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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2017
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engine & Turbocharger, Ltd., Sagamihara, JP;
Keigo Sakamoto, Tokyo, JP;
Shigeyoshi Sakuma, Tokyo, JP;
Eigo Katou, Tokyo, JP;
Yosuke Dammoto, Sagamihara, JP;
Yoji Akiyama, Sagamihara, JP;
Nariaki Seike, Sagamihara, JP;
Hiroyuki Arimizu, Sagamihara, JP;
MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD., Sagamihara, JP;
Abstract
A variable nozzle device includes: a first plate-shaped member having a first plate portion having an annular shape and being fixed to a bearing housing; a second plate-shaped member having a second plate portion which has an annular shape and which defines a nozzle flow passage between the first plate portion and the second plate portion, the second plate portion having a surface disposed so as to face the first plate portion and another surface disposed so as to face at least partially a scroll flow passage formed inside a turbine housing; at least one nozzle support having, with respect to an axial direction of the nozzle support, an end coupled to the first plate portion and another end coupled to the second plate portion; at least one nozzle vane rotatably supported between the first plate portion and the second plate portion; and a variable nozzle mechanism configured to change a vane angle of the at least one nozzle vane. The second plate portion is formed to have a larger thickness than the first plate portion.