Exhaust-gas turbocharger

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9494047-B2
Application number	US-201113879814-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 21, 2011
Priority date	Oct 27, 2010
Publication date	Nov 15, 2016
Grant date	Nov 15, 2016

Abstract

An exhaust-gas turbocharger ( 1 ) having a compressor ( 2 ) which has a compressor wheel ( 3 ) in a compressor housing ( 4 ); a turbine ( 5 ) which has a turbine wheel ( 6 ) in a turbine housing ( 7 ); and a bearing housing ( 8 ) which holds a stationary bearing bush ( 9 ) for a rotor shaft ( 10 ) and which has, at the compressor side, a bearing housing cover ( 11 ). The bearing bush ( 9 ) is provided with axial bearing surfaces ( 12, 13 ) and is fixed in the bearing housing ( 8 ) in a non-positively locking fashion.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An exhaust-gas turbocharger ( 1 ) having
a compressor ( 2 ) including a compressor wheel ( 3 ) in a compressor housing ( 4 );
a turbine ( 5 ) including a turbine wheel ( 6 ) in a turbine housing ( 7 );
a rotor shaft ( 10 ), wherein said compressor wheel ( 3 ) is mounted at one end of the shaft ( 10 ) and said turbine wheel ( 6 ) is mounted at the other end of the shaft ( 10 ); and
a bearing housing ( 8 ), wherein the compressor housing ( 4 ) is mounted to one side of the bearing housing ( 8 ) and the turbine housing ( 7 ) is mounted to the opposite side of the bearing housing ( 8 ), which bearing housing ( 8 ) supports a stationary unitary bearing bush ( 9 ) for both the radial mounting and also the axial mounting of the rotor shaft ( 10 ) and which bearing housing ( 8 ) has, at the side to which the compressor housing ( 4 ) is mounted, a bearing housing cover ( 11 ),
wherein the stationary unitary, bearing bush ( 9 ) is provided with at least one radial bearing surface for radial support of said rotor shaft ( 10 ), with first and second axial bearing surfaces ( 12 , 13 ) at first and second axial ends of the stationary unitary bearing bush ( 9 ), and wherein a preload device ( 14 ) is provided for generating an axial fixing spring force for the stationary unitary bearing bush ( 9 ) greater than the maximum axial force occurring in the direction of the compressor during operation of the exhaust-gas turbocharger, and wherein said stationary unitary bearing bush ( 9 ) is fixed against rotation.

2. An exhaust-gas turbocharger ( 1 ) having
a compressor ( 2 ) including a compressor wheel ( 3 ) in a compressor housing ( 4 );
a turbine ( 5 ) including a turbine wheel ( 6 ) in a turbine housing ( 7 );
a rotor shaft ( 10 ), wherein said compressor wheel ( 3 ) is mounted at one end of the shaft ( 10 ) and said turbine wheel ( 6 ) is mounted at the other end of the shaft ( 10 ); and
a bearing housing ( 8 ), wherein the compressor housing ( 4 ) is mounted to one side of the bearing housing ( 8 ) and the turbine housing ( 7 ) is mounted to the opposite side of the bearing housing ( 8 ), which bearing housing ( 8 ) supports a stationary unitary bearing bush ( 9 ) for both the radial mounting and also the axial mounting of the rotor shaft ( 10 ) and which bearing housing ( 8 ) has, at the side to which the compressor housing ( 4 ) is mounted, a bearing housing cover ( 11 ),
wherein the stationary unitary, bearing bush ( 9 ) is provided with at least one radial bearing surface for radial support of said rotor shaft ( 10 ), with first and second axial bearing surfaces ( 12 , 13 ) at first and second axial ends of the stationary unitary bearing bush ( 9 ), and with an abutment collar ( 10 ) having first and second axial faces, wherein one abutment collar axial face is flush against the bearing housing, and the other is acted upon by a preload device ( 14 ) for generating an axial fixing spring force which spring force acts axially against the stationary unitary bearing bush ( 9 ) greater than the maximum axial force occurring in the direction of the compressor during operation of the exhaust-gas turbocharger, wherein said stationary unitary bearing bush ( 9 ) is fixed against rotation, and
wherein the preload device ( 14 ) has a first end region and a second end region, and wherein the a first end region ( 15 ) bears against the bearing homing cover ( 11 ) and the second end region ( 16 ) bears against an abutment collar ( 17 ) of the bearing bush ( 9 ).

3. The exhaust-gas turbocharger as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the preload device ( 14 ) is a plate spring.

4. The exhaust-gas turbocharger as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the rotor shaft ( 10 ) has a shaft step ( 18 ) on the turbine side of the rotor shaft ( 10 ) as a counterpart surface for the axial bearing surface ( 13 ).

5. The exhaust-gas turbocharger as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the axial bearing surface ( 12 ) closest to the compressor is supported against a sealing bush ( 19 ) fixed on the rotor shaft ( 10 ).

6. The exhaust-gas turbocharger as claimed in claim 5 , wherein the bearing housing ( 8 ) has at least one housing shoulder ( 20 , 21 ) for axially supporting the bearing bush ( 9 ).

7. The exhaust-gas turbocharger as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the preload device ( 14 ) and the bearing housing cover ( 11 ) delimit an oil collecting chamber ( 22 ).

8. The exhaust-gas turbocharger as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the oil collecting chamber ( 22 ) has at least one oil outflow opening ( 23 ).

Assignees

• Schumnig Oliver
• Borgwarner Inc

Inventors

• Schumnig Oliver

Classifications

• F16C17/10

  for both radial and axial load · CPC title

• F16C25/04

  self-adjusting · CPC title

• F01D25/164 Primary

  Flexible supports; Vibration damping means associated with the bearing · CPC title

• F05D2220/40

  in turbochargers · CPC title

• F16C27/02

  Sliding-contact bearings · CPC title