Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Nippondenso Co., Ltd.

Taiho Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Kenichiro Takama

Shinichi Takeshima

Kiyoshi Kobashi

Hirofumi Suzuki

Kazuo Oyobe

Satoru Kanbara

Hiroki Hoshizaki

Terutaka Kageyama

Keijiro Maki

Ryuji Naruse

Yoshihiko Imamura

Kimihide Horio

Hitoshi Niwa

Shinsuke Takenishi

Nobuaki Kawahara

Michihiko Miyasaka

Takafumi Tsurumaru

There is provided a turbocharger bearing housing having no necessity to use a core and capable of achieving cost reduction. A bearing housing of a turbocharger contains a shaft connecting a turbine and a compressor and turnably supports the shaft. The bearing housing of the turbocharger is divided into a turbine-side housing disposed at a turbine side and a compressor-side housing disposed at a compressor side. The turbine-side housing and the compressor-side housing is subjected to machining to thereby form a cooling water passage for supplying cooling water and a lubricating oil passage for supplying lubricating oil.

Turbocharger bearing housing

There is provided a turbocharger which can reduce whirl vibration. The turbocharger includes a shaft connecting a turbine and a compressor, a bearing housing having a bearing portion turnably supporting the shaft, and a sliding bearing interposed between the shaft and the bearing portion. The bearing portion is formed of an aluminum-based material, the shaft is formed of a steel material, and the sliding bearing is formed of a copper-based material.

Turbocharger having a bearing housing

A ceramic valve assembly is housed in a recess formed in a metal pipe and is supported via gaskets by the metal pipes. Each gasket has a larger coefficient of linear expansion than that of the metal pipe. A clearance generated due to the thermal expansion difference between the metal pipe and the ceramic housing is absorbed by the large thermal expansion of the gasket so that no play is generated between the ceramic valve assembly and the metal pipe and the sealing force is maintained. Each gasket has beads constructed of spring material. An excessively large load does not act on the ceramic assembly because the beads are deformed to absorb the load.

Support structure for a ceramic valve assembly

An exhaust-gas purifying apparatus according to the present invention comprises an exhaust-gas filter for trapping particulates in exhaust gas from an engine, and a heating device located on the upper-course side of the filter, with respect to the flowing direction of the exhaust gas, the heating device including one or more conductive-ceramic heater elements, capable of heating and burning the particulates caught by the filter, and a heater case for holding the heater elements in position, so that the caught particulates are heated and burned by the heater elements when the flow resistance of the exhaust gas, flowing through the filter, is increased by the caught particulates, whereby the flow resistance is reduced. The heater element includes a fixed electrode portion, immovably fixed to the heater case, and a slidable electrode portion held slidably. An electrode member, fixed to the heater case, is brazed to the fixed electrode portion, and the heater element is bonded to the electrode member, so as to be clamped from both sides by solidified molten solder. The slidable electrode portion is supported by the heater case, for sliding motion in the direction of thermal deformation, so that the working life of the heater element is prolonged.

Purifying apparatus of a particulate trap-type for collecting

A ceramic heater for regenerating a fine particle collecting filter which is exposed to exhaust gases at elevated temperatures. This ceramic heater comprises two electrode potions, a heat generation portion connected to the two electrode portions and a holding projection portion of a ceramic heater connected to the side of the heat generating portion. The two electrode portions, the heat generating portion and the holding projection portion are formed integrally.

Ceramic heater

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Kenichiro Takama