Inverter-integrated electric compressor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9929618-B2
Application number	US-201414771726-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 18, 2014
Priority date	Mar 7, 2013
Publication date	Mar 27, 2018
Grant date	Mar 27, 2018

Abstract

An inverter-integrated electric compressor for which an inverter device is integrally incorporated, with a main circuit board being housed while the four corners thereof are supported by boss parts at locations above high-voltage electrical components and semiconductor switching elements. The multiple high-voltage electrical components are arranged in parallel along one side of the main circuit board at one side of an inverter housing part, with one side of the main circuit board being supported from below by the upper surface of these components. The multiple semiconductor switching elements are arranged in parallel along the other side opposing the one side of the main circuit board, at the other side of the inverter housing part, with the other side of the main circuit board being supported from below by multiple lead terminals extending upwards.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An inverter-integrated electric compressor for which an inverter device is integrally incorporated in an inverter housing part provided in a housing periphery, the integrally incorporated inverter device comprising a plurality of high-voltage electrical components configuring a filter circuit, a plurality of semiconductor switching elements configuring a switching circuit, and a rectangular main circuit board on which an inverter circuit including the filter circuit and the switching circuit is mounted,
the main circuit board being housed while four corners thereof are supported by boss parts in locations above the plurality of high-voltage electrical components and the plurality of semiconductor switching elements,
the plurality of high-voltage electrical components being arranged in parallel along one side of the main circuit board at one side of the inverter housing part, the upper surface thereof supporting one side of the main circuit board from below, and
the plurality of semiconductor switching elements being arranged in parallel along another side opposing the one side of the main circuit board at another side of the inverter housing part, with another side of the main circuit board being supported from below by multiple lead terminals extending upward.

2. The inverter-integrated electric compressor according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of high-voltage electrical components is installed on a bottom surface of one side along an axial direction of an outer peripheral wall of a cylindrical housing forming a bottom surface of the inverter housing part, and the filter circuit is configured by mounting the plurality of high-voltage electrical components on the main circuit board.

3. The inverter-integrated electric compressor according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of semiconductor switching elements is fixedly installed on a heat-radiating block erected on the bottom surface of another side along the axial direction of the outer peripheral wall of the cylindrical housing forming the bottom surface of the inverter housing part, and the switching circuit is configured by mounting the plurality of semiconductor switching elements on the main circuit board.

4. The inverter-integrated electric compressor according to claim 3 , wherein the heat-radiating block is a block formed of a heat conductive material erected in a vertical direction on the bottom surface of the inverter housing part, and the plurality of semiconductor switching elements is fixedly installed on both vertical side surfaces thereof with the lead terminals facing vertically upward.

5. The inverter-integrated electric compressor according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of high-voltage electrical components and the plurality of semiconductor switching elements configure the filter circuit and the switching circuit on the main circuit board by each lead terminal being passed through through-holes in the main circuit board and being soldered and mounted in a pattern on the main circuit board.

6. The inverter-integrated electric compressor according to claim 1 , wherein, the main circuit board is supported not only by the boss parts, the plurality of high-voltage electrical components, and the plurality of semiconductor switching elements, but also by an inter-circuit board connection terminal installed near a center of the inverter housing part, which is a lower portion of the main circuit board, to connect electrically and mechanically with a sub-circuit board on which a low-voltage communication circuit connected with a communication line is mounted, and/or supported by a UVW busbar connected with a glass-sealed terminal installed to pass through the housing at a location in front of the inverter housing part.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Automotive Thermal Sys Co Ltd

Inventors

• Hattori Makoto
• Asai Masahiko
• Kamitani Hiroyuki
• Nakano Koji

Classifications

• F04B39/00

  Component parts, details, or accessories, of pumps or pumping systems specially adapted for elastic fluids, not otherwise provided for in, or of interest apart from, groups F04B25/00 - F04B37/00 · CPC title

• H02K11/33

  Drive circuits, e.g. power electronics (H02K11/38 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H02K5/22 Primary

  Auxiliary parts of casings not covered by groups H02K5/06-H02K5/20, e.g. shaped to form connection boxes or terminal boxes · CPC title

• H02K11/028

  Suppressors associated with the rotor · CPC title

• F04B53/16 Primary

  Casings; Cylinders; Cylinder liners or heads; Fluid connections · CPC title