Modular Turbocharger Silencer with Standardized Interfaces
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing silencer systems for internal combustion engines with turbochargers and charge air coolers require a large variety of components to accommodate different turbocharging configurations, leading to inefficiencies and increased complexity.
Innovation Solution
A modular silencer design that includes a turbocharger module, resonator modules with independent chambers, and a charge air cooler module, allowing for flexible connection and configuration of components to achieve different silencing characteristics and frequency dampening, with interfaces that can be detachably or permanently connected using standardized plug connections or material joining.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a large variant variety of silencer components is made available to accommodate different turbocharging configurations, then adaptability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements universal connection interfaces that can accommodate different turbocharging configurations. The silencer system uses standardized inlet and outlet interfaces that can connect to various turbocharger types and charge air cooler configurations, eliminating the need for multiple specialized component variants while maintaining adaptability to different engine setups
Solution Approach 2:
The silencer is divided into modular segments including a turbocharger connection module, resonator chamber module, and charge air cooler connection module. This segmentation allows flexible assembly and disassembly to accommodate different configurations without requiring a complete set of specialized components for each variant
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple resonator modules with different resonator chambers are connected in series, then frequency dampening capability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The resonator modules use standardized connection interfaces that allow different resonator chamber configurations to be connected in series. Each module can be designed for specific frequency ranges, and the universal interfaces enable flexible combination of modules to achieve broad frequency dampening coverage without requiring completely different module designs for each frequency range
Solution Approach 2:
Multiple resonator chambers are arranged in a nested or series configuration where each resonator module contains its own choke and chamber geometry optimized for specific frequencies. The modules are nested in series along the gas flow path, with each module contributing to dampening different frequency ranges, creating a compact multi-functional resonator system
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This modular approach enables the production of various silencers with customizable silencing characteristics, reducing component variability and complexity while allowing for efficient frequency dampening across different configurations, thereby improving the functionality and production of silencers for internal combustion engines.
Implementation Method 1
at least one resonator model with a passage duct, at least one independent resonator chamber, which via at least one choke communicates with the passage duct
Data Source
AI summary
A silencer for an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle having a turbocharger and a charge air cooler is provided. The silencer includes a turbocharger module with a passage duct. An inlet interface is fastened to an outlet connector of the turbocharger of the internal combustion engine. An outlet interface of the turbocharger module is fastened one or more modules configured as a resonator module and/or a charge air cooler module. An outlet interface of the module most remote from the outlet connector of the turbocharger is fastened to an inlet interface of a feed line for the charge air cooler of the internal combustion engine.