Exhaust gas turbocharger for an internal combustion engine

US6571558B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Daimlerchrysler AG · US

Inventors

• Helmut Finger · Echterdingen, DE
• Peter Fledersbacher · Stuttgart, DE
• Paul Löffler · Stuttgart, DE
• Siegfried Sumser · Stuttgart, DE
• Friedrich Wirbeleit · Eßlingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 17, 2001
• Grant date: Jun 3, 2003
• Expiry date: Aug 17, 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 having an exhaust gas turbine arranged in an exhaust gas line, and a compressor arranged in an in-take duct and connected to the turbine by way of a shaft, the compressor includes a compressor wheel forming at the same time a rotor of an electric motor.