Diesel engine and transverse turbocharger

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9303552-B2
Application number	US-201314143757-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 30, 2013
Priority date	Dec 31, 2012
Publication date	Apr 5, 2016
Grant date	Apr 5, 2016

Abstract

A turbocharger is mounted on a diesel engine (e.g., a marine diesel engine), with the turbocharger's turbine axis transverse to a crankshaft axis of the engine.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A diesel engine system, comprising:
a diesel engine; and
a turbocharger that is mounted with a turbine axis of the turbocharger transverse to a crankshaft axis of the engine;
wherein the turbocharger includes a compressor and the engine includes an aftercooler, a compressor outlet of the compressor being connected with the aftercooler by a charge air piping extending from the compressor outlet along a first line angled with reference to the crankshaft ax…

Assignees

• Gen Electric

Inventors

• Ozolins Jason
• Navalagund Mahantesh
• Atz Charles B
• Jayakar Vijayaselvan
• Anandhakrishnan Senthilkumar
• Shitole Pratap Subhash

Classifications

• F02B39/14

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F02B37/00

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F02B29/0475 Primary

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• Y02T10/146

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• F02B67/10

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic