Patent attributes
A centrifugal compressor includes: a housing including an intake flow path; a compressor impeller disposed in the intake flow path; an accommodation chamber formed upstream of the compressor impeller in the housing; a movable member disposed in the accommodation chamber and configured to be movable between a retracted position where the movable member is retracted from the intake flow path and a protruding position where the movable member protrudes from the accommodation chamber into the intake flow path, the protruding position being located closer to the intake flow path with respect to the retracted position, and a contacting portion and a non-contacting portion provided on an accommodation chamber opposing surface of the accommodation chamber, the accommodation chamber opposing surface being positioned upstream of the movable member, the contacting portion being contactable with the movable member, the non-contacting portion being non-contactable with the movable member.
