Method of manufacturing turbocharger and turbocharger

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10180143-B2
Application number	US-201514787658-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 23, 2015
Priority date	Mar 4, 2014
Publication date	Jan 15, 2019
Grant date	Jan 15, 2019

Abstract

A method of manufacturing a turbocharger which allows easy performance of assembly operations of a motor rotor and a stator in a motor overhang structural turbocharger is provided. In a method of manufacturing a turbocharger in which a motor is attached to an end portion of a rotor shaft ( 15 ) connected to a compressor portion, the motor includes a cylindrical housing ( 33 ), a stator ( 32 ) accommodated inside the housing ( 33 ), and a motor rotor ( 31 ) which is connected to an end portion of the rotor shaft ( 15 ) with permanent magnets rotating inside the stator ( 32 ), and the method includes a rotor installation step of connecting and attaching the motor rotor ( 31 ) to the rotor shaft ( 15 ), a housing installation step of fixing and supporting the housing ( 33 ) coaxial to the rotor shaft ( 15 ), and a stator installation step of using the housing ( 33 ) as a guide, and inserting the stator ( 32 ) into the housing ( 33 ) such that the stator ( 32 ) does not directly come into contact with the motor rotor ( 31 ) to incorporate the stator ( 32 ) into the housing ( 33 ).

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method of manufacturing a turbocharger, comprising:
attaching a motor to an end portion of a rotor shaft, the rotor shaft being connected to a compressor portion, the motor including a cylindrical housing, a stator being accommodated inside the cylindrical housing, and a motor rotor which is connected to the end portion of the rotor shaft and includes permanent magnets rotatable inside the stator,
wherein the attaching the motor to the end portion of the rotor shaft comprises:
connecting, during rotor installation, the motor rotor to the end portion of the rotor shaft;
mounting a protection tube on an outer circumferential side of the motor rotor connected to the end portion of the rotor shaft, the protection tube comprising a nonmagnetic material, the protection tube further comprising a length sufficient to accommodate the motor rotor, a majority of the outer circumferential side of the motor rotor being accommodated by the protection tube;
fixing and supporting the cylindrical housing to a casing of the turbocharger so as to coaxially install the cylindrical housing to the rotor shaft to which the motor rotor is connected;
guiding and inserting the stator along an inner wall surface of the cylindrical housing between the motor rotor on which the protection tube is mounted and the cylindrical housing coaxially fixed to the rotor shaft, such that the stator does not directly come into contact with the motor rotor to incorporate the stator into the cylindrical housing; and
extracting the protection tube from the outer circumferential side of the motor rotor so as to be disassembled after the stator is incorporated between the motor rotor and the cylindrical housing.

2. The method of manufacturing the turbocharger according to claim 1 , further comprising:
forming a concave groove portion on an inner circumferential surface of the cylindrical housing.

3. The method of manufacturing the turbocharger according to claim 2 , further comprising:
chamfering corner portions of both end portions in an axial direction of the concave groove portion.

4. The method of manufacturing the turbocharger according to claim 1 , further comprising: applying thermal grease to the inner wall surface of the cylindrical housing.

5. The method of manufacturing the turbocharger according to claim 4 , further comprising:
providing a grease discharging port which extrudes excess thermal grease in the cylindrical housing.

6. The method of manufacturing the turbocharger according to claim 1 , further comprising:
using a guide bar to position and slide the cylindrical housing during installation of the cylindrical housing.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Ltd

Inventors

• Tsuji Takeshi
• Ono Yoshihisa

Classifications

• F04D29/20

  Mounting rotors on shafts · CPC title

• F04D25/045 Primary

  the pump wheel carrying the fluid driving means, e.g. turbine blades · CPC title

• H02K15/02

  of stator or rotor bodies · CPC title

• F01D15/10

  Adaptations for driving, or combinations with, electric generators · CPC title

• F02B37/10 Primary

  at least one pump being alternatively {or simultaneously} driven by exhaust and other drive, {e.g. by pressurised fluid from a reservoir or an engine-driven pump} · CPC title