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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2014
Cummins Ltd, Huddersfield, GB;
Stephen Hughes, Stockport, GB;
Cummins Ltd., Huddersfield, GB;
Abstract
A turbine housing has a cavity that defines a turbine axis, and has a volute. The volute comprises a volute passage spiralling radially inwards towards the cavity, a substantially annular throat positioned around the cavity between it and the volute passage, and a tongue terminating at a distal tongue tip. In a plane containing the turbine axis and the tongue tip, the throat defines a line of minimum clearance, the volute passage and tongue tip co-operatively define a preliminary inlet area, and the tongue tip defines a tongue tip lateral centerline. The line of minimum clearance and the preliminary inlet area co-operatively define a line of passage offset, which connects the centroid of the preliminary inlet area and a point half way along the line of minimum clearance. The line of passage offset is not perpendicular to the turbine axis, and the tongue tip lateral centerline and the line of passage offset define an angle therebetween of at least 60 degrees.