Power converter, arrangement comprising an electric machine and a power converter, and vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11601062-B2
Application number	US-202016912782-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 26, 2020
Priority date	Jun 28, 2019
Publication date	Mar 7, 2023
Grant date	Mar 7, 2023

Abstract

A power converter, includes a housing and a busbar arrangement, which is arranged inside the housing, wherein the power converter is designed to guide an alternating current along the busbar arrangement, the power converter also includes at least one planar flux-conducting element made of a magnetically highly permeable material, which is arranged between a wall of the housing and the busbar arrangement.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A power converter, comprising:
a housing comprising a first housing element and a cover element formed from a magnetically low-permeable material, the first housing element forming a first wall, and the cover element being arranged inside the first housing element,
a busbar arrangement, which is arranged inside the housing, and
a planar flux-conducting element made of a magnetically highly permeable material, the flux-conduction element being arranged on the cover element between the first wall and the busbar arrangement,
wherein the power converter is designed to guide an alternating current along the busbar arrangement.

2. The power converter according to claim 1 , wherein the flux-conducting element is formed from a metal plate or a ferrite plate.

3. The power converter according to claim 1 , wherein the busbar arrangement is guided out from the first housing element through at least one opening in a second wall of the first housing element, and the flux-conducting element is arranged on an opening-side edge portion of the cover element.

4. The power converter according to claim 3 , wherein the cover element has protrusions pointing towards the at least one opening and the flux-conducting element extends over the protrusions.

5. The power converter according to claim 1 , wherein the cover element has a greater thickness in a portion on which the flux-conducting element is arranged than in other portions.

6. The power converter according to claim 1 , wherein the cover element has an indentation, in which the flux-conducting element is arranged.

7. The power converter according to claim 1 , wherein the first housing element houses a power electronics unit of the power converter, which power electronics unit is designed to receive the alternating current on the input side or provide the alternating current on the output side.

8. A power converter comprising:
a housing comprising a second housing element with at least one opening, the second housing element forming a first wall and a second wall, the first wall running perpendicularly to the second wall, and the second wall comprising at least one opening, a busbar arrangement, which is arranged inside the housing and guided into the second housing element, and a planar flux-conducting element made of a magnetically highly permeable material, which is arranged between the first wall and the busbar arrangement, wherein the power converter is designed to guide an alternating current along the busbar arrangement.

9. The power converter according to claim 8 , wherein the flux-conducing element is arranged on the first wall.

10. The power converter according to claim 8 , wherein the housing further comprises a first housing element and a cover element formed from a magnetically low-permeable material, the first housing element forming a first wall and a second wall with at least one opening, the cover element being arranged inside the first housing element, and the busbar arrangement being guided out from the first housing element through the at least one opening in the second wall of the first housing element,
the power converter comprising a further flux-conducting element arranged on an opening-side edge portion of the cover element between the first wall of the first housing element and the busbar arrangement, and
the housing elements are arranged against one another in such a way that the busbar arrangement is guided through the openings from the first housing element into the second housing element.

11. The power converter according to claim 10 , wherein the flux-conducting elements are formed by a one-piece flux-conducting device passing through the openings.

12. The power converter according to claim 8 , wherein the second housing element houses a connection device for connection of the busbar arrangement to an electric machine.

13. An arrangement comprising an electric machine and the power converter according to claim 1 , wherein the power converter is designed to provide the alternating current for generation of a rotary field of the electric machine.

14. A vehicle, comprising the arrangement according to claim 13 , wherein the electric machine is designed to drive the vehicle.

15. An arrangement comprising an electric machine and the power converter according to claim 8 , wherein the power converter is designed to provide the alternating current for generation of a rotary field of the electric machine.

16. A vehicle, comprising the arrangement according to claim 15 , wherein the electric machine is designed to drive the vehicle.

Assignees

• Valeo Siemens Eautomotive Germany Gmbh
• Valeo Siemens Eautomotive Grmany Gmbh

Inventors

• Rasek Guido
• Reymann Markus

Classifications

• H05K7/14329

  specially adapted for the configuration of power bus bars · CPC title

• H02M7/003 Primary

  Constructional details, e.g. physical layout, assembly, wiring or busbar connections · CPC title

• B60L50/51 Primary

  characterised by AC-motors · CPC title

• B60L2270/147

  electro magnetic [EMI] · CPC title

• H05K9/0009

  with provisions to reduce EMI leakage through the joining parts · CPC title