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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2017
Borgwarner Inc., Auburn Hills, MI (US);
Michael Stilgenbauer, Bolanden, DE;
Matthias Ruh, Offenheim, DE;
Gerald Schall, Bobenheim-Roxheim, DE;
BorgWarner Inc., Auburn Hills, MI (US);
Abstract
An exhaust-gas turbocharger (), with a turbine housing () which has a turbine housing inlet () and a turbine housing outlet () for exhaust gas, and which has a wastegate duct () between the turbine housing inlet () and the turbine housing outlet (), and a flap arrangement () comprising a pivotable flap lever (), a flap plate (), which is connected to the flap lever (), for opening and closing the wastegate duct, and having a spring element () which is arranged between the flap lever () and a disc () fastened to the flap plate (). The spring element () has an outer circumferential region () which is supported on a sliding contact surface (), which is of curved form, of the disc ().