Supercharged internal combustion engine with turbine which can be liquid-cooled, and method for controlling the cooling of said turbine

US10273866B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Ford Global Technologies, LLC · US

Inventors

• Helmut Matthias Kindl · Aachen, DE
• Vanco Smiljanovski · Bedburg, DE
• Andreas Kuske · Geulle, NL
• Franz Arnd Sommerhoff · Aachen, DE
• Michael Forsting · Rheydt, DE
• Joerg Kemmerling · Monschau, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 20, 2015
• Grant date: Apr 30, 2019
• Expiry date: Nov 18, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02T10/12
• WIPO field: Engines, pumps, turbines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

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.