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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2016
Honeywell International Inc., Morris Plains, NJ (US);
Honeywell International Inc., Morris Plains, NJ (US);
Abstract
An assembly can include a turbine housing that includes a wastegate passage that extends to a wastegate seat; a wastegate valve that includes a control arm coupled to a wastegate shaft that extends to a wastegate plug; a control linkage operatively coupled to the control arm where the control linkage includes a control axis; an actuator operatively coupled to the control linkage for translation of the control linkage in a direction of the control axis; and a spring operatively coupled at an off-axis angle to the control axis of the control linkage where no load or a partial load is exerted to provide a clearance for centering of the wastegate plug in a closed state and where an increased load is exerted to reduce the clearance in an open state.