Exhaust-gas turbocharger

• US 10,280,833 B2
• Filed: 05/19/2015
• Issued: 05/07/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: BorgWarner Incorporated
• Original Assignee: BorgWarner Incorporated
• Inventors: Gugau, Marc, Scheri, Alessio
• Primary Examiner(s): Newton, J. Todd
• Application Number:
  US15/310,145
• Publication Number:
  US 20170107896A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,449 Days
• Field of Search: 606051
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 25/24 Casings modified for heating or cooling F01D25/14; Casing parts, e.g. diaphragms, casing fastenings casings for rotary machines or engines in general F16M ; special arrangements in stators dealing with breaking-off of part of rotor F01D21/045
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 5/048 Form or construction
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 5/14 Form or construction selecting particular materials, measures against erosion or corrosion F01D5/28
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 37/025 Multiple scrolls or multiple gas passages guiding the gas to the pump drive
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2220/40 in turbochargers
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2250/51 Inlet
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/12 Improving ICE efficiencies

Abstract

An exhaust-gas turbocharger, preferably for a passenger vehicle, including a turbine having a turbine wheel and a turbine housing. A number of S≥2 of channels are formed in the turbine housing and are intended for guiding the exhaust gas onto the turbine wheel. Each channel directs flow against the turbine wheel over the entire width of the latter, as seen in the axial direction, and over a segment, as seen in relation to the circumferential direction. The turbine wheel has a number of Z≥10 turbine blades. The turbine blades are defined in the form of main blades and intermediate blades. The intermediate blades, at least at their hub-side ends, do not extend as far toward the turbine outlet, as seen in the axial direction, as the main blades.

Claims

1. An exhaust-gas turbocharger (1) comprising

a compressor (2) having a compressor wheel (3),

a turbine (4) having a turbine wheel (5) and a turbine housing (6) having a turbine outlet,

a shaft (7), which connects the compressor wheel (3) to the turbine wheel (5), and

a number of channels (13, 14) formed in the turbine housing (6) for guiding the exhaust gas onto the turbine wheel (5),

wherein

an axial direction (8) is defined along the shaft (7), a radial direction (9) is defined perpendicularly to the axial direction (8), and a circumferential direction (10) is defined around the axial direction (8),

each channel (13, 14) directs flow against the turbine wheel (5),

the turbine wheel (5) comprises ≥

10 turbine blades (12),

the turbine blades (12) are main blades (22) and intermediate blades (23), wherein the intermediate blades (23) do not extend as far toward the turbine outlet, as seen in the axial direction (8), as the main blades (22), and

a dedicated volute (15, 16) is formed in the turbine housing (6) for each channel (13, 14), wherein a radial inner side of each volute (15, 16) terminates with a tongue (17), and a neck cross-sectional area (A1) of the respective channel is determined across the channel at a tip (18) of the tongue (17), and a flow-outlet cross-sectional area (A2) is determined at the turbine outlet, and wherein flow-outlet cross-sectional area (A2) / neck cross-sectional area (A1) ≥

the number of channels·

0.9.

2. The exhaust-gas turbocharger according to claim 1, wherein one of said intermediate blades (23) is arranged in each case between two main blades (22).

3. The exhaust-gas turbocharger according to claim 1, wherein a turbine-wheel inlet diameter (D) is defined at the turbine wheel (5), as measured up to the radial ends of the main blades (22), where the number of channels ·

neck cross-sectional area (A1)/ turbine-wheel inlet diameter (D) ≤

15 mm.

4. The exhaust-gas turbocharger according to claim 1, wherein the volutes (15, 16) are offset through 360°

/number of channels (13, 14) in the circumferential direction (10).

5. The exhaust-gas turbocharger according to claim 1, wherein at least one volute (15) is formed in the turbine housing (6), and wherein, in the volute (15), two channels (13, 14) are separated by a crosspiece (25), and therefore one channel (14) is arranged radially outside the other channel (13).

6. An exhaust-gas turbocharger (1) comprising

a compressor (2) having a compressor wheel (3),

a turbine (4) having a turbine wheel (5) and a turbine housing (6) having a turbine outlet,

a shaft (7), which connects the compressor wheel (3) to the turbine wheel (5), and

a number of channels (13, 14) formed in the turbine housing (6) for guiding the exhaust gas onto the turbine wheel (5),

wherein

an axial direction (8) is defined along the shaft (7), a radial direction (9) is defined perpendicularly to the axial direction (8), and a circumferential direction (10) is defined around the axial direction (8),

each channel (13, 14) directs flow against the turbine wheel (5),

the turbine wheel (5) comprises ≥

10 turbine blades (12),

the turbine blades (12) are main blades (22) and intermediate blades (23), wherein the intermediate blades (23) do not extend as far toward the turbine outlet, as seen in the axial direction (8), as the main blades (22),

a radial inner side of each volute (15, 16) terminates with a tongue (17) and associated tip (18),

the tip (18) of the tongue of one volute (15) forms a geometrical reference point and, starting from this reference point, the next channel (14) terminates at 360°

/the number of turbine wheel blades [Z], as measured in the circumferential direction (10),

the tip (18) of the tongue of this next volute (16) is shortened by an angle α

in the circumferential direction (10), and

(360°

/number of turbine wheel blades [Z])−

5°

α

≥

5°

.