Apparatus for a vehicle

• US 7,694,667 B2
• Filed: 08/11/2006
• Issued: 04/13/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/24/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Genesis Group International USA Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Richwood Creek Pty., Ltd.
• Inventors: Mueller, Andrew, Williams, Danny
• Primary Examiner(s): Trieu; Thai Ba
• Application Number:
  US11/503,490
• Publication Number:
  US 20070169762A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,341 Days
• Field of Search: 123/559.1, 123/65.BA
• US Class Current: 123/559.1
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 33/36 of positive-displacement type
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 33/38 of Roots type
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 33/44 Passages conducting the charge from the pump to the engine inlet, e.g. reservoirs
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 35/10157 Supercharged engines
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 35/10288 Air intakes combined with another engine part, e.g. cylinder head cover or being cast in one piece with the exhaust manifold, cylinder head or engine block
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 35/116 for engines with cylinders in V-arrangement or arranged oppositely relative to the main shaft
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/12 Improving ICE efficiencies

Abstract

An apparatus for a vehicle comprising a compressor and manifold for connection to air inlets of an engine, wherein the manifold has an entry end chamber and the compressor device is located at least partially within the chamber.

Claims

1. An apparatus for a vehicle comprising a compressor and manifold for connection to air inlets of an engine, wherein the manifold has an entry end chamber, the compressor device is located at least partially within the chamber, and wherein the entry end chamber comprises a discharge diffuser.

2. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1 including at least one common wall which partitions compressor loads of the compressor from an intake passage of the manifold.

3. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1 including a first and second common wall.

4. The apparatus as claimed in claim 3 wherein at least one common wall is curved.

5. The apparatus as claimed in claim 4 wherein at least one common wall forms at least part of a passage for airflow with an opposing wall of the manifold.

6. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1 wherein the compressor device comprises one of a super charger and turbo charger.

7. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1 wherein the compressor device comprises a super charger with a compression chamber having compressor lobes located therein.

8. The apparatus as claimed in claim 7 wherein the super charger comprises compression chamber walls.

9. The apparatus as claimed in claim 8 wherein the compression chamber walls include common walls.

10. The apparatus as claimed in claim 9 wherein the common walls comprise first and second walls.

11. The apparatus as claimed in claim 10 wherein the super charger has an outlet located between the first and second common walls.

12. The apparatus as claimed in claim 10 wherein the first and second common walls have outer ends which oppose each other.

13. The apparatus as claimed in claim 12 wherein each outer end is located below the respective central axis of rotation of the compressor lobes.

14. The apparatus as claimed in claim 13 wherein the outlet comprises an opening at a lower part of the entry end chamber.

15. The apparatus as claimed in claim 14 wherein each compressor rotor comprises a shaft, and wherein the shafts of each compressor rotor are located inside the entry end chamber.

16. The apparatus as claimed in claim 14 wherein the outlet comprises an opening to a lower part of the entry end chamber.

17. The apparatus as claimed in claim 16 wherein each compressor lobe comprises an axel, and wherein the axles of each compressor lobe are located inside the entry end chamber.

18. The apparatus as claimed in claim 17 wherein the first and second common walls are located adjacent a lower wall of the entry end chamber.

21. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1 wherein the first and second common walls terminate in outer ends which face each other.

22. The apparatus as claimed in claim 21 wherein the outlet gap located between the outer ends of the common walls has a width which is less than the distance between the centers of each compressor rotor.

23. The apparatus as claimed in claim 22 wherein the width of the outlet gap is less than half the distance between the centers of the compressor lobes.

24. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1 wherein the entry end chamber has a plurality of exit passages leading to an exit outlet for connection to air intakes of an engine.

25. The apparatus as claimed in claim 24 wherein the exit passages diverge in opposite directions.

26. The apparatus as claimed in claim 24 wherein each of the exit passages extend in the same direction as the other exit passages.

27. The apparatus as claimed in claim 24 wherein the cross-sectional area of the entry end chamber is greater than the cross-sectional area of the/each exit passage.

28. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1 wherein the entry end chamber has a lower wall which is generally concave.

29. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1 wherein the discharge diffuser comprises an enlarged area diffuser comprising passages extending from an outlet of the compressor device, around part of the outer wall of a rotor compartment of the compressor and an air inlet passage leading to cylinders of the engine.

19. The apparatus as claimed in claimed 12 wherein an upper wall of the super charger lobes comprises an upper wall of the entry end chamber.

20. The apparatus as claimed in claim 19 wherein the outlet gap is located above a substantially horizontal wall section of the entry end chamber.

30. A vehicle comprising a compressor apparatus comprising a compressor device and manifold for connection to air inlets of an engine of the vehicle, wherein the manifold has an entry end chamber, the compressor device is located at least partially within the chamber, and wherein the entry end chamber comprises a discharge diffuser.

31. The vehicle as claimed in claim 30 wherein the compressor device comprises a super charger having a top surface located below a top surface of the engine.

32. The vehicle as claimed in claim 30 wherein the compressor apparatus is located below the hood or bonnet of an engine compartment of a vehicle.

33. The vehicle as claimed in claim 30 wherein the compressor device comprises compressor lobes which are located in a compressor chamber located at least partially within an inlet chamber of the manifold.