Exhaust gas turbine for an exhaust gas turbocharger
AssigneeIHI Charging Systems International GmbH
InventorsHermann Burmester, Akihiro Ohkita
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Abstract
In an exhaust gas turbine for a turbocharger with a spiral housing consisting of sheet metal surrounding a guide vane structure and having a tangential inlet funnel and an outer shell which also consists of sheet metal and surrounds the spiral housing with an air gap, the spiral housing and the outer shell are pot-shaped and the ends adjacent the guide vane structure are delimited by parts of the guide vane structure, the spiral housing being connected to these parts by means of at least one axially flexible element.
Claims15
An exhaust gas turbine (10) for a turbocharger comprising a spiral housing (11) consisting of sheet metal and surrounding a guide vane structure (13, 17, 18) and also forming an inlet funnel (41) which extends tangentially, an outer shell (21) of sheet metal surrounding the spiral housing (11) with an air gap (22), the spiral housing (11) and the outer shell (21) being pot-shaped and having end sides adjacent the guide vane structure (13, 17) which are delimited by parts of the guide vane structure (13, 17, 18), the spiral housing (11) being connected to said parts by means of at least one axially flexible element (32).
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