Mixed flow turbine and turbocharger

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12460562-B2
Application number	US-202218849720-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 28, 2022
Priority date	Mar 28, 2022
Publication date	Nov 4, 2025
Grant date	Nov 4, 2025

Abstract

This mixed flow turbine is provided with a turbine wheel comprising a hub and blades provided at intervals in a circumferential direction of the hub on an outer peripheral surface of the hub. The tip ends of the leading edges of the blades are positioned on an outer side in the radial direction of the turbine wheel than the hub ends of the leading edges. When a distance between the downstream end of the outer peripheral surface of the hub and a rotational axis line of the turbine wheel is Dh and the average of distances between respective positions from the hub ends to the tip ends at the leading edges and the rotational axis line is Eave, Dh/Eave>0.4 is satisfied.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1 . A mixed flow turbine comprising:
a turbine wheel including
a hub, and
blades provided on an outer peripheral surface of the hub at intervals in a circumferential direction of the hub,
wherein tip ends of leading edges of the blades are positioned on an outer side in a radial direction of the turbine wheel with respect to hub ends of the leading edges, and when a distance between a downstream end of the outer peripheral surface of the hub and a rotational axis of the turbine wheel is defined as Dh and an average value of distances between each position from the hub ends to the tip ends at the leading edges and the rotational axis is defined as Eave, a relationship Dh/Eave>0.4 is satisfied, wherein the mixed flow turbine further comprises: a casing that accommodates the turbine wheel, wherein the casing includes
a tubular shroud wall that accommodates the turbine wheel,
a scroll outer peripheral wall that is connected to one end side of the shroud wall and that extends along the circumferential direction, and
a dividing wall that is provided on an inner side of the scroll outer peripheral wall and that partitions an inside of the scroll outer peripheral wall into a front side scroll flow path and a rear side scroll flow path that are arranged in an axial direction of the turbine wheel,
wherein in a cross section including the rotational axis, an angle formed by an extension line of a tip end of the dividing wall and the rotational axis on a back surface side of the turbine wheel is smaller than 90 degrees, and wherein in a cross section including the rotational axis, the extension line intersects the leading edge at a radially inner side with respect to a midpoint point in the radial direction of the leading edge.

2 . The mixed flow turbine according to claim 1 , wherein the tip ends of the leading edges of the turbine wheel are positioned on a downstream side in a rotation direction of the turbine wheel with respect to the hub ends of the leading edges.

3 . The mixed flow turbine according to claim 1 , wherein, when a position of a tongue portion of the scroll outer peripheral wall is defined as a position of 0° in the circumferential direction, a rotation direction of the turbine wheel is defined as a positive direction of a position in the circumferential direction, and a distance between a tip end of the dividing wall and the hub for each position in the circumferential direction is defined as d,
the distance d in at least a part of a range from 180° to 360° in the circumferential direction is greater than the distance d in at least a part of a range from 0° to 180° in the circumferential direction.

4 . The mixed flow turbine according to claim 3 , wherein the distance d is constant in the range from 0° to 180° in the circumferential direction.

5 . The mixed flow turbine according to claim 3 , wherein in the dividing wall, the distance d at each position in a range on a downstream side from a first position, which is a position of 180° or more in the circumferential direction, is greater than the distance d at each position in a range from 0° to 180° in the circumferential direction.

6 . The mixed flow turbine according to claim 5 , wherein, when a value obtained by summing up A/R of the front side scroll flow path and A/R of the rear side scroll flow path for each position in the circumferential direction is defined as total A/R, a distribution of the total A/R with respect to the position in the circumferential direction is defined as a total A/R distribution, an entire flow path defined by an inner surface of the scroll outer peripheral wall is defined as a front and rear merging portion, and a distribution of A/R of the front and rear merging portion with respect to the position in the circumferential direction is defined as a merging portion A/R distribution,
an inclination of the total A/R distribution at the first position is 95% or more and 105% or less of an inclination of the merging portion A/R distribution at the first position.

7 . The mixed flow turbine according to claim 1 ,
wherein a value obtained by dividing a distance between a center of a flow path cross section of the front side scroll flow path and the rotational axis at a position of 180° in the circumferential direction by a distance between a tongue portion of the scroll outer peripheral wall and the rotational axis is 1.28 or less, and a value obtained by dividing the distance between the center of the flow path cross section of the front side scroll flow path and the rotational axis by A/R of the front side scroll flow path for the position of 180° in the circumferential direction is 5.7 or less.

8 . A turbocharger comprising:
the mixed flow turbine according to claim 1 .

9 . The mixed flow turbine according to claim 1 ,
wherein the leading edge extends at a constant inclination angle from the hub ends to the tip ends.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Engine & Turbocharger Ltd

Inventors

• Hoshi Toru
• Yokoyama Takao
• Yoshida Toyotaka

Classifications

• Y02T10/12

  Improving ICE efficiencies · CPC title

• F05D2240/30

  Characteristics of rotor blades, i.e. of any element transforming dynamic fluid energy to or from rotational energy and being attached to a rotor · CPC title

• F05D2240/24

  for turbines · CPC title

• F05D2240/14

  Casings or housings protecting or supporting assemblies within · CPC title

• F05D2220/40

  in turbochargers · CPC title