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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2010
Hirofumi Inoshita, Nagoya, JP;
Koichi Mine, Toyota, JP;
Tomoyuki Isogai, Toyota, JP;
Tatsuo Iida, Anjo, JP;
Akira Sato, Toyota, JP;
Takuya Kajita, Nagoya, JP;
Hideki Yoshikane, Nagoya, JP;
Hirofumi Inoshita, Nagoya, JP;
Koichi Mine, Toyota, JP;
Tomoyuki Isogai, Toyota, JP;
Tatsuo Iida, Anjo, JP;
Akira Sato, Toyota, JP;
Takuya Kajita, Nagoya, JP;
Hideki Yoshikane, Nagoya, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi-ken, JP;
AISIN TAKAOKA CO., LTD., Aichi-ken, JP;
Abstract
A turbocharger includes: a turbine wheel that is driven by exhaust gas from an engine and supported rotatably by a predetermined rotary shaft; and a turbine housing that forms an exhaust gas passage that leads the exhaust gas to the turbine wheel, wherein the turbine housing includes a housing main body constituted by a plate-form member and a reinforcement member that forms the exhaust gas passage together with the housing main body and reinforces the housing main body, the reinforcement member includes a pair of annular portions having a substantially annular shape and provided about an axial center of the rotary shaft at an interval in an axial direction of the rotary shaft, and a connecting portion that connects the pair of annular portions, and the pair of annular portions and the connecting portion are molded integrally by implementing deformation processing on the plate-form member.