Patent · US Expired

Turbocharged internal combustion engine

US5611202A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

Mercedes-Benz Group AG · DE

Inventors

Siegfried Sumser · Stuttgart, DE
Erwin Schmidt · Baltmannsweiler, DE
Herbert Schillings · Gerlingen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 31, 1995
Grant date	Mar 18, 1997
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 31, 2015

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY02T10/12
WIPO fieldEngines, pumps, turbines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

In a turbocharged internal combustion engine having at least two exhaust gas turbochargers arranged in parallel, each including a turbine connected by an exhaust conduit to the engine exhaust to be driven thereby and a compressor connected by an air supply conduit to the intake of the engine for supplying compressed air thereto, an exhaust gas recirculation conduit connected to the exhaust conduit upstream of the turbine leads to the air supply conduit of only one of exhaust gas turbochargers and a check valve is arranged in the air supply duct upstream of the jointure thereof with the exhaust gas recirculation conduit so as to involve only one of the exhaust gas turbochargers in the exhaust gas recirculation.

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