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Internal combustion engine

US9097173B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Daimler AG · DE

Inventors

Thomas Kuhn · Heilbronn, DE
Nils Brinkert · Ludwigsburg, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 6, 2012
Grant date	Aug 4, 2015
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 6, 2032

Classification

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

Abstract

In an internal combustion engine comprising a turbocharger which includes a turbine which is located in an exhaust tract of the internal combustion engine and to which exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine is applied via an exhaust pipe system of the exhaust tract, the turbine comprises volute passages distributed along the circumference of the turbine wheel and the exhaust gas flows are combined and divided upstream of the turbine into at least two exhaust gas part-flows each of which part-flows is fed to one of the volute passages.

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