Electronic housing for an electric motor with protection against accidental contact

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9667115-B2
Application number	US-201314405646-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 13, 2013
Priority date	Jul 20, 2012
Publication date	May 30, 2017
Grant date	May 30, 2017

Abstract

The present invention concerns an electronic housing for an electric motor, consisting of a housing holder part with a housing floor and a housing wall comprising the housing floor. A housing opening lies opposite the housing floor. Arranged in the housing holder part is a motor electronic component with an electronic printed circuit board, which is arranged parallel to the opening plane of the housing opening. Detachably arranged on the electronic printed circuit board or on the motor electronic component, on a side of the electronic printed circuit board facing away from the housing floor is a contact protecting component, which covers this surface, from an electrically insulating material, which has at least partially a grid structure as an air outlet.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electronics housing for an electric motor, consisting of a housing receiving part comprising a housing floor, a housing wall incorporating the housing floor, and comprising a housing opening opposite the housing floor, a motor electronics component comprising an electronics printed circuit board being arranged in the housing receiving part, which electronics printed circuit board extends parallel to the opening plane of the housing opening, wherein a contact-protection component made of an electrically insulating material and covering the surface of the electronic printed circuit board is removably arranged on the electronic printed circuit board or on the motor electronics component on the side of the electronic printed circuit board facing away from the housing floor, at least part of which contact-protection component has a grille structure as ventilation, wherein
the contact-protection component is formed as a cover plate used to seal the housing opening, the cover plate having an outer contour which is adapted to an inner contour of the housing opening.

2. The electronics housing according to claim 1 , wherein the cover plate has an outer circumferential ring part and an inner grille part.

3. The electronics housing according to claim 2 , wherein the ring part has a continuously closed planar wall, and the grille part consists of a planar floor portion which is arranged so as to be offset in the direction of the housing floor from the wall of the ring part in the assembled state of the cover plate, and the floor portion is connected at its outer edge to the ring part by means of individual connecting webs extending perpendicularly to the floor portion.

4. The electronics housing according to claim 3 , wherein the connecting webs project beyond the wall via their ends opposite the floor portion, such that the wall is connected to the ends over an in particular concavely formed transition portion.

5. The electronics housing according to claim 3 , wherein the floor portion has a central, preferably circular, opening, and the grille part is sized to receive a fan wheel, which is a component of an internal fan of an electric motor and is driven by a motor shaft of the electric motor, the fan wheel dipping into the grille part, so that air located between the fan wheel and the electronic printed circuit board circulates.

6. The electronics housing according to claim 1 , wherein the contact-protection component consists of a cover plate comprising a wall formed over its entire surface as a grille structure, the wall having a central opening, from the edge of which radial grille webs extend as far as the circumferential edge of the cover plate, and the individual grille webs being interconnected by circumferentially extending web-like struts.

7. The electronics housing according to claim 2 , wherein either the ring part or the circumferential edge of the cover plate has spacers on its side facing the housing floor, via which spacers the cover plate bears on the electronic printed circuit board.

8. The electronics housing according to claim 2 , wherein the ring part has a closed wall over its entire circumference or this wall is also in the form of a grille in part.

9. The electronics housing according to any of claim 2 , wherein latching hooks are formed on the circumferential edge of the ring part or of the cover plate and used to fasten the cover plate to the electronic printed circuit board in a latching manner.

10. The electronics housing according to claim 1 , wherein the cover plate and the cover plate have a closed wall portion in which joining aids are formed for through-contacting of electrical contacts of the motor electronics.

11. The electronics housing according to claim 1 , wherein the contact-protection cover plate has guide means at its circumferential edge, which cooperate with guide means on a stator flange of a stator of an electric motor during assembly of the electronics housing.

Assignees

• Ebm Papst Mulfingen Gmbh & Co Kg

Inventors

• Sturm Michael
• Sauer Thomas
• Maschke Matthias

Classifications

• F04D25/068

  Mechanical details of the pump control unit (pump control details F04D27/00) · CPC title

• H02K9/06

  with fans or impellers driven by the machine shaft · CPC title

• H02K2211/03

  Machines characterised by circuit boards, e.g. pcb · CPC title

• H02K2205/09

  Machines characterised by drain passages or by venting, breathing or pressure compensating means · CPC title

• H02K5/10 Primary

  with arrangements for protection from ingress, e.g. water or fingers · CPC title