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US 10,119,549 B2Granted
Exhaust-gas turbocharger
AssigneeBorgWarner Inc.
InventorJuergen Tschirschke
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Abstract
An exhaust-gas turbocharger (1) with a turbine housing (2) which has a turbine housing inlet (8) and a turbine housing outlet (9) for exhaust gas, and which has a wastegate duct (19) between the turbine housing inlet (8) and the turbine housing outlet (9), and a flap arrangement (10) having a pivotable flap plate for opening and closing the wastegate duct (19), wherein the flap plate is in the form of an elastic spring disk (11).
Claims8
An exhaust-gas turbocharger (1) comprising:
- a turbine housing (2)
- which has a turbine housing inlet (8) and a turbine housing outlet (9) for exhaust gas, and
- which has a wastegate duct (19) between the turbine housing inlet (8) and the turbine housing outlet (9), and
- a flap arrangement (10) having a pivotable flap plate for opening and closing the wastegate duct (19),
- wherein
- the flap plate is an elastic spring disk (11),
- the flap arrangement (10) comprises a flap shaft (13) rotatably mounted in the turbine housing (2) and comprises a lever (12), wherein the lever (12) connects the spring disk (11) to the flap shaft (13) in a rotationally conjoint manner, and
- the spring disk (11) comprises a recess, and the lever (12) is connected to the spring disk (11) by means of a pin (16) which projects through the recess.
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