Exhaust gas turbochanger for an internal combustion engine

• US 5,758,500 A
• Filed: 04/17/1997
• Issued: 06/02/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 04/18/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Daimler AG (Mercedes-Benz Group AG)
• Original Assignee: Mercedes-Benz AG (Mercedes-Benz Group AG)
• Inventors: Sumser, Siegfried, Hanauer, Horst
• Primary Examiner(s): KOCZO JR, MICHAEL
• Application Number:
  US08/839,351
• Time in Patent Office: 411 Days
• Field of Search: 60/602, 415/158
• US Class Current: 60/602
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 17/141 by means of shiftable members or valves obturating part of the flow path
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 17/167 of vanes moving in translation
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 37/025 Multiple scrolls or multiple gas passages guiding the gas to the pump drive
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 37/24 by using pumps or turbines with adjustable guide vanes
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2220/40 in turbochargers
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/12 Improving ICE efficiencies

Abstract

In an exhaust gas turbocharger for an internal combustion engine comprising a compressor and a turbine with an impeller and a turbine wheel mounted on a common shaft, the exhaust turbine includes radial and semi-axial flow passages through which the exhaust gas is conducted to the turbine wheel and which are separated by a guide ring, and an annular sleeve is mounted in the turbine housing so as to be slideable therein along the axis of the turbine wheel across the radial flow passage for closing the radial flow passage of the turbine.

Claims

1. An exhaust gas turbocharger for an internal combustion engine, comprising a compressor having an impeller and a turbine having a turbine wheel and being mounted on opposite sides of a turbine housing, said impeller and said turbine wheel being mounted on a common shaft rotatably supported in said turbine housing, said exhaust gas turbine having a housing with radial and semi-axial flow passages having annular nozzles leading to said turbine wheel and being separated by a flow guide ring, an annular sleeve mounted in said turbine housing so as to be slideable therein along the axis of said turbine wheel so as to extend across and block at least one of said flow passages for controlling the exhaust gas flow through said at least one flow passage, a guide blade ring disposed at an end face of said annular sleeve adjacent said flow guide ring such that the guide blades of said guide blade ring are normally disposed in said one flow passage for guiding the exhaust gas onto said turbine wheel, said flow guide ring having an axially extending annular recess structure receiving said guide blade ring when said annular sleeve is in a nozzle closing position.

2. An exhaust gas turbocharger according to claim 1, wherein said annular sleeve is movable axially into firm engagement with said flow guide ring for firmly closing said one flow passage.

3. An exhaust gas turbocharger according to claim 2, wherein said flow passage controllable by said annular sleeve is said radial flow passage.

4. An exhaust gas turbocharger according to claim 1, wherein said guide blade ring is sufficiently wide that its front end remains disposed in said recess even when said annular sleeve is in a flow passage opening position.

5. An exhaust gas turbocharger according to claim 1, wherein said flow guide ring is mounted on the end of a stationary guide blade ring mounted in said semi-axial flow passage.

6. An exhaust gas turbocharger according to claim 1, wherein said flow guide ring has a radial symmetrical outer surface shape.

7. An exhaust gas turbocharger according to claim 1, wherein said annular sleeve extends axially downstream of said turbine wheel and has, downstream of said turbine wheel, a slightly conical inner shape so as to form a diffuser structure.