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Title:
WASTE HEAT RECOVERY SYSTEM
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2010101283
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To suppress excessive rotation exceeding a strength limit of a turbine in an engine waste heat recovery system.

The waste heat recovery system 1 includes: an engine body 3; a turbine 4 driven by steam produced by recovering waste heat of an engine 100 in an overheater 7; a first pulley 5 coupled to a shaft 4a of the turbine 4 with an electromagnetic clutch 50; a second pulley 12 provided in a crankshaft 11; a motive energy recovery means for recovering motive energy from the turbine 4 to the crankshaft 11 by means of a belt 6 stretched around the first and second pulleys 5, 12 in a tensioned manner; and an ECU 15 for coupling the first pulley 5 to the shaft 4a of the turbine 4 by means of the electromagnetic clutch 50 when determining that the turbine 4 is excessively rotating to thereby adjust the load exerted on the shaft 4a of the turbine 4.


Inventors:
KOBAYASHI HIDEO
ARISAWA KATSUHIKO
YAMADA KENICHI
HAYASHI KUNIHIKO
HOSOI AKIHITO
SUGAMOTO SHUSAKU
SUGIYAMA TOSHIHISA
Application Number:
JP2008275461A
Publication Date:
May 06, 2010
Filing Date:
October 27, 2008
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
TOYOTA MOTOR CORP
International Classes:
F01K23/06; F01D15/12; F01D21/02; F01K23/10; F01N5/02; F02G5/00; F02G5/02; F02G5/04
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Shuhei Katayama
Toshiyuki Hatta
High Yoshitaka Hayashi