Method of fixing housing
AssigneeMitsubishi Electric Corporation
InventorsKento Mori, Nobuo Yokomura
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Abstract
There are included: a step of adjusting, on a surface of a base plate, the position of a housing which is made of a resin and is placed on the base plate so as to partially cover that base plate, to an extent that a contact portion of the housing with the base plate is kept straddling a groove that is formed on the surface of the base plate and has a width smaller than a width of the contact portion; a step of heating the base plate or the contact portion of the housing with the base plate while pressing the housing against the base plate; and a step of cooling the thus-heated base plate or contact portion of the housing with the base plate. This makes it possible to significantly improve the accuracy of the position adjustment.
Claims13
A method of fixing a housing, comprising:
- a step of adjusting a position of a housing, which is made of a resin and is placed on a base plate so as to partially cover the base plate, to an extent that a flat contact portion of the housing is in contact with the base plate and straddles a groove formed in a surface of the base plate, the groove having a width smaller than a width of the contact portion, the groove extending under a wall of the housing and the groove extending from an area exterior to the housing toward the housing;
- a step of heating the base plate or the contact portion of the housing while pressing the housing against the base plate, to thereby deform the flat contact portion of the housing so that the contact portion is partially embedded in a portion of the groove extending under the housing;
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- a step of cooling the heated base plate or contact portion of the housing.
A method of fixing a housing, comprising:
- a step of adjusting a position of a housing to an extent that a flat contact portion of the housing is in contact with a base plate and straddles a groove formed in a surface of the base plate, the housing being made of a resin and placed on the base plate so as to at least partially cover the base plate, the groove having a width smaller than a width of the contact portion, and the groove extending from an area interior to the housing toward the housing;
- a step of heating the base plate or the contact portion of the housing while pressing the housing against the base plate, to thereby deform the flat contact portion of the housing so that the contact portion is partially embedded in a portion of the groove extending under the housing;
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- a step of cooling the heated base plate or contact portion of the housing.
A method of fixing a housing, comprising:
- a step of adjusting a position of a housing to an extent that a flat contact portion of the housing is in contact with a base plate and straddles multiple grooves formed in a surface of the base plate, the housing being made of a resin and placed on the base plate so as to at least partially cover the base plate, the multiple grooves each having a width narrower than a wall thickness of the contact portion, the multiple grooves extending under a wall of the housing and the multiple grooves extending from an area exterior to the housing toward the housing;
- a step of heating the base plate or the contact portion of the housing while pressing the housing against the base plate, to thereby deform the flat contact portion of the housing so that the contact portion is partially embedded in a set of less than all of the multiple grooves and is partially embedded in a portion of each of the multiple grooves in the set;
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- a step of cooling the heated base plate or contact portion of the housing so that the contact portion is partially embedded in each of the multiple grooves in the set after the cooling step.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.