Patent ID: 8677750

Claim:
A unit for an internal combustion engine, comprising a turbocharger unit intended to be mounted on the engine, and an auxiliary component for said engine having a body adjacent to the turbocharger unit and provided with means for mounting thereof on the engine independently from the turbocharger unit, wherein said auxiliary component has a fluid outlet or inlet arranged immediately adjacent to a fluid inlet or outlet of the turbocharger unit, but not in contact therewith, and wherein said unit further includes a cylindrical sealing member, resiliently deformable, having opposite ends sealingly associated respectively to said fluid outlet or inlet of the auxiliary component and to said fluid inlet or outlet of the turbocharger unit, wherein: the means for mounting the auxiliary component on the engine comprise a bracket intended to be mounted on the engine and having a wall fixed on a front surface of said auxiliary component into which said fluid outlet or inlet ends up, the fluid inlet or outlet of the turbocharger unit is in form of a cylindrical fitting, said cylindrical sealing member has a first end fitted over said cylindrical fitting of the turbocharger unit and a second end inserted with clearance through an opening of said wall of the fixing bracket and ending with an annular flange pressed between said wall and said front surface of said auxiliary component.