Method and Device for Dispensing Sealing Compound, and Housing for an Electric Machine

A housing for an electric machine, comprising:

• a housing cup defining an opening;
• and
• a housing cover configured to close the opening of the housing cup, the housing cover having a cup share,
• wherein a collar of uninterrupted encircling form integrally formed on a cup wall of the housing cover in a region of an opening edge, the collar projecting radially outwardly such that, when the housing in closed, the collar forms a channel bottom of a channel that is defined by mutually opposite regions of the cup wall of the housing cover and of a wall of the housing cup, and
• wherein the channel is filled by a sealing compound.

A device for dispensing sealing compound into a channel that extends around a housing cover, the device comprising:

• at least one detection device configured to detect a channel depth of the channel and a channel width of the channel along a radial channel circumference;
• a dispensing device configured to dispense the sealing compound into the channel,
• wherein the device is configured to:
• using the at least one detection device, produce a depth dataset representing the channel depth and a width dataset representing the channel width;
• produce the a sealing compound volume dataset based on the depth dataset and the width dataset, the sealing compound volume dataset representing a sealing material volume to be dispensed by the dispensing device into the channel along the radial channel circumference;
• and
• operate the dispensing device to fill the channel with sealing compound depending on the sealing compound volume dataset in such a way that the sealing compound does not overrun an edge of the housing cup.