Turbocharger

• US 6,073,447 A
• Filed: 09/27/1999
• Issued: 06/13/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Aisin Seiki Co., Ltd. (Aisin Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Aisin Seiki Co., Ltd. (Aisin Corp.)
• Inventors: Kawaguchi, Jun, Kawakami, Toshiro
• Primary Examiner(s): KOCZO JR, MICHAEL
• Application Number:
  US09/404,179
• Time in Patent Office: 260 Days
• Field of Search: 60/600, 60/601, 60/602, 60/603
• US Class Current: 60/602
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 17/146 by throttling the volute inlet of radial machines or engines
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 9/026 Scrolls for radial machines or engines
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 37/025 Multiple scrolls or multiple gas passages guiding the gas to the pump drive
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 37/12 Control of the pumps
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 37/22 by varying cross-section of exhaust passages or air passages , e.g. by throttling turbine inlets or outlets or by varying effective number of guide conduits F02B37/24 takes precedence
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/12 Improving ICE efficiencies

Abstract

A turbocharger incorporating a shaft, a turbine rotor connected to one end of the shaft and a compressor rotor connected to the other end of the shaft is disclosed. A turbine housing in which the turbine rotor rotated by exhaust gas is disposed, is provided with an involute inside wall that forms a scrolling portion for exhaust gas. A compressor housing in which the compressor rotor is disposed is also provided. A division wall divides the scrolling portion into an inside scrolling portion and an outside scrolling portion. A turbocharger has a change means for changing the flow direction of exhaust gas between an inside scrolling portion and an outside scrolling portion.

Claims

1. A turbocharger comprising:

a shaft;

a turbine rotor connected to one end of said shaft;

a compressor rotor connected to the other end of the shaft;

a turbine housing in which said turbine rotor rotated by exhaust gas is disposed and which is provided with an exhaust gas inlet port, an exhaust gas outlet port, and a scrolling portion communicating between said exhaust gas inlet port and said exhaust gas outlet port through said turbine rotor;

a compressor housing in which said compressor rotor is disposed;

a division wall having a plurality of connecting portions that peripherally and successively surround the turbine rotor, and which divides said scrolling portion into an inside scrolling portion and an outside scrolling portion in the radial direction of said shaft, said inside and outside scrolling portions each being in direct communication with said exhaust gas inlet port,

a plurality of communicating slits which are provided in said division wall via said connecting portions and which communicate between said inside scrolling portion and said outside scrolling portion, and

a control means for controlling the communication at least between said exhaust gas inlet port and the outside scrolling portion.

2. The turbocharger of claim 1, wherein the control means includes a valve which closes one of the outside scrolling portion or the inside scrolling portion.

3. The turbocharger of claim 2, wherein a vane is located at the end of the outside scrolling portion, and is supported by a vane shaft which is parallel with the shaft and rotated for a predetermined angle by exhaust gas.

4. The turbocharger of claim 1, wherein at least one of the communicating slits has a first surface and a second surface which is located more downstream than the first surface, and whose angle to the tangential direction of said turbine rotor is larger than the same of the first surface so as to form a converging nozzle.

5. The turbocharger of claim 4, wherein the communicating slits are located at a downstream area of the scrolling portion.

6. The turbocharger of claim 2, wherein said turbocharger further comprises a flow control mechanism for changing the flow direction of the exhaust gas, which is located at the maximum downstream point of the scrolling portion.

7. The turbocharger of claim 6, wherein the flow control mechanism includes a vane which is rotated by the exhaust gas.

8. The turbocharger of claim 1, wherein the turbine housing further includes a volute inside wall for forming the scrolling portion, and wherein the division wall is located along the volute inside wall.