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Utility
Turbocharger Having a Thermal Dam
21 Oct 21
A turbocharger includes a shaft extending along an axis, a compressor wheel coupled to a first end of the shaft, a turbine wheel coupled to a second end of the shaft and having a first diameter; and a bearing housing extending about the shaft.
Raj Chandramohanan
Filed: 17 Apr 20
Utility
Electrical device having compact connector assembly suited for high power applications
19 Oct 21
An electrical device with a conductor assembly having a conductor member and a nut.
Philip J. Francis, Keith D. Vanmaanen, Branden L. Reeves
Filed: 23 Jul 18
Utility
Electric drive module with independent drive units having friction brakes that are selectively engageable to one another
19 Oct 21
An electric drive module that includes a housing, a pair of drive units and a coupling unit.
Joel Maguire, Paul Diemer, Hakan Yilmaz
Filed: 9 Sep 20
Utility
Turbocharger Including a Wastegate Assembly
14 Oct 21
A turbocharger includes a turbine housing and a wastegate assembly.
Matthew Brian Cooley
Filed: 10 Apr 20
Utility
Wastegate Assembly
14 Oct 21
A wastegate assembly for controlling flow of exhaust gas includes a valve element having a valve body and a valve shaft.
Dominic William DePaoli, Aaron Date, Michael Daniel Cola, Georg Scholz, Marc Werner, Christian Cossmann, Jakob Penth, Christoph Müller, Ravi Patil
Filed: 20 Sep 19
Utility
Bus bar assembly for electric machine winding
12 Oct 21
An electric machine includes a stator assembly and a bus bar assembly.
Ian N. Alsman, Christopher Bledsoe, Kirk Neet
Filed: 12 Nov 19
Utility
Wastegate assembly and turbocharger including the same
5 Oct 21
A wastegate assembly includes a valve arm moveable between a first position and a second position to control flow of exhaust gas to a turbine housing interior of a turbocharger.
Alexander George Milburn, Matthew Brian Cooley, Kai Tanaka
Filed: 5 Dec 19
Utility
Spool valve plug
5 Oct 21
A spool valve assembly, configured to control the flow of fluid, includes a spool valve, configured to move axially along an axis to control fluid flow, having a spool cavity and a plurality of spool apertures that communicate fluid between the spool cavity and an outside surface of the spool valve; a valve sleeve, in which the spool valve is concentrically positioned, that slidably receives the spool valve; and a valve plug, received within the spool cavity, having at least one plug aperture and a plug cavity, wherein the spool apertures at least partially overlap the plug aperture(s) in a radial direction to permit the flow of fluid between the plug cavity and the outside surface within a defined flow rate variance regardless of the angular position of the valve plug relative to the angular position of the spool valve.
Brian T. Kenyon, Joshua D. Plumeau
Filed: 20 May 20
Utility
Distributed Cascaded Winding for Electric Machines
30 Sep 21
A stator includes a cylindrical core with a plurality of longitudinally extending slots, a first winding set formed as a first cascaded wire in two radial layers of the slots, a second winding set formed as a second cascaded wire in two other radial layers of the slots, and a jumper connecting the first and second wires.
Kirk Neet
Filed: 11 Jun 21
Utility
Bearing Housing Assembly and Turbocharger Including the Same
30 Sep 21
A turbocharger includes a shaft extending between a first shaft end coupled to a turbine wheel, and a second shaft end coupled to a compressor wheel.
Jason Paul Moscetti
Filed: 24 Mar 20
Utility
Clutch Apparatus
30 Sep 21
An excessive torque releasing type clutch apparatus which can release torque when an excessive torque is input thereto, comprises an outer ring 3, an inner ring 5 arranged radially inside and in coaxial with the center axis of the outer ring 3 and rotatably relative to the outer ring 3, a torque transmitting portion that is capable of transmitting torque having the center axis as the center between the outer ring 3 and the inner ring 5, and a restricting mechanism for restricting a torque that exceeds a predetermined torque from being input from an input torque transmitting member to a driving ring of the outer ring 3 and the inner ring 5 and an inverse torque that is input to a driven ring of the outer ring 3 and the inner ring 5 and exceeds the predetermined torque from being input to the input torque transmitting member.
