Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Yasuko Inoue

Takashi Tsukiyama

Akitoshi Iwata

Kouji Nagai

Akihiro Asano

Takayasu Ogasawara

A forced-induction device includes a turbine wheel, a turbine housing, and a connection pipe. The connection pipe includes a partition wall that partitions the inside of the connection pipe into a first passage and a second passage. When a cross section orthogonal to a rotation axis of the turbine wheel is viewed, a line segment extending from the distal end of the partition wall toward the upstream side in the flow direction of exhaust gas and defining a boundary between the first passage and the partition wall is a first downstream line segment. A line segment extending from the distal end of the partition wall toward the upstream side in the flow direction of exhaust gas and defining a boundary between the second passage and the partition wall is a second downstream line segment. The first downstream line segment and the second downstream line segment are parallel to each other.

Forced-induction device

A forced-induction device includes a turbine wheel and a partition wall that partitions the interior of a connection pipe into a first passage and a second passage. When viewed in a cross section orthogonal to a rotation axis of the turbine wheel, a line segment connecting the rotation center of the turbine wheel and a downstream end of an inner wall in a flow direction of exhaust gas is a first line segment. A straight line orthogonal to the first line segment and extending from the downstream end in the flow direction of the exhaust gas is a first imaginary line. A straight line passing through a proximal end of the partition wall and orthogonal to an inflow direction of the exhaust gas is a second imaginary line. The distal end of the partition wall is located between the first imaginary line and the second imaginary line.

A wastegate is attached to a turbine housing of a turbocharger. The wastegate opens and closes a bypass passage. An actuator is coupled to the wastegate via a link mechanism. The link mechanism includes a link rod and a link arm. The longitudinal direction of the link rod in a state in which the bypass passage is fully closed is defined as a width direction of the link arm. The coupling center position in the link arm to which the link rod is coupled is located at a position offset in a direction in which the link rod moves to open the wastegate from a middle of the link arm in the width direction.

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Yasuko Inoue