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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2012
Applicant:
Daimler Ag, Stuttgart, DE;
Inventors:
Thomas Kuhn, Stuttgart, DE;
Nils Brinkert, Stuttgart, DE;
Assignee:
DAIMLER AG, Stuttgart, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F02D 23/00 (2006.01); F03B 1/04 (2006.01); F01D 1/02 (2006.01); F03D 1/04 (2006.01); F02B 37/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F02B 37/02 (2013.01); F02B 37/025 (2013.01); Y02T 10/144 (2013.01);
Abstract
In an internal combustion engine comprising a turbocharger which includes a turbine which is located in an exhaust tract of the internal combustion engine and to which exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine is applied via an exhaust pipe system of the exhaust tract, the turbine comprises volute passages distributed along the circumference of the turbine wheel and the exhaust gas flows are combined and divided upstream of the turbine into at least two exhaust gas part-flows each of which part-flows is fed to one of the volute passages.