Shinji OKADA, Akira IWANO, Osamu KATAYAMA, Yukiyoshi SUZUKI, Ryo KINOSHITA
Filed: 17 Mar 21
Utility
Drive gear including integrated target pattern
28 Sep 21
A transfer case is disclosed that includes an input shaft, a primary output shaft, a secondary output shaft, a gear reduction mechanism that selectively couples the input shaft to the primary output shaft in a high range and a low range, a secondary torque transfer mechanism that operates to selectively couple the primary output shaft to the secondary output shaft to engage a four-wheel drive mode, and an actuation mechanism that operates the gear reduction mechanism and the secondary torque transfer mechanism.
Christopher Anthony Chirco
Filed: 2 Jul 18
Utility
Turbine housing of a turbocharger
28 Sep 21
A turbocharger includes a turbine housing.
Matthew Brian Cooley, Kai Tanaka
Filed: 13 Dec 19
Utility
Turbocharger with variable turbine geometry
28 Sep 21
The invention relates to a turbocharger with a variable turbine geometry, comprising a turbine (1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) with a turbine rotor (1) which is rotatably mounted in a turbine housing (2); the turbine (1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) comprising a blade bearing ring (5) being arranged about a turbine axis (A); wherein the blade bearing ring (5) supports a number of blade shafts (6); wherein adjustable guide blades (7) are arranged at the blade shafts (6) on a front side of the blade bearing ring (5); wherein blade levers (8) are arranged at the blade shafts (6) on a rear side of the blade bearing ring (5); wherein an adjustment ring (9) is arranged coaxially with the blade bearing ring (5) and engages with the blade levers (8), a rotation of the adjustment ring (9) relative to the blade bearing ring (5) providing for an adjustment of the guide blades (7); wherein the adjustment ring (9) comprises at least one axially protruding bearing stop (10), the bearing stop (10) being provided by deformation of the adjustment ring (5).
Thomas Ramb
Filed: 18 Oct 19
Utility
Torque Limiting Coupler for an Electric Motor Shaft
23 Sep 21
A torque-limiting coupler for connecting an electric motor to a rotatable input of a vehicle is provided, including: a rigid frame that is configured to be coupled to one of the rotatable input or an output shaft of the electric motor; and an elastic member, configured to engage the other of the rotatable input or the output shaft of the electric motor, that engages the rigid frame such that the elastic member substantially maintains its shape and inhibits angular displacement between the rotatable input and the output shaft when an amount of torque received from the output shaft is below a predetermined torque limit, the elastic member changes shape permitting angular displacement between the rotatable input and the output shaft when an amount of torque received from the output shaft exceeds the predetermined torque limit.
Daniel BROWN, Shawn BLACKMUR, Michael CLOSE
Filed: 19 Jul 19
Utility
a Lubrication System for an Axle Drive
23 Sep 21
An axle drive (1) for a vehicle is provided, comprising a differential (2) and an electrical motor (17) in driving connection with said differential (2) via a disconnect (7), wherein lubrication of said axle drive (1) is adjusted automatically by means of the position of said disconnect (7).
KARL WILSON, MAGNUS PERSSON
Filed: 27 Sep 17
Utility
Liquid-cooled enclosure for turbocharger power module
21 Sep 21
A turbocharger includes a bearing housing containing a motor within an interior portion of the bearing housing.
Tyler R. Garrard
Filed: 12 Dec 19
Utility
Axle assembly for use in a vehicle
21 Sep 21
An axle assembly for use in a vehicle includes an axle housing extending along an axle axis.
Joel Maguire, John Barlage, John Ashley Peterson
Filed: 10 Mar 20
Utility
Dual actuating variable cam
21 Sep 21
A variable camshaft timing system including a first camshaft phaser having an input that is configured to receive rotational force from a crankshaft and an output that is configured to link with a first camshaft of a concentric camshaft assembly to change the angular position of the first camshaft relative to a crankshaft; and a second camshaft phaser having an output that is configured to link with a second camshaft of the concentric camshaft assembly to change the angular position of the second camshaft relative to the crankshaft, wherein the first camshaft is concentrically positioned to the first camshaft and the first camshaft phaser is mechanically linked to the second camshaft phaser to communicate rotational force from the crankshaft to the second camshaft phaser through the first camshaft phaser and the mechanical link.
Chad McCloy, Xiaoyu Lu
Filed: 31 Jan 19
Utility
Rotating multimode clutch module for all wheel drive system
21 Sep 21
In an all-wheel drive (AWD) vehicle, torque carrying connections are provided between the powertrain and all four wheels.
Brett M. Peglowski, Keith Martin, Calahan Campton, Christopher E. Blair, Brett J. Lee
Filed: 1 Mar 17