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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2019
Edwards Japan Limited, Chiba, JP;
Edwards Japan Limited, Chiba, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a vacuum pump including a turbomolecular mechanism having rotor blades and stator blades alternately arranged in multiple stages in an axial direction inside a casing having an inlet port that sucks gas from an outside and an outlet port that exhausts the sucked gas to the outside, the vacuum pump including: a plurality of annular spacers that are stacked on each other and position the stator blades in the axial direction; the casing that has a cylindrical portion arranged to surround outer peripheries of the plurality of stacked spacers and a base portion attached to a lower portion of the cylindrical portion; and an upper radial positioning portion and a lower radial positioning portion provided at two vertical positions inside the cylindrical portion and coaxially hold at least a spacer of an uppermost stage and a spacer of a lowermost stage among the plurality of stacked spacers.