Damper housing structure body and damper housing structure body fabrication method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9481398-B2
Application number	US-201314403443-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 24, 2013
Priority date	May 29, 2012
Publication date	Nov 1, 2016
Grant date	Nov 1, 2016

Abstract

In a damper housing structure body, an upper edge of a damper housing and a damper base are bonded by spot welding. The damper housing has a U-shape with an opening on a vehicle outer side in plan view, and includes a planar part in a corner between a front wall and an inner wall. The planer part includes plural welding spots arranged in the front-rear direction of the vehicle. Adjacent weld spots have mutually overlapping welding margins or an interval between two adjoining welding points is shorter than an outer diameter of the welding margins. One of the welding spots is welded while a current is applied to another welding spot that has been already welded. A current value for welding the one of the welding spots is higher than another current value for another one of the welding spots that has been already welded.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A damper housing structure body comprising:
a damper housing configured to house a damper of a suspension device of a vehicle; and
a damper base, disposed at a top of the damper housing, fixed to the damper, wherein
an upper edge of the damper housing and the damper base are bonded by spot welding,
wherein the damper housing having a U-shape in a plan view thereof with an opening toward a vehicle outer side and including a planar part at a corner part between a front wall and an inner wall,
wherein the planar part includes a plurality of welding spots arranged in a vehicle front-rear direction,
wherein the welding spots adjoining each other have welding margins which are overlapped with each other, and
wherein one of the welding spots is formed by being welded while a current is applied to another one of the welding spots that has been already welded.

2. The damper housing structure body defined by claim 1 , wherein a width of the planar part is substantially the same as a sum of outer diameters of a plurality of the welding spots.

3. The damper housing structure body defined by claim 1 , wherein one of the welding spots if formed by welding using a current value higher than another current value used for welding another one of the welding spots that has been already welded.

4. A damper housing structure body comprising:
a damper housing configured to house a damper of a suspension device of a vehicle; and
a damper base, disposed at a top of the damper housing, fixed to the damper, wherein
an upper edge of the damper housing and the damper base are welded by spot welding,
wherein the damper housing having a U-shape in a plan view thereof with an opening toward a vehicle outer side and including a planar part at a corner part between a front wall and an inner wall,
wherein the planar part includes a plurality of welding spots arranged in a vehicle front-rear direction,
wherein the welding spots adjoining each other have welding margins, and an interval between two of the welding spots adjoining each other is shorter than an outer diameter of the welding margins, and
wherein one of the welding spots is formed by being welded while a current is applied to another one of the welding spots that has been already welded.

5. The a-damper housing structure body defined by claim 4 , wherein a width of the planar part is substantially the same as a sum of outer diameters of a plurality of the welding spots.

6. The damper housing structure body defined by claim 4 , wherein one of the welding spots if formed by welding using a current value higher than another current value used for welding another one of the welding spots that has been already welded.

7. A damper housing structure body comprising:
a damper housing configured to house a damper of a suspension device of a vehicle; and
a damper base, disposed at a top of the damper housing, fixed to the damper, wherein
an upper edge of the damper housing and the damper base are bonded by spot welding,
wherein the damper housing having a U-shape in a plan view thereof with an opening toward a vehicle outer side and including a planar part at a corner part between a front wall and an inner wall,
wherein the planar part includes a plurality of welding spots arranged in a vehicle front-rear direction,
wherein the welding spots adjoining each other have welding margins which are overlapped with each other, and
wherein one of the welding spots if formed by welding using a current value higher than another current value used for welding another one of the welding spots that has been already welded.

8. The damper housing structure body defined by claim 7 , wherein a width of the planar part is substantially the same as a sum of outer diameters of a plurality of the welding spots.

9. A damper housing structure body comprising:
a damper housing configured to house a damper of a suspension device of a vehicle; and
a damper base, disposed at a top of the damper housing, fixed to the damper,
wherein an upper edge of the damper housing and the damper base are welded by spot welding,
wherein the damper housing having a U-shape in a plan view thereof with an opening toward a vehicle outer side and including a planar part at a corner part between a front wall and an inner wall, wherein the planar part includes a plurality of welding spots arranged in a vehicle front-rear direction,
wherein an interval between two of the welding spots adjoining each other is shorter than an outer diameter of the welding margins, and
wherein one of the welding spots if formed by welding using a current value higher than another current value used for welding another one of the welding spots that has been already welded.

10. The damper housing structure body defined by claim 9 , wherein a width of the planar part is substantially the same as a sum of outer diameters of a plurality of the welding spots.

Assignees

• Honda Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• OHOKA Hisayasu
• Suzuki Atsushi
• Goto Mitsushige
• Ohtsuka Keita
• NEZASA Taichi

Classifications

• B23K2101/18

  Sheet panels · CPC title

• B23K2101/006

  Vehicles · CPC title

• B23K2103/04

  Steel {or steel} alloys · CPC title

• B62D25/088 Primary

  Details of structures as upper supports for springs or dampers · CPC title

• B23K11/24

  Electric supply or control circuits therefor · CPC title