Busbar locating component

• US 10,199,804 B2
• Filed: 12/01/2014
• Issued: 02/05/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/01/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tesla Inc.
• Original Assignee: Tesla Inc.
• Inventors: Ramm, Robert James, Sasaridis, Dino, Campbell, Colin, Liu, Wenjun
• Primary Examiner(s): Smith, Courtney
• Application Number:
  US14/557,398
• Publication Number:
  US 20160156278A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,527 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 1/00 Supplying electric power to auxiliary equipment of vehicles circuit arrangements for charging batteries H02J7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 25/115 the devices being arranged next to each other
• CPC Class Codes: H02B 1/04 Mounting thereon of switches or of other devices in general, the switch or device having, or being without, casing
• CPC Class Codes: H02B 1/20 Bus-bar or other wiring layouts, e.g. in cubicles, in switchyards installations of bus-bars H02G5/00
• CPC Class Codes: H02B 1/48 Mounting of devices therein
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 7/003 Constructional details, e.g. physical layout, assembly, wiring or busbar connections

Abstract

A busbar locating component includes: one or more first attachments configured for attaching a busbar layer to the busbar locating component; one or more bays each configured to contain and position an assembly of transistors essentially perpendicular to the busbar layer for connection; and a plurality of slots, each slot configured to contain and position a busbar relative to the busbar layer for connection.

Claims

1. A busbar locating component comprising:

a unitary structure formed of an electrically insulating material having;

a first bay defined by;

a bottom wall;

a sidewall perpendicular to the bottom wall; and

a surface perpendicular to the bottom wall; and

first attachments for attaching one or more busbar layers;

a terminal pass-through adjacent the sidewall and outside of the first bay;

a plurality of first slots adjacent the terminal pass-through and on an opposite side of the terminal pass-through from the first bay, wherein the plurality of first slots each include a releasable detent; and

one or more second slots adjacent the surface and outside of the first bay,

wherein the unitary structure electrically isolates, from one another, busbars mounted within the plurality of first slots and one or more busbars mounted within the one or more second slots.

2. The busbar locating component of claim 1, wherein the one or more second slots each include a releasable detent.

3. The busbar locating component of claim 1, further comprising an elongation attached thereto, the elongation including a first extension, a second extension and a support structure attached to the first extension and the second extension.

4. The busbar locating component of claim 1, wherein the first attachments include tapered pins.

5. The busbar locating component of claim 1, further comprising second attachments for attaching a circuit board.

6. The busbar locating component of claim 5, wherein the second attachments extend higher than the first attachments relative to the bottom wall.

7. The busbar locating component of claim 1, further comprising a second bay adjacent the one or more second slots.

8. The busbar locating component of claim 7, further comprising a third slot adjacent and outside the second bay and on an opposite side of the second bay from the one or more second slots.

9. The busbar locating component of claim 8, further comprising third attachments adjacent the third slot for attaching the one or more busbar layers.

10. The busbar locating component of claim 9, further comprising fourth attachments adjacent the third slot for attaching a circuit board.

11. The busbar locating component of claim 8, further comprising a third bay adjacent the third slot.

12. A busbar locating component comprising:

a unitary structure formed of an electrically insulating material having;

a first bay defined by;

a bottom wall;

a sidewall perpendicular to the bottom wall; and

a surface perpendicular to the bottom wall; and

first attachments for attaching one or more busbar layers;

a terminal pass-through adjacent the sidewall and outside of the first bay;

a plurality of first slots adjacent the terminal pass-through and on an opposite side of the terminal pass-through from the first bay; and

one or more second slots adjacent the surface and outside of the first bay, wherein the one or more second slots each include a releasable detent,

wherein the unitary structure electrically isolates, from one another, busbars mounted within the plurality of first slots and one or more busbars mounted within the one or more second slots.

13. The busbar locating component of claim 12, wherein the plurality of first slots each include a releasable detent.

14. The busbar locating component of claim 12, further comprising an elongation attached thereto, the elongation including a first extension, a second extension and a support structure attached to the first extension and the second extension.

15. The busbar locating component of claim 12, further comprising a second bay adjacent the one or more second slots.

16. The busbar locating component of claim 15, further comprising a third slot adjacent and outside the second bay and on an opposite side of the second bay from the one or more second slots.

17. A busbar locating component comprising:

a unitary structure formed of an electrically insulating material having;

a first bay defined by;

a bottom wall;

a sidewall perpendicular to the bottom wall; and

a surface perpendicular to the bottom wall; and

first attachments for attaching one or more busbar layers;

a terminal pass-through adjacent the sidewall and outside of the first bay;

a plurality of first slots adjacent the terminal pass-through and on an opposite side of the terminal pass-through from the first bay;

one or more second slots adjacent the surface and outside of the first bay,

wherein the unitary structure electrically isolates, from one another, busbars mounted within the plurality of first slots and one or more busbars mounted within the one or more second slots; and

an elongation attached to the unitary structure, the elongation including a first extension, a second extension and a support structure attached to the first extension and the second extension.

18. The busbar locating component of claim 17, wherein the plurality of first slots each include a releasable detent.

19. The busbar locating component of claim 17, wherein the one or more second slots each include a releasable detent.

20. The busbar locating component of claim 17, further comprising a second bay adjacent the one or more second slots.