end, a lever head (23) which can be placed in engagement with an associated engagement recess (24) of the adjusting ring (5), and which has a stop (25) at least for setting the minimum throughflow through the nozzle cross sections formed by the guide blades (7), wherein the stop (25) is formed as a part
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas Ramb
  • Patent number: 8992164
    Abstract: The invention relates to a turbocharger (1) with variable turbine geometry (VTG), having a turbine housing (2) with a supply duct (9) for exhaust gases, having a turbine rotor (4) which is rotatably mounted in the turbine housing (2); and having a guide grate (18), which surrounds the turbine rotor (4) radially at the outside, which has a blade bearing ring (6), which has a multiplicity of guide blades (7) which have in each case one blade shaft (8) mounted in the blade bearing ring (6), which has an adjusting ring (5) which is operatively connected to the guide blades (7) by means of associated blade levers (20) fastened to the blade shafts (8) at one of their ends, with each blade lever (20) having, at the other end, a lever head (23) which can be placed in engagement with an associated engagement recess (24) of the adjusting ring (5), and which has a bearing arrangement (28) for fixing the adjusting ring (5) to the blade bearing ring (6), wherein the bearing arrangement (28) is formed as a plain bearing ar
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Ramb, Dietmar Metz
  • Patent number: 8979508
    Abstract: A variable-vane assembly for a turbocharger includes an annular nozzle ring supporting an array of rotatable vanes, an insert having a tubular portion sealingly received into the bore of the turbine housing and having a nozzle portion extending radially out from one end of the tubular portion and being axially spaced from the nozzle ring with the vanes therebetween, and an annular retainer ring disposed radially outward of the nozzle ring and extending generally radially inwardly. The nozzle ring's face is stepped, and a radially inner edge of the retainer ring engages the face of the nozzle ring radially outward of the step, the radially inner edge of the retainer ring having an axial thickness that is less than the step height such that a remaining portion of the step is presented to the exhaust gas flowing through the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Julien Mailfert, Nicolas Morand, Calogero Beltrami
  • Patent number: 8932008
    Abstract: A securing element includes a head section and a shank. The cross-section of the shank changes in the axial direction in such a way that, by taking into account a qualitative and/or quantitative predetermined bending torque profile in the shank, the cross-section has a substantially uniform bending stress profile in the shank in relation to a securing element with a constant shank cross-section. An exhaust gas turbocharger having variable turbine geometry includes a VTG-guide vane configuration having at least one such securing element and being secured to a housing component of the exhaust gas turbocharger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Boening, Dirk Frankenstein, Holger Faeth, Marc Hiller
  • Patent number: 8920114
    Abstract: A turbocharger (15) with variable turbine geometry having a blade bearing ring arrangement (1) which has a blade bearing ring (2) and a disk (3) which can be fixed to the blade bearing ring (2) to form a flow duct (4); having a spacer device (5) which is arranged between the blade bearing ring (2) and the disk (3) to set a defined width (B) of the flow duct (4), wherein the spacer device (5) is designed as a guide ring (6) which has spacer profiles (7) whose height (H) corresponds to the width (B) of the flow duct (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas Ramb
  • Patent number: 8915704
    Abstract: A variable-nozzle turbocharger includes a turbine housing and a center housing, and a generally annular nozzle ring and an array of vanes rotatably mounted to the nozzle ring such that the vanes can be pivoted about their axes for regulating exhaust gas flow to the turbine wheel. The vanes extend between the nozzle ring and an opposite wall of the nozzle. An axially floating vane sealing ring is disposed in an annular recess formed in the face of the nozzle ring adjacent proximal ends of the vanes. The vane sealing ring is urged by exhaust gas pressure differential toward the proximal ends of the vanes, and the vanes are thus urged toward the opposite nozzle wall so that distal ends of the vanes are close to or abutting the wall, resulting in a reduction or closing of the gaps at the proximal and distal ends of the vanes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Emmanuel Severin, Pierre Barthelet
  • Patent number: 8845279
    Abstract: A supercharger device, including, at least one of a variable turbine and a compressor geometry; a guide vane device arranged in a housing, wherein the guide vane device includes at least one vane mounting ring; at least one guide vane is at least one of rotatably mounted thereon the vane mounting ring and rotatably mounted therein the vane mounting ring; and an adjusting ring arranged coaxially to the vane mounting ring and mounted on the latter, which is rotated relative to the vane mounting ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Bosch Mahle Turbo Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Patric Hoecker, Florian Rentz, Ian Reynolds
