Housing and method of manufacturing the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10138879-B2
Application number	US-201414770735-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 3, 2014
Priority date	Apr 23, 2013
Publication date	Nov 27, 2018
Grant date	Nov 27, 2018

Abstract

This housing is a cylindrical housing including a bearing-member mounting portion provided at least one position on the inner circumferential surface, on which bearing-member mounting portion a bearing member is mounted; mounting legs provided at least two vertical positions on the outer circumferential surface; and chucking portions to be chucked by a chuck mechanism of a machining apparatus during machining, provided on the outer circumferential surface, at least three positions in the circumferential direction, corresponding to the position where the bearing-member mounting portion is provided.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A cylindrical housing comprising:
a bearing-member mounting portion which is provided at at least one position on an inner circumferential surface of the housing and on which a bearing member is mounted;
mounting legs provided at at least two vertical positions on an outer circumferential surface of the housing; and
chucking portions to be chucked by a chuck mechanism of a machining apparatus during machining, the chucking portions being provided on the outer circumferential surface of the housing at at least three positions in the circumferential direction, the at least three positions corresponding to a position where the bearing-member mounting portion is provided.

2. The housing according to claim 1 , wherein the housing is an electric compressor housing that constitutes an outer shell of an electric compressor.

3. The housing according to claim 2 , further comprising fastening flange portions to be fastened to a third housing, wherein the fastening flange portions are integrally formed on both sides of the pair of mounting legs provided at the at least two vertical positions.

4. The housing according to claim 2 , further comprising a refrigerant-gas intake port integrally formed so as to adjoin the upper mounting leg of the pair of mounting legs which are provided at the at least two vertical positions.

5. The housing according to claim 1 , wherein the chucking portions are formed of chucking bases which are formed on a cylindrical surface integrally formed on the outer circumferential surface of the housing.

6. The housing according to claim 1 , wherein the chucking portions are provided on the outer circumferential surface of the housing with equal intervals in the circumferential direction.

7. The housing according to claim 1 , wherein
the mounting legs provided at the two vertical positions are provided as a pair of mounting legs and provided on a vertical axis perpendicular to the axial direction of the cylindrical housing, and
one of the chucking portions which are provided at the least three positions in the circumferential direction on the outer circumferential surface of the housing is located on the vertical axis.

8. A method of manufacturing a housing comprising:
chucking the chucking portions with a chuck mechanism of a machining apparatus when machining the housing according to claim 1 ; and
machining a necessary portion while rotating the housing.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Thermal Systems Ltd

Inventors

• Hagita Takayuki
• Kawasaki Masaki

Classifications

• F04C2230/604

  Mounting devices for pumps or compressors · CPC title

• F04B39/14 Primary

  Provisions for readily assembling or disassembling · CPC title

• F04C2230/00

  Manufacture · CPC title

• B23B31/16

  moving radially · CPC title

• F04B39/121

  Casings · CPC title