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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2012
Manuel Marques, Richardmenil, FR;
Jean-jacques Laissus, Thaon les Vosges, FR;
Manuel Marques, Richardmenil, FR;
Jean-Jacques Laissus, Thaon les Vosges, FR;
Honeywell International Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Abstract
An assembly can include a turbine housing that includes a bore, a wastegate seat and a wastegate passage that extends to the wastegate seat; a bushing configured for receipt by the bore; a rotatable wastegate shaft configured for receipt by the bushing; a wastegate arm extending from the wastegate shaft; and a wastegate plug extending from the wastegate arm where the wastegate plug includes a profile, defined in part by a portion of a torus, for contacting the wastegate seat to cover the wastegate passage. Various other examples of devices, assemblies, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.