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Exhaust-gas turbocharger

US9664198B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

BorgWarner Inc. · US

Inventors

Thomas Ramb · Worms, DE
Dietmar Metz · Meckenheim, DE
Christian Haibt · Zwingenberg, DE
Julia Nohl · Morbach, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Apr 19, 2013
Grant date	May 30, 2017
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 29, 2034

Classification

Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
CPC primaryF05D2220/40
WIPO fieldEngines, pumps, turbines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

An exhaust-gas turbocharger (1) having a turbine (2), which has a turbine wheel (3) surrounded by an intake duct (4), and having a VTG cartridge (5), which has a disk (6) and a vane bearing ring (7), which delimit the intake duct (4), and which has a plurality of vanes (8), which are arranged in the intake duct (4) and are 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) on the outside, and which has an adjusting lever (14) which is operatively connected to an adjusting shaft (15) in order to transmit an adjusting torque to the unison ring (13). The adjusting lever (14) is of planar configuration.

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