Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Aisin Takaoka Co., Ltd.

Hideki Yoshikane

Tatsuo Iida

Akira Sato

Tomoyuki Isogai

Hirofumi Inoshita

Koichi Mine

Takuya Kajita

A turbocharger includes: a turbine wheel that is driven by exhaust gas from an engine and supported rotatably by a predetermined rotary shaft; and a turbine housing that forms an exhaust gas passage that leads the exhaust gas to the turbine wheel, wherein the turbine housing includes a housing main body constituted by a plate-form member and a reinforcement member that forms the exhaust gas passage together with the housing main body and reinforces the housing main body, the reinforcement member includes a pair of annular portions having a substantially annular shape and provided about an axial center of the rotary shaft at an interval in an axial direction of the rotary shaft, and a connecting portion that connects the pair of annular portions, and the pair of annular portions and the connecting portion are molded integrally by implementing deformation processing on the plate-form member.

Turbocharger and manufacturing method for turbocharger

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Nagoya, Japan

Hideki Yoshikane