Electric connection box

• US 20030184984A1
• Filed: 01/23/2003
• Published: 10/02/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd. (Sumitomo Corporation), Sumitomo Electric Industries Limited (Sumitomo Corporation), Sumitomo Wiring Systems Limited (Sumitomo Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd. (Sumitomo Corporation), Sumitomo Electric Industries Limited (Sumitomo Corporation), Sumitomo Wiring Systems Limited (Sumitomo Corporation)
• Inventors: Kita, Yukinori, Onizuka, Takahiro
• Granted Patent: US 6,785,139 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 361/760
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/026 Multiple connections subassemblies

Abstract

In an electric connection box containing a bus bar board in a case, heat radