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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2002
Yasuaki Jinnai, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Taro Sakamoto, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A variable capacity turbine has adjustment work simplified so as to decrease man-hours, assembly and adjustment costs. The structure is simplified to decrease part category numbers and the number of parts itself, decreasing part costs and enabling nozzle vane setup to a high degree of accuracy without being influenced by the degree of dimensional accuracy of the component parts. A plurality of joint members (lever plates) are used which are the same in number as the nozzle shafts to connect a plurality of nozzle vanes and the nozzle driving member. Each nozzle shaft is fitted and fixed to one end of a respective lever plate after setting the predetermined positional relationship between the wing angle of the nozzle vanes and the predetermined fitting direction of the fixed section of the lever plate. Another end of each lever plate is engaged with the nozzle driving member.