Electric power device and method of producing the electric power device

• US 10,641,797 B2
• Filed: 05/30/2018
• Issued: 05/05/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Okamoto, Noriaki, Shimada, Masahiro, Kochi, Naoto, Hashino, Satoshi, Fujita, Satoru
• Primary Examiner(s): McAndrew, Christopher P
• Application Number:
  US15/992,331
• Publication Number:
  US 20180348262A1
• Time in Patent Office: 706 Days
• Field of Search: 324117
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 15/202 using Hall-effect devices Hall elements in arrangements for measuring electrical power G01R21/08
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 15/207 Constructional details independent of the type of device used
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 19/15 Indicating the presence of current
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 19/2513 Arrangements for monitoring electric power systems, e.g. power lines or loads; Logging
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/42 AC power supplies

Abstract

In an electric power device and a method of producing the electric power device, in an axial direction of a reactor, a distance between a detection element of a second electric current sensor and a central position of a winding part is shorter than a distance between a detection element of a first electric current sensor and a central position of a winding part. Further, a gap length of a core of the second electric current sensor is smaller than a gap length of a core of the first electric current sensor.

Claims

1. An electric power device comprising:

a reactor including a winding part;

a first electric power line and a second electric power line extending on a lateral side of the reactor in a direction perpendicular to an axial direction of the reactor;

a first electric current sensor including a first detection element and an annular first core with a first gap for providing the first detection element, and being configured to detect first electric current flowing through the first electric power line;

a second electric current sensor including a second detection element and an annular second core with a second gap for providing the second detection element, and being configured to detect second electric current flowing through the second electric power line; and

an electric circuit configured to make a maximum value of the first electric current larger than a maximum value of the second electric current,

wherein a normal direction of a magnetic field detection surface of the first detection element and a normal direction of a magnetic field detection surface of the second detection element extend along the axial direction of the reactor,

the first detection element and the second detection element are deviated from the reactor in a direction intersecting the axial direction of the reactor, and

wherein, in the axial direction of the reactor, a distance between the second detection element and a central position of the winding part is smaller than a distance between the first detection element and the central position of the winding part; and

a second gap length as a length of the second gap is smaller than a first gap length as a length of the first gap.

3. The electric power device according to claim 1, wherein a second direct distance between the second detection element and the reactor is smaller than a first direct distance between the first detection element and the reactor.

4. The electric power device according to claim 1, wherein the reactor is a magnetic coupling type reactor.

5. The electric power device according to claim 1, wherein the first detection element and the second detection element have structure according to same specification.

6. The electric power device according to claim 1, wherein an outer diameter of the first core and an outer diameter of the second core are a same diameter.

2. An electric power device comprising,

a reactor including a winding part;

a first electric power line and a second electric power line extending on a lateral side of the reactor in a direction perpendicular to an axial direction of the reactor;

a first electric current sensor including a first detection element and an annular first core with a first gap for providing the first detection element, and being configured to detect first electric current flowing through the first electric power line;

a second electric current sensor including a second detection element and an annular second core with a second gap for providing the second detection element, and being configured to detect second electric current flowing through the second electric power line; and

an electric circuit configured to make a maximum value of the first electric current larger than a maximum value of the second electric current,

wherein, in the axial direction of the reactor, a distance between the second detection element and a central position of the winding part is smaller than a distance between the first detection element and the central position of the winding part; and

a second gap length as a length of the second gap is smaller than a first gap length as a length of the first gap,

wherein the first detection element is a first Hall element;

the second detection element is a second Hall element; and

a magnetic field detection surface of the first Hall element is provided at an angle whereby the magnetic field detection surface of the first Hall element is more closely parallel to an orientation of leakage magnetic flux generated by the reactor than a magnetic field detection surface of the second Hall element.

8. The electric power device according to claim 2, wherein a second direct distance between the second detection element and the reactor is smaller than a first direct distance between the first detection element and the reactor.

9. The electric power device according to claim 2, wherein the reactor is a magnetic coupling type reactor.

10. The electric power device according to claim 2, wherein the first detection element and the second detection element have structure according to same specification.

11. The electric power device according to claim 2, wherein an outer diameter of the first core and an outer diameter of the second core are a same diameter.

7. A method of producing an electric power device, the electric power device comprising:

a reactor including a winding part;

a first electric current sensor including a first detection element and an annular first core with a first gap for providing the first detection element, and being configured to detect first electric current flowing through a first electric power line; and

a second electric current sensor including a second detection element and an annular second core with a second gap for providing the second detection element, and being configured to detect second electric current flowing through a second electric power line,

the method comprising the steps of;

arranging the first detection element, the second detection element, and the reactor in a manner that a magnetic flux detection direction as a direction of magnetic flux detected by the first detection element and the second detection element and an axial direction of the reactor become same, the first detection element and the second first detection element are deviated from the reactor in a direction intersecting the axial direction of the reactor, and in the axial direction of the reactor, a distance between the second detection element and a central position of the winding part becomes smaller than a distance between the first detection element and the central position of the winding part; and

making a second gap length as a length of the second gap smaller than a first gap length as a length of the first gap.