Electronic control device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9516769-B2
Application number	US-201514656939-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 13, 2015
Priority date	Mar 18, 2014
Publication date	Dec 6, 2016
Grant date	Dec 6, 2016

Abstract

An electronic control device, comprising: a circuit board on which an electronic component having a heat generating characteristic is mounted; a resin made cabinet housing the circuit board; and a ventilation passage whose one end is opened to an inside of the cabinet and whose other end is opened to an outside of the cabinet to communicate between the inside of the cabinet and the outside of the cabinet, wherein the one end of the ventilation passage is opened to the electronic component having the heat generating characteristic and a standing wall is formed along an outer peripheral edge of the one end opening.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electronic control device, comprising:
a circuit board on which an electronic component having a heat generating characteristic is mounted;
a resin made cabinet housing the circuit board; and
a ventilation passage whose one end is opened to an inside of the cabinet and whose other end is opened to an outside of the cabinet to communicate between the inside of the cabinet and the outside of the cabinet, wherein the one end of the ventilation passage is opened to the electronic component having the heat generating characteristic, a standing wall stands up from a bottom wall having a one end opening along an outer peripheral edge of the one end opening, and a tip of the standing wall is closer to the circuit board than the one end opening.

2. The electronic control device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the electronic control device further comprises a filter member having a ventilation characteristic and a waterproof characteristic and arranged to cover the one end opening of the ventilation passage and the standing wall is disposed toward the circuit board side more than the filter member.

3. The electronic control device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the standing wall is formed to enclose an outer peripheral edge of the one end opening of the ventilation passage in a form of a letter C shape.

4. The electronic control device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the cabinet includes a component housing recess section opened toward a mounting surface of the circuit board and housing the electronic component having the heat generating characteristic, the one end opening of the ventilation passage is formed on a bottom surface of the component recess housing section, and an inner peripheral wall of the component housing recess section provides the standing wall.

5. The electronic control device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a partitioning wall is formed in the ventilation passage which divides an inside of the ventilation passage along a ventilation direction of air.

6. The electronic control device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein openings of the one end and the other end of the ventilation passage are substantially perpendicular to each other.

Assignees

• Hitachi Automotive Systems Ltd

Inventors

• Kaneko Susumu
• Nagashima Kazuaki

Classifications

• H05K5/0213 Primary

  Venting apertures; Constructional details thereof · CPC title

• H05K7/1427

  Housings · CPC title

• H05K7/20863

  Forced ventilation, e.g. on heat dissipaters coupled to components · CPC title

• H05K1/0203

  Cooling of mounted components (H05K1/0272 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H05K7/20127 Primary

  Natural convection · CPC title