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Granted Patent B2
US 10,731,503 · App. 16/082,859 · Granted Aug 4, 2020

Turbocharger

Inventors: Toyotaka Yoshida (Tokyo, JP); Toru Hoshi (Tokyo, JP); Yosuke Dammoto (Tokyo, JP); Yoji Akiyama (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
F01D17/165F01D5/048F02B37/24F02C6/12F05D2220/40Y02T10/144
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 10,731,503
App. No.
16/082,859
Granted
Aug 4, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A turbocharger ( 10 ) comprising: a rotating shaft ( 14 ); a turbine wheel ( 12 ); a turbine housing ( 31 ); a scroll flowpath ( 34 ) having gas flowing therethrough that rotates and drives the turbine wheel ( 12 ); a nozzle flowpath ( 35 ) that guides gas radially inwards from the scroll flowpath ( 34 ) and supplies gas to the turbine wheel ( 12 ); and a vane ( 53 ) that adjusts the amount of gas introduced in the nozzle flowpath ( 35 ). The vane ( 53 ) comprises a guide section ( 60 ) that guides the gas flow (F) in the turbine wheel ( 12 ) radially inwards.

Claims (13)

1. A turbocharger comprising:

a rotating shaft extending along an axis;

a turbine wheel disposed on a first end portion side of the rotating shaft, a plurality of blades being formed at intervals in a circumferential direction on the turbine wheel;

a turbine housing accommodating the turbine wheel;

a scroll flow path formed in the turbine housing, continuing in the circumferential direction on a radially outer side of the turbine wheel, and having gas flowing therethrough that rotates and drives the turbine wheel;

a nozzle flow path that guides the gas radially inwards from the scroll flow path and supplies the gas to the turbine wheel; and

a vane that adjusts the amount of the gas introduced in the nozzle flow path,

wherein the vane includes two end portions and a guide section that guides the gas such that at least part of the flow of the gas flows radially inwards on a trailing edge side of the blade of the turbine wheel,

the guide section is formed in a pressure surface on a side of the vane where the flow of the gas collides,

the guide section has a convex portion rising in a trailing edge portion on a downstream side in a flow direction of the gas,

the convex portion is formed such that a width-direction intermediate portion rises, in a direction away from a surface side opposite to the pressure surface, with respect to both end portions in a width direction on a trailing edge side of the pressure surface, and

the convex curved surface is formed such that a rise dimension of the width-direction intermediate portion gradually increases from an intermediate portion side toward the trailing edge side of the pressure surface.

2. The turbocharger according to claim 1 , wherein the guide section has a concave portion formed in a leading edge portion of the pressure surface on an upstream side in the flow direction and concave to the surface side opposite to the pressure surface.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 7, 2018
From: YOSHIDA, TOYOTAKA; HOSHI, TORU; DAMMOTO, YOSUKE; AKIYAMA, YOJI
To: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
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Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20190101018A1 · Apr 4, 2019
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