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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2018
Filed:
May. 11, 2015
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Harold Huimin Sun, West Bloomfield, MI (US);
Ben Zhao, Beijing, CN;
Leon Hu, Dearborn, MI (US);
Jianwen James Yi, West Bloomfiled, MI (US);
Eric Warren Curtis, Milan, MI (US);
Jizhong Zhang, West Bloomfield, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
Various systems and methods are described for a variable geometry turbine. In one example, a nozzle vane includes a stationary having a first cambered sliding surface and a sliding vane having a second cambered sliding surface where the second cambered sliding surface includes a flow disrupting feature in contact with the first sliding cambered surface. The sliding vane may be positioned to slide in a direction from substantially tangent along a curved path to an inner circumference of the turbine nozzle and selectively uncover the flow disrupting feature.