Engine equipped with turbo supercharger
An engine equipped with a turbo supercharger has an exhaust manifold coupled to an engine body, a turbo supercharger including a turbine housing demarcating a turbine chamber and a supply path of exhaust air, and a turbine insulator covering the same, and a manifold insulator covering at least the upper surface of the exhaust manifold and the side surface of the exhaust manifold on the turbo supercharger side. The exhaust manifold has a flange as a connection section with respect to the turbo supercharger. The manifold insulator has a cut-away section exposing a joining surface of the flange, and an opening caused by having the interval between the cut-away edge of the cut-away section and the outer peripheral edge of the flange be relatively wider in a predetermined position than in other positions.
1. An engine equipped with a turbo supercharger comprising:
a multi-cylinder engine body;
an exhaust manifold coupled to the engine body;
a turbo supercharger including a turbine chamber to which exhaust air is supplied from the exhaust manifold, a turbine housing demarcating the turbine chamber and a supply path of the exhaust air, and a turbine insulator covering the turbine housing; and
a manifold insulator covering at least the upper surface of the exhaust manifold and the side surface of the exhaust manifold on the turbo supercharger side,
wherein the exhaust manifold has a flange having a communication opening of an exhaust path with respect to the turbo supercharger and joined to the turbine housing,
wherein the manifold insulator has a cut-away section exposing a joining surface of the flange, and an opening caused by having the interval between the cut-away edge of the cut-away section and the outer peripheral edge of the flange be relatively wider in a predetermined position than in other positions, and
wherein the opening is opened toward a space between the turbine housing and the turbine insulator.
2. The engine according to claim 1 ,
wherein the predetermined position is the position upward of the flange.
3. The engine according to claim 1 ,
wherein the flange has, on the upper side of the flange, a small area section in which part of the outer peripheral edge of the flange is removed in the center direction or the down direction of the flange, and
wherein the opening is formed between the outer peripheral edge of the small area section and the cut-away edge of the cut-away section.
4. The engine according to claim 1 ,
wherein the manifold insulator is fastened and fixed to the exhaust manifold.
5. The engine according to claim 1 ,
wherein the manifold insulator has, in a cross section orthogonal to the multi-cylinder aligning direction, an inverted L shape having an erecting wall extending in the up-down direction along the side surface of the turbo supercharger, and an upper wall extending in the lateral direction from the erecting wall toward the upper side of the exhaust manifold, the opening being disposed in the erecting wall,
wherein the turbine insulator has, on the side opposite the engine body, an opposite wall extending in the up-down direction, and
wherein the opposite wall and the erecting wall are aligned in the up-down direction so that the opposite wall is located upward of the erecting wall, and the erecting wall is disposed on the side closer to the turbine housing with respect to the opposite wall.
6. The engine according to claim 2 ,
wherein the manifold insulator is fastened and fixed to the exhaust manifold.
7. The engine according to claim 3 ,
wherein the manifold insulator is fastened and fixed to the exhaust manifold.
8. The engine according to claim 2 ,
wherein the manifold insulator has, in a cross section orthogonal to the multi-cylinder aligning direction, an inverted L shape having an erecting wall extending in the up-down direction along the side surface of the turbo supercharger, and an upper wall extending in the lateral direction from the erecting wall toward the upper side of the exhaust manifold, the opening being disposed in the erecting wall,
wherein the turbine insulator has, on the side opposite the engine body, an opposite wall extending in the up-down direction, and
wherein the opposite wall and the erecting wall are aligned in the up-down direction so that the opposite wall is located upward of the erecting wall, and the erecting wall is disposed on the side closer to the turbine housing with respect to the opposite wall.
9. The engine according to claim 3 ,
wherein the manifold insulator has, in a cross section orthogonal to the multi-cylinder aligning direction, an inverted L shape having an erecting wall extending in the up-down direction along the side surface of the turbo supercharger, and an upper wall extending in the lateral direction from the erecting wall toward the upper side of the exhaust manifold, the opening being disposed in the erecting wall,
wherein the turbine insulator has, on the side opposite the engine body, an opposite wall extending in the up-down direction, and
wherein the opposite wall and the erecting wall are aligned in the up-down direction so that the opposite wall is located upward of the erecting wall, and the erecting wall is disposed on the side closer to the turbine housing with respect to the opposite wall.
10. The engine according to claim 4 ,
wherein the manifold insulator has, in a cross section orthogonal to the multi-cylinder aligning direction, an inverted L shape having an erecting wall extending in the up-down direction along the side surface of the turbo supercharger, and an upper wall extending in the lateral direction from the erecting wall toward the upper side of the exhaust manifold, the opening being disposed in the erecting wall,
wherein the turbine insulator has, on the side opposite the engine body, an opposite wall extending in the up-down direction, and
wherein the opposite wall and the erecting wall are aligned in the up-down direction so that the opposite wall is located upward of the erecting wall, and the erecting wall is disposed on the side closer to the turbine housing with respect to the opposite wall.
11. The engine according to claim 6 ,
wherein the manifold insulator has, in a cross section orthogonal to the multi-cylinder aligning direction, an inverted L shape having an erecting wall extending in the up-down direction along the side surface of the turbo supercharger, and an upper wall extending in the lateral direction from the erecting wall toward the upper side of the exhaust manifold, the opening being disposed in the erecting wall,
wherein the turbine insulator has, on the side opposite the engine body, an opposite wall extending in the up-down direction, and
wherein the opposite wall and the erecting wall are aligned in the up-down direction so that the opposite wall is located upward of the erecting wall, and the erecting wall is disposed on the side closer to the turbine housing with respect to the opposite wall.
12. The engine according to claim 7 ,
wherein the manifold insulator has, in a cross section orthogonal to the multi-cylinder aligning direction, an inverted L shape having an erecting wall extending in the up-down direction along the side surface of the turbo supercharger, and an upper wall extending in the lateral direction from the erecting wall toward the upper side of the exhaust manifold, the opening being disposed in the erecting wall,
wherein the turbine insulator has, on the side opposite the engine body, an opposite wall extending in the up-down direction, and
wherein the opposite wall and the erecting wall are aligned in the up-down direction so that the opposite wall is located upward of the erecting wall, and the erecting wall is disposed on the side closer to the turbine housing with respect to the opposite wall.