Patent ID: 8142098

Claim:
A method of manufacturing an assembly member in which a first member and a second member are fastened together, the method comprising: forming an axially extending bar-shaped section on a first member; forming an axially extending hole in a second member; forming a plurality of projections which project radially outwardly from an annular side face of the bar-shaped section and extend in an axial direction of the bar-shaped section in a repeating spaced fashion in a circumferential direction on the side face, the projections extending in the axial direction each comprising a first portion in which radial height of the projection increases uniformly in the axial direction from a free end of the bar-shaped section towards the first member and a second portion extending from a peak of the first portion towards the first member in which the radial height of the projection remains uniform in the axial direction; forming at least one circumferentially extending recess in the second portion of each projection such that the peak of the projection extends intermittently in the axial direction; and axially aligning and pressure fitting the bar-shaped section formed on the first member into the hole formed in the second member, wherein: the side face of the bar-shaped section and the projections have a greater hardness than an annular side face of the hole, the hole being sized such that, during the pressure fitting, the side face of the second member plastically deforms to flow radially inward into engagement with the first portion of the projections and into the recesses and axially extending grooves defined between the projections of the first member such that an annular gap exists between a deformed portion of the second member and a bottom surface of the recesses and the side face of the bar-shaped section, and the deformed portion of the second member is hardened due to the plastic deformation.