Exhaust-gas turbocharger with divided, variable guide vanes

• US 5,372,485 A
• Filed: 11/12/1993
• Issued: 12/13/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG (Mercedes-Benz Group AG)
• Original Assignee: Mercedes-Benz AG (Mercedes-Benz Group AG)
• Inventors: Sumser, Siegfried, Erdmann, Wolfgang, Schmidt, Erwin, Frankle, Gerhard
• Primary Examiner(s): Thorpe, Timothy S.
• Application Number:
  US08/151,173
• Time in Patent Office: 396 Days
• Field of Search: 417/406, 417/407, 417/409, 415/165, 415/166, 60/605.1
• US Class Current: 417/407
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 17/14 varying effective cross-sectional area of nozzles or guide conduits
• CPC Class Codes: F02C 6/12 Turbochargers, i.e. plants for augmenting mechanical power output of internal-combustion piston engines by increase of charge pressure

Abstract

An exhaust-gas turbocharger for an internal-combustion engine, the exhaust-gas turbine of which comprises a rotor with an at leash partially diagonal throughflow direction and a spiral guide channel surrounding this and having a mouth region in the form of an angular nozzle, and a variable guide blade cascade with guide blades being arranged in the mouth region. In order to design guide blade cascades with a simpler construction than that of known versions, at the same time with an increase in their operational reliability, according to the invention the guide blades are divided in such a way that they form a divided guide blade cascade with a stationary guide-blade cascade part and with a guide-blade cascade part assigned to this and rotatable concentrically relative to the axis of rotation of the rotor.

Claims

1. An exhaust gas turbo charger for an internal combustion engine, comprising:

a turbine stage including a turbine rotor rotatable about a turbine rotor axis and including turbine blades mounted on the turbine rotor,

an annular double flow spiral guide channel having a first flow channel exhausting radially toward the turbine blades to drive the turbine rotor and a second flow channel exhausting diagonally toward the turbine rotor to drive the turbine rotor,

and a variable guide blade cascade assembly for guiding gas flow from the double flow spiral guide channel to the turbine blades, said variable guide blade cascade assembly being a divided guide blade cascade including;

a first stationary guide-blade cascade part including a plurality of first stationary guide-blades interposed between the first flow channel and the turbine blades,

a first movable guide-blade cascade part including a plurality of first movable guide blades interposed between the first flow channel and the turbine blades,

a second stationary guide-blade cascade part including a plurality of second stationary guide-blades interposed between the second flow channel and the turbine blades, and

a second movable guide-blade cascade part including a plurality of second movable guide blades interposed between the second flow channel and the turbine blades,

said movable guide-blade cascade parts being rotatable concentrically relative to the turbine rotor axis to thereby adjust flow cross-section for gas supplied from the first and second flow channels to the turbine blades, wherein said first and second movable guide-blade cascade parts are rigidly connected with one another.

2. Exhaust-gas turbocharger according to claim 1, wherein the rotatable guide-blade cascade parts are arranged upstream of the stationary guide-blade cascade parts.

3. Exhaust-gas turbocharger according to claim 1, wherein the width of the rotatable guide-blade cascade parts is approximately one third of the respective cascade width.

4. Exhaust-gas turbocharger according to claim 1, wherein respective stationary and movable guide blades of the first cascade parts are separated from one another along a plane extending parallel to a radial plane of the rotor.

5. Exhaust-gas turbocharger according to claim 1, wherein respective stationary and movable guide blades of the first cascade parts are separated from one another along two intersecting sectional faces, one sectional face being in a plane parallel to a radial plane of the rotor and the other sectional face being in a plane approximately parallel to a skeleton face of the respective guide blade.

6. Exhaust-gas turbocharger according to claim 5, wherein the guide-blades of the first stationary guide-blade cascade part are respectively formed by profiled segments, and wherein the guide-blades of the first rotatable guide-blade cascade part have a guide-blade profile with guide-blade cutouts congruent to the stationary guide-blade parts.

7. Exhaust-gas turbocharger according to claim 6, wherein the guide-blade cutouts in the rotatable guide-blade cascade part are located on the downstream side of the guide blades, and wherein the guide-blade surface on the downstream suction side of the guide blades is made continuous without a gap.

8. Exhaust-gas turbocharger according to claim 1, comprising means for adjusting the throughflow cross-section of flow channels of the guide blade cascades in dependence on operating parameters of the internal-combustion engine by means of rotation of the rotatable guide-blade cascade parts.

9. Exhaust-gas turbocharger according to claim 1, comprising means for controlling the throughflow cross-section of flow channels of the guide blade cascade in dependence on operating parameters of the exhaust-gas turbocharger by means of rotation of the rotatable guide-blade cascade parts.

10. Exhaust-gas turbocharger according to claim 1, wherein the width of the rotatable guide-blade cascade parts is approximately one third of the respective cascade width.

11. Exhaust-gas turbocharger according to claim 1, wherein respective stationary and movable guide blades of the second cascade parts are separated from one another along a radial plane of the rotor.

12. Exhaust-gas turbocharger according to claim 2, wherein respective stationary and movable guide blades of the second cascade parts are separated from one another along a radial plane of the rotor.

13. Exhaust-gas turbocharger according to claim 1, wherein the first stationary guide blades are disposed upstream of the first movable guide blades.

14. Exhaust-gas turbocharger according to claim 1, wherein the second stationary guide blades are disposed upstream of the second movable guide blades.

15. Exhaust-gas turbocharger according to claim 13, wherein the second stationary guide blades are disposed upstream of the second movable guide blades.

16. Exhaust-gas turbocharger according to claim 1, wherein said first and second stationary guide blade cascade parts are fixed to one another.