Patent ID: 8051660

Claim:
A charging device for a motor vehicle, comprising: a housing; a shaft including a turbine wheel, a compressor wheel, a turbine side and a compressor side, where the shaft is supported in the housing, and which carries the turbine wheel on the turbine side, and the compressor wheel on the compressor side; at least one bearing device in the housing, wherein the shaft is supported by the at least one bearing device; a lubricant supply channel, wherein the lubricant supply channel is for supplying lubricant to the bearing device, a filter device with at least one filter element, the filter element having a collar, wherein in the lubricant supply channel, and the filter device with at least one filter element is arranged, a spring device; a seal seat; wherein the filter element is pretensioned by the spring device against the seal seat, wherein the spring device and the filter element are such that at exceeding a certain lubricant threshold pressure, the filter element disengages from the seal seat, and releases a bypass which bypasses the filter element; and wherein the spring device rests-on one of the collar, the collar projecting radially outwards, and on the housing of the charging device.