F01D17/141

Rotary valve unit for turbocharger

A turbocharger system is disclosed, including a turbine and compressor and a rotary valve unit. The rotary valve unit comprises a fixed valve seat and a rotary valve member arranged coaxially with the valve seat. The valve member is disposed against the valve seat and is rotatable about the axis for selectively varying a degree of alignment between respective orifices in the valve seat and valve member. The valve unit includes a valve housing that defines a first flow passage and a second flow passage, and the valve member and valve seat are disposed in the second flow passage. A turbocharger system is also disclosed, including a turbine and compressor and the rotary valve unit. The rotary valve unit is coupled with the turbine such that exhaust gas that has passed through the turbine wheel is fed into the first flow passage of the rotary valve unit, and exhaust gas that has bypassed the turbine wheel is fed into the second flow passage of the rotary valve unit.

COMPONENT ASSEMBLY FOR VARIABLE AIRFOIL SYSTEMS
20220307384 · 2022-09-29 ·

A component assembly for a gas turbine engine defining a core air flowpath is provided. The component assembly includes an outer shell comprising a first array of integral outer shell airfoils that extend inward from an outer shell periphery; and an inner shell comprising a second array of integral inner shell airfoils that extend outward from an inner shell periphery, wherein the outer shell and the inner shell are one or both of translatable and rotatable relative to one another between a first position and a second position.

Linkage system with wear reduction

A linkage system includes a pivot bias assembly at each pivot which removes internal clearances and resultant vibratory wear. The pivot bias assembly includes a cavity which defines an axis transverse to the pivot axis. A spring biased piston is located therein to provide a radial load toward the rotation pivot to close radial clearances. The spring loaded piston reduces all the radial internal clearances to zero to reduce vibratory wear created by engine vibratory inputs. An assembly flat is positioned such that the component is assembled in a non-operating angular position such that the spring biased piston is under minimal or no load then the component is rotated into operating position so as to preload the spring biased piston.

Exhaust centerbody for a turbine engine
09816461 · 2017-11-14 · ·

An exhaust centerbody for a turbine engine is provided. The centerbody includes a truncated downstream part, which is connected to an upstream part by an annular ridge marking a discontinuity between the outer surfaces of the upstream and downstream parts. The outer surface of the downstream part has a substantially conical general shape, of which the tip is oriented downstream and is positioned in the region of the axis A, the axial half-section of this outer surface defining a line of which the upstream end part is substantially tangential to a straight line passing through the ridge and forming a non-zero angle α with a tangent to the outer surface of the upstream part, in the region of the ridge, and of which the downstream end part is substantially tangential to a straight line passing through the tip and forming a non-zero angle β with the axis A.

Variable geometry turbine
09816434 · 2017-11-14 · ·

A variable geometry turbine comprises a turbine wheel and a primary inlet passage of variable axial width. The turbine has a secondary inlet passage provides a flow path for a working fluid which circumnavigates at least part of the primary inlet passage. A seal element and one or more apertures are cooperable to selectively allow or prevent fluid flow through the secondary inlet passage. The ratio of the minimum cross-sectional area of the flow path through the primary inlet passage to that of the secondary inlet passage is between 1.3 and 1.7.

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACTUATING GAS TURBINE ENGINE COMPONENTS USING INTEGRATED JAMMING DEVICES

A system for actuating components of a gas turbine engine may generally include a turbine component incorporating a jamming device. The jamming device may include a bladder and a jammable media contained within the bladder. The jammable media may be jammable within the bladder from an unjammed state, wherein a fluid is contained within the bladder, to a jammed state, wherein the fluid is at least partially evacuated from the bladder. The system may also include a fluid coupling in fluid communication with the bladder. A portion of the turbine component may be located at a first position when the jammable media is in the unjammed state. Additionally, such portion of the turbine component may be located at a second position when the jammable media is in the jammed state.

Centrifugal compressor with gas and liquid cooling lines

A centrifugal compressor includes a motor that rotates a rotary shaft of a compressor impeller, a motor housing that houses the motor, a compressor housing that houses the compressor impeller and includes an intake port and a discharge port, an gas bleed port that is provided closer to the discharge port than the compressor impeller in a flow direction in the compressor housing, a cooling gas line which is connected to the gas bleed port and through which a part of compressed gas compressed by the compressor impeller passes, a cooling liquid line of which at least a part is provided in the motor housing and through which cooling liquid of which the temperature is lower than the temperature of the compressed gas passes, and a heat exchanger that is disposed on the cooling gas line and the cooling liquid line.

Internal combustion engine for a motor vehicle and motor vehicle having such an internal combustion engine
11199128 · 2021-12-14 · ·

An internal combustion engine has first and second combustion chambers, first and second exhaust gas line elements, and an exhaust gas turbocharger which has a first flood, a second flood, and a third flood. A bypass device has a bypass line that can be flowed through by exhaust gas from the first and second exhaust gas line elements and via the bypass line a turbine wheel is bypassed by a first part of the exhaust gas from the first and second exhaust gas line elements. A valve device includes a first valve element, via which an amount of the exhaust gas flowing through the bypass line and bypassing the turbine wheel from the first and second exhaust gas line elements is settable. A third exhaust gas line element opens out into the third flood.

SEAL ASSEMBLY

There is provided a seal assembly comprising: a first component and a second component spaced apart from the first component so as to define a passage for the transfer of fluid from an inlet of the seal assembly to an outlet of the seal assembly, wherein the first component comprises a concavity at least partially defining the passage, and wherein no part of the second component extends into the portion of the passage bounded by the concavity.

Variable-flow-rate valve mechanism and turbocharger
11352944 · 2022-06-07 · ·

A clearance δ between an inner peripheral surface of an attachment hole of an attachment tongue and an outer peripheral surface of a valve shaft is set to be smaller than an allowable displacement amount λ in an axial direction of a valve with respect to the attachment tongue. When a condition is satisfied in which the outer peripheral surface of the valve shaft comes into contact with a front-side periphery and a back-side periphery of the attachment hole of the attachment tongue, and in which a top surface of a valve body comes into contact with a back surface of the attachment tongue, a waste gate valve is constituted so that a metal washer becomes non-contact with a front surface of the attachment tongue.