Method of manufacturing rotary machine, method of plating rotary machine, and rotary machine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9745863-B2
Application number	US-201314417719-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 26, 2013
Priority date	Dec 28, 2012
Publication date	Aug 29, 2017
Grant date	Aug 29, 2017

Abstract

Provided is a method of manufacturing a rotary machine, which includes: a casing forming process of forming a casing of the rotary machine that has multiple opening parts and suctions and discharges a fluid; a surface activating process of supplying a pretreatment liquid into the casing, then discharging the pretreatment liquid from the casing through the opening parts, and activating an inner surface of the casing after the casing forming process; a plating process of performing supply and discharge of a plating liquid into and from the easing through the opening parts to circulate the plating liquid and plating the inner surface of the casing after the surface activating process; and an assembling process of providing a rotating body that is rotatable relative to the casing so as to he covered from an outer circumference side by the casing plated in the plating process.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method of manufacturing a rotary machine comprising:
a casing forming process of forming a casing of the rotary machine that has multiple opening parts and suctions and discharges a fluid;
a surface activating process of supplying a pretreatment liquid into the casing, then discharging the pretreatment liquid from the casing through the opening parts, and activating an inner surface of the casing after the casing forming process;
a plating process of performing supply and discharge of a plating liquid into and from the casing through the opening parts to circulate the plating liquid and plating the inner surface of the casing after the surface activating process; and
an assembling process of providing a rotating body that is rotatable relative to the casing so as to be covered from an outer circumference side by the casing plated in the plating process.

2. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising a preheating process of supplying a preheating liquid into the casing, then discharging the preheating liquid from the casing through the opening parts, and preheating the casing between the surface activating process and the plating process.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the casing in the preheating process is preheated by a preheating liquid containing a reductant as the preheating liquid.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the plating liquid supplied into the casing in the plating process is stirred by a stirring device.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein, in the plating process, the plating is performed in a state in which the opening part having a largest opening among the multiple opening parts is directed upward.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the plating liquid in the plating process is supplied and discharged from the opening part that requires plating work and suctions and discharges the fluid among the multiple opening parts.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein, in the plating process, the plating is performed in a state in which a cover member surrounding an opening edge of the opening part from an outer circumference side is provided for the casing so as to cause the opening part opened upward among the multiple opening parts to further extend in an upward direction.

8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein, in the plating process, the plating is performed after a core is installed in the casing in a state in which the core is spaced apart from an inner surface of the casing.

9. The method according to claim 8 , wherein, in the plating process, a hollow member having through-holes that are formed in an outer circumferential surface thereof and communicate with an interior and exterior thereof is used as the core, and the plating liquid is supplied into the hollow member and is ejected from the through-holes toward an exterior of the hollow member.

10. The method according to claim 8 , wherein, in the plating process, the plating is performed while moving the core.

11. The method according to claim 1 , wherein, in the plating process, the plating is performed in a state in which a partition plate for partitioning an interior of the casing into multiple spaces in an extending direction of the casing is provided such that at least two of the opening parts communicate with the respective spaces.

12. The method according to claim 1 , wherein, in the plating process, the plating is performed while vibration is imparted to the casing by a vibration imparting device.

13. The method according to claim 1 , wherein, in the plating process, the plating is performed while the inner surface of the casing is being rubbed by a brush.

14. A method of plating a rotary machine, particularly an inner surface of a casing of the rotary machine that has multiple opening parts and suctions and discharges a fluid, the method comprising:
a surface activating process of supplying a pretreatment liquid into the casing, then discharging the pretreatment liquid from the casing through the opening parts, and activating an inner surface of the casing; and
a plating process of performing supply and discharge of a plating liquid into and from the casing through the opening parts to circulate the plating liquid and plating the inner surface of the casing after the surface activating process.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Compressor Corp

Inventors

• Ishibashi Yusuke
• Konno Yuya
• Watanabe Yujiro
• Yasui Toyoaki
• Tanaka Kazunari
• KAWAHARA Kosei
• FUCHIGAMI Yohei
• Nishina Toshio

Classifications

• C23C18/32

  Coating with nickel, cobalt or mixtures thereof with phosphorus or boron (C23C18/50 takes precedence) · CPC title

• C23C18/44

  using reducing agents · CPC title

• F04D29/4206

  especially adapted for elastic fluid pumps · CPC title

• C23C18/1817

  Heat · CPC title

• C23C18/1633

  Process of electroless plating · CPC title