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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 18, 2004
Steve P. Martin, Walnut, CA (US);
Christopher O Meade, Redondo Beach, CA (US);
Steve P. Martin, Walnut, CA (US);
Christopher O Meade, Redondo Beach, CA (US);
Honeywell International, Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Abstract
An exemplary center housing for a turbocharger includes a filter well for receiving a lubricant filter unit. An exemplary filter unit, for attachment to a center housing of a turbocharger, includes an attachment mechanism to attach the filter unit to the center housing, a filter for filtering lubricant and a lubricant flow path where the lubricant flow path commences at a peripheral surface of the filter unit, passes through the filter and ends at a bore surface of the filter unit. Various other exemplary devices, assemblies, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.