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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2018
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engine & Turbocharger, Ltd., Sagamihara, JP;
MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD., Sagamihara, JP;
Abstract
A centrifugal compressor includes an impeller, a compressor inlet pipe for guiding air to the impeller, a scroll passage disposed on an outer peripheral side of the impeller, and a bypass passage connecting the compressor inlet pipe and the scroll passage and bypassing the impeller. In a cross-section perpendicular to an axis of the compressor inlet pipe, when Ais a connection portion on a downstream side in a rotational direction of the impeller of connection portions between an inner wall surface of the compressor inlet pipe and an inner wall surface of the bypass passage, C is a virtual circle constituting the inner wall surface of the compressor inlet pipe, and Lis a tangent line of the virtual circle C at the connection portion A, the inner wall surface of the bypass passage is formed from the connection portion Aalong the tangent line L