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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2016
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Vanco Smiljanovski, Bedburg, DE;
Helmut Matthias Kindl, Aachen, DE;
Joerg Kemmerling, Monschau, DE;
Franz Arnd Sommerhoff, Aachen, DE;
Franz J. Brinkmann, Huerth-Efferen, DE;
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems are provided for a pressure-charged combustion engine having at least one cylinder head comprising at least two cylinders. In one example, a system may include each cylinder having at least one outlet port, at least two cylinders configured to form two groups each comprising at least one cylinder, exhaust lines joined together to form an overall exhaust line which provides an exhaust manifold, the exhaust lines connected to an exhaust turbocharger and equipped with rotor blades wherein each rotor blade comprises a first inlet edge facing the flows and a second inlet edge facing the flows connected to one another at a connection point forming an inflection.