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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2007
Siegfried Sumser, Stuttgart, DE;
Peter Fledersbacher, Stuttgart, DE;
Siegfried Sumser, Stuttgart, DE;
Peter Fledersbacher, Stuttgart, DE;
Daimler AG, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
In a compressor of an exhaust gas turbocharger of an internal combustion engine including a compressor wheel with an auxiliary rotor wheel which is rotatably supported adjacent to, and upstream of, the compressor wheel and which is movable axially between a coupled position with the compressor wheel and a decoupled position, wherein, in the coupled position, the auxiliary rotor wheel is rotationally connected to the compressor wheel, without contacting the compressor wheel, by means of a magnetic clutch for transferring a torque from the auxiliary rotor wheel to the compressor wheel in a low engine power operating range in order to maintain the compressor wheel at an increased speed.