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Fpt Motorenforschung Ag

Juerg Spuler

Werner Zaehner

Ernst Lutz

Guenther Scherngell

Jean-Francois Mazaud

Variable geometry turbine, in particular a gas turbine, comprising a housing (), a turbine rotor (), a fluid inlet scroll () that surrounds the turbine rotor, a vaned nozzle interposed between the inlet scroll and the turbine rotor conceived to accelerate the flow of fluid, the nozzle comprising an axially adjustable ring () conceived to vary the nozzle gap () and having a wall () delimiting the nozzle gap, the wall having balance holes (') connecting the nozzle gap with a chamber () delimited by the housing and the ring, characterised in that the edges (), formed by the holes with the surface () of the wall facing the nozzle gap, are rounded in the portion (&#x2032;) located downstream the holes with respect to the fluid flow. Turbocharger and supercharged engine comprising the engine.

Variable geometry turbine

A variable geometry turbine, particularly for a supercharger turbocompressor of an internal combustion engine, comprising an outer housing forming a spiral inlet channel for an operating fluid, a rotor supported in a rotary manner in the housing, and an annular vaned nozzle of variable geometry interposed radially between the channel and the rotor and comprising a control member moving axially in order to control of the flow of the operating fluid from the channel to the rotor, the control member being formed as an annular piston of a fluid actuator actuated directly by means of a control pressure.

An engine-turbocharger unit for a vehicle, in particular an industrial vehicle, having an internal combustion engine; a decompression brake device; and a turbocharger in turn having a variable-geometry turbine driven by the exhaust gas from the engine, and a compressor driven by the turbine and connected at the outlet to an intake manifold of the engine; the unit also has a throttling device located on the outlet side of the turbine and settable between a fully-open attitude and a closed attitude; the variable-geometry turbine and the throttling device are jointly controlled, thereby allowing independent control of the exhaust manifold pressure of the combustion engine and of the expansion ratio of the turbine.

IC engine-turbocharger unit for a motor vehicle, in particular an industrial vehicle, with turbine power control

A control system for a variable-geometry turbocharger connected to an internal combustion engine, whereby the geometry of the turbocharger is controlled alternatively according to a first operating mode, a second operating mode or a third operating mode; the system providing for switching from one operating mode to another fully automatically.

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Neukirch, Switzerland

Juerg Spuler