Bearing housing oil spray groove
AssigneeBorgWarner Inc.
InventorsJONATHAN REID WILLIAMS, Erwin Perry Ellwood, III
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Abstract
A product may be provided for use with a turbocharging system. A housing may be configured to house a bearing. A shaft may extend through the bearing. A turbine wheel may be connected to one end of the shaft. The housing may include a wall forming an opening and defining a surface facing the opening. The bearing may have a segment extending into the opening and mating with the surface. The wall may include an oil spray groove opening through the surface and having an outlet directed at the shaft.
Claims15
A product comprising a housing configured to house a bearing;
- a shaft extending through the bearing;
- a turbine wheel connected to one end of the shaft;
- wherein the housing includes a wall forming an opening and defining a surface facing the opening, the bearing having a segment extending into the opening and mating with the surface;
- wherein the wall includes a groove opening through the surface and having an outlet directed at the shaft.
A product comprising a housing, a bearing disposed in the housing and defining a cylindrical opening, a shaft extending through the cylindrical opening and rotating about an axis defining an axial direction, a turbine wheel connected to one end of the shaft, the housing includes a support wall that extends in the axial direction and that turns inward toward the axis where it forms a wall opening, the bearing having a segment extending into the wall opening, wherein the wall includes a groove open to the wall opening and having an outlet directed at the shaft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.