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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2014
Applicant:
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Inventors:
Patrick Matthews, West Bloomfield, MI (US);
Patrick James Hertrich, Novi, MI (US);
Daniel Lawerence Sylvester, West Bloomfield, MI (US);
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F02D 23/00 (2006.01); F02B 37/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F02B 37/183 (2013.01); Y02T 10/144 (2013.01);
Abstract
A wastegate assembly in a turbine of an internal combustion engine is provided. The wastegate assembly includes a wastegate conduit bypassing a turbine rotor, a valve sealing plate configured to seat and seal on a wastegate conduit outlet in a closed position, and a flow diverting tab coupled to the valve sealing plate, extending upstream of the wastegate conduit outlet, and separating a wastegate conduit outflow and a turbine rotor outflow.