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Turbine wastegate

US9556786B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateNov 29, 2015
Grant dateJan 31, 2017
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Expiry dateNov 29, 2035

Classification

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

Abstract

A turbine housing includes a bore, a wastegate seat and a wastegate passage; a bushing disposed at least in part in the bore; a rotatable wastegate shaft that includes a shoulder and a control end; a control arm operatively coupled to the wastegate shaft where the bushing is disposed between a surface of the control arm and the shoulder; a wastegate arm that extends from the wastegate shaft where the shoulder is disposed between the wastegate arm and the control end of the wastegate shaft; and a wastegate plug that extends from the wastegate arm where the wastegate plug includes a toroidal surface defined by a portion of a torus where, in a closed state, the toroidal surface contacts the conical surface of the wastegate seat to cover the wastegate passage.

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