Patent ID: 8205448

Claim:
A turbocharger ( 1 ) having a compressor ( 2 ), having a turbine ( 4 ) which is connected to the compressor ( 2 ) by means of a shaft ( 3 ) and which has an exhaust-gas inlet ( 5 ) and an exhaust-gas outlet ( 7 ), having a bypass line ( 6 ) which branches off from the exhaust-gas inlet ( 5 ) so as to bypass the turbine ( 4 ) and leads to the exhaust-gas outlet ( 7 ), and in which is arranged a charge pressure regulating flap ( 16 ) which has a flap plate ( 13 ) which is connected by means of a connecting device ( 12 ) to a flap shaft ( 14 ), wherein the connecting device ( 12 ) has a conical contact surface ( 17 ) which is operatively connected to a curved mating surface ( 18 ), and wherein the central axis ( 20 ) of the flap shaft ( 14 ) lies substantially in a common plane with the sealing plane ( 19 ) of the flap plate ( 13 ).