Ship engine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9777619-B2
Application number	US-201314373333-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 11, 2013
Priority date	Jan 20, 2012
Publication date	Oct 3, 2017
Grant date	Oct 3, 2017

Abstract

A ship engine includes a first turbocharger, a first intercooler, a second turbocharger, and a second intercooler. The first turbocharger is arranged at one end of the ship engine with respect to a crank axis direction. The first intercooler and the second turbocharger are arranged in an end portion of the ship engine with respect to a device width direction. The first intercooler and the second turbocharger are arranged side by side in the crank axis direction. The second intercooler is arranged at the other end (at the side opposite to the side where the first turbocharger is arranged) of the ship engine with respect to the crank axis direction.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A ship engine comprising:
a first turbocharger that supplies air by using an exhaust gas;
a first intercooler into which a gas having passed through the first turbocharger flows, the first intercooler being configured to cool the gas whose temperature has been elevated in the first turbocharger;
a second turbocharger into which the gas having passed through the first intercooler flows, the second turbocharger being configured to supply air by using an exhaust gas;
a second intercooler into which the gas having passed through the second turbocharger flows, the second intercooler being configured to cool the gas whose temperature has been elevated in the second turbocharger; and
a crankshaft, wherein a longitudinal direction of the crankshaft defines a crank axis direction,
the first turbocharger being arranged proximate a first end portion of the ship engine with respect to a crank axis direction, the second intercooler being arranged proximate a second end portion of the ship engine with respect to the crank axis direction, each of the first turbocharger and second intercooler being arranged along a width direction perpendicular to a height direction of the ship engine and perpendicular to the crank axis direction,
the first intercooler and the second turbocharger being arranged proximate a side end portion of the engine with respect to the width direction and side by side in the crank axis direction with the first intercooler located closer to the first turbocharger than to the second turbocharger.

2. The ship engine according to claim 1 , comprising a cover in the shape of a flat plate that covers a valve cover, wherein
when viewed in a top view cover, the first turbocharger, the first intercooler, the second turbocharger, and the second intercooler are arranged at only three of four sides of the cover.

3. The ship engine according to claim 2 , wherein
an upper surface of the ship engine and a surface of the cover are identical,
when a height of the position of a bisector bisecting the distance between the upper surface and a bottom surface of the ship engine that is a surface at the side opposite to the upper surface is defined as a reference height, all of the first turbocharger, the first intercooler, the second turbocharger, and the second intercooler are arranged higher than the reference height.

4. The ship engine according to claim 1 , comprising an intake manifold into which a gas having passed through the second intercooler flows, wherein
a path of the gas extending from the first turbocharger to the first intercooler is shorter than a path of the gas extending from the first intercooler to the second turbocharger, and a path of the gas extending from the second turbocharger to the second intercooler is shorter than a path of the gas extending from the second intercooler to the intake manifold.

Assignees

• Yanmar Co Ltd
• Fev Gmbh

Inventors

• Hibino Mitsuhiro
• Maetani Kazuki
• Haubner Frank
• Slotman Jeroen
• Baehr Moritz

Classifications

• F02B37/013

  with exhaust-driven pumps arranged in series · CPC title

• Y02T10/144

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• Y02T10/146

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• F05D2260/211

  by intercooling, e.g. during a compression cycle · CPC title

• F02B29/0412 Primary

  Multiple heat exchangers arranged in parallel or in series · CPC title