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US 2017/0361820 A1Published application
Method and system for an aspirator for a brake booster
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsXiaogang Zhang, Brad Alan VanDerWege, Joseph Norman Ulrey
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Abstract
Methods and systems are provided for providing vacuum to a brake booster via an aspirator system. In one example, a system may include an aspirator system fluidly coupled with a brake booster with no intervening components located therebetween.
Claims17
An aspirator system, comprising:
- a volute shaped aspirator with a linear aspirator protruding through a spiral of the volute aspirator, the linear aspirator comprising a venturi passage fluidly coupled to a brake booster, and where the aspirators are fluidly coupled to front or rear grills via a conical aspirator with no other intervening components located therebetween.
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A system comprising:
- an engine with one or more cooling fans;
- an aspirator system with at least one inlet downstream of and in fluid communication with the one or more cooling fans;
- first, second, and third aspirator portions of the aspirator system fluidly coupled and capable of receiving motive flow from a front grill and expelling the motive flow out through a rear grill;
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- a brake booster comprising a passage with a check valve fluidly coupled with the first aspirator portion with no other intervening components located therebetween.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.