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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2015
Honeywell International Inc., Morris Plains, NJ (US);
Manuel Marques, Richardmenil, FR;
Jean-Jacques Laissus, Thaon les Vosges, FR;
Honeywell International Inc., Morris Plains, NJ (US);
Abstract
A turbine housing includes a bore, a wastegate seat and a wastegate passage; a bushing disposed at least in part in the bore; a rotatable wastegate shaft that includes a shoulder and a control end; a control arm operatively coupled to the wastegate shaft where the bushing is disposed between a surface of the control arm and the shoulder; a wastegate arm that extends from the wastegate shaft where the shoulder is disposed between the wastegate arm and the control end of the wastegate shaft; and a wastegate plug that extends from the wastegate arm where the wastegate plug includes a toroidal surface defined by a portion of a torus where, in a closed state, the toroidal surface contacts the conical surface of the wastegate seat to cover the wastegate passage.