Exhaust-gas turbocharger

US9518476B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• BorgWarner Inc. · US

Inventors

• Dietmar Metz · Meckenheim, DE
• Martin Mueller · Seewald, DE
• Thomas Ramb · Worms, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 19, 2013
• Grant date: Dec 13, 2016
• Expiry date: Feb 8, 2034

Classification

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

Abstract

An exhaust-gas turbocharger (1) having a turbine (2), with a turbine wheel (3) surrounded by an intake duct (4), and a VTG cartridge (5), with a washer (6) and a vane bearing ring (7), which delimit the intake duct (4), and with a plurality of vanes (8), arranged in the intake duct (4) and mounted in the vane bearing ring (7) by way of rotatable vane shafts (9), which are connected to vane levers (10), the lever heads (11) of which engage into associated grooves (12) in a unison ring (13), which surrounds the vane bearing ring (7); and having a radial bearing between the unison ring (13) and the vane bearing ring (7). The vane levers (10) for forming the radial bearing are in the form of cam levers, the lever heads (11) of which are supported in the grooves (12).