  • Patent number: 8834104
    Abstract: A vane for a turbine assembly of a turbocharger includes an airfoil that has a pair of flow surfaces disposed between a hub end and a shroud end and a leading edge and a trailing edge where the airfoil further includes a non-zero sweep angle, a non-zero lean angle, a non-zero twist angle or any two or more combinations thereof. Various other examples of devices, assemblies, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Ashraf Mohamed, Scott MacKenzie, Shakeel Nasir, Mark Groskreutz
  • Patent number: 8820072
    Abstract: A diffuser plate for a centrifugal compressor includes an inner edge disposed at an inner diameter about a central axis; an outer edge disposed at an outer diameter, the outer edge displaced an axial distance from the inner edge; a deformable section that includes a substantially S-shaped cross-section, the deformable section disposed between the inner edge and the outer edge; and a spring constant for forced axial displacement of the outer edge with respect to the inner edge, the spring constant characterized, at least in part, by the deformable section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Giorgio Figura, Parikshit I Mulani, Poomkuzhimannil Zachariah John, Shajeev Surendran, T. G. Vijayan
  • Patent number: 8806867
    Abstract: A variable geometry exhaust turbocharger, wherein bolts which fasten a variable nozzle mechanism do not loosen. A variable geometry exhaust turbocharger, is provided with a turbine housing a turbine rotor, a turbine shaft a bearing for supporting the turbine shaft, a bearing housing, and a variable nozzle mechanism for regulating the flow of exhaust gas. The variable nozzle mechanism is provided with a nozzle, a nozzle mount, a lever plate, and a drive ring. A nozzle plate with which the tip of the nozzle makes contact is provided to an inner tube section of the turbine housing. A sleeve member is provided between the nozzle mount and the nozzle plate so as to be coaxial with a through-hole and a screw-through hole. The nozzle mount and the nozzle plate are connected together by fastening bolts passed through the through-hole, the sleeve member, and the screw through-hole, in that order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Hayashi, Yasuaki Jinnai, Masaki Tojo, Yoichi Ueno
  • Patent number: 8764389
    Abstract: A turbocharger with a variable turbine geometry device has one or two blade bearing rings. At least one or more fastening elements are provided for fastening the one or two blade bearing rings. The respective fastening element has at least one section formed with a knurl and/or at least one section formed with at least one or several notches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Boening, Dirk Frankenstein, Holger Faeth
  • Patent number: 8763393
    Abstract: A turbocharger includes a variable-nozzle assembly that includes an insert having a tubular portion received into a stepped bore of a turbine housing and having a nozzle portion extending radially out from one end of the tubular portion, and a generally annular nozzle ring axially spaced from the nozzle portion and an array of vanes rotatably mounted to the nozzle ring. Sealing of the interface between the tubular portion of the insert and the turbine housing is provided by a sealing ring formed as a generally annular body having a U- or V-shaped cross-section oriented such that an open side of the U- or V-shaped cross-section faces in a radial direction. The U- or V-shaped cross-section defines two opposing legs, one of the legs being engaged against an end face of the tubular portion of the insert and the other leg being engaged against an upstream-facing step surface of the turbine housing bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Emmanuel Severin, Pierre Barthelet, Lionel Toussaint, Olivier Millotte
  • Patent number: 8734093
    Abstract: A mechanism modulates a fluid flow in a diffuser flow path of a compressor diffuser, including: a shroud disposed on the diffuser flow path and having a cam and a driving wheel fixed base; a diffuser vane having a diffuser guide vane disposed in the diffuser flow path and a diffuser vane shaft fixedly disposed on the diffuser vane that penetrates from the diffuser flow path through the shroud; a driving ring sleeved on the cam and having a moving bar; a sliding block having one end connected with one end the diffuser vane shaft that penetrates through the shroud, and the other end sleeved on a sliding groove formed on the moving bar; a driving wheel disposed in the driving wheel fixed base and having a driving shaft connected to an actuator outside of the compressor; and a driving cable connected to the driving wheel and the driving ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Cheng-Chung Yen, Chung-Ping Chiang, Ching-Fu Chen, Yung-Lo Chow
  • Patent number: 8727711
    Abstract: A turbocharger with a variable turbine geometry, includes at least one rolling body element respectively disposed on an associated fixing element for the variable turbine geometry. A device for adjusting the variable turbine geometry can roll off on the respective rolling body element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Böning, Dirk Frankenstein, Holger Fäth, Marc Hiller