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US 8,801,379 B2Granted
Wheel and replaceable nose piece
AssigneeHoneywell International Inc.
InventorsJohn Frederick Allen, Andrei Minculescu, Sigismund Becze, Jair Corpus
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Abstract
An assembly includes a nose piece and a boreless compressor wheel having a nose end configured for receipt of the nose piece and a receptacle at a base end configured for receipt of a rotatable shaft. A method includes fitting a nose piece to a boreless compressor wheel, measuring unbalance and, based in part on the measuring, removing material from the nose piece. Various other examples of devices, assemblies, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.
Claims20
An assembly comprising:
- a boreless compressor wheel that comprises
- a nose piece with one or more balance cuts and
- a receptacle configured for receipt of a shaft;
- and
- a turbine wheel that comprises a shaft having an end received by the receptacle of the boreless compressor wheel.
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A turbocharger comprising:
- a boreless compressor wheel that comprises
- a nose piece with one or more balance cuts and
- a receptacle configured for receipt of a shaft;
- and
- a turbine wheel that comprises a shaft having an end received by the receptacle of the boreless compressor wheel.
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A method comprising:
- fitting a nose piece to a boreless compressor wheel;
- measuring unbalance;
- and
- based in part on the measuring, removing material from the nose piece.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.