Exhaust gas turbocharger for an internal combustion engine

US6553762B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Daimlerchrysler AG · US

Inventors

• Paul Löffler · Stuttgart, DE
• Wolfgang Erdmann · Buxtehude, DE
• Peter Fledersbacher · Stuttgart, DE
• Siegfried Sumser · Stuttgart, DE
• Friedrich Wirbeleit · Eßlingen, DE
• Jurgen Willand · Stuttgart, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 11, 2001
• Grant date: Apr 29, 2003
• Expiry date: Dec 11, 2021

Classification

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

Abstract

In an exhaust gas turbocharger for an internal combustion engine including an exhaust gas turbine and a compressor connected to the turbine so as to be operated thereby, the turbine includes a housing consisting of an inner and an outer shell formed from steel sheets and being arranged in spaced relationship so as to form therebetween an intermediate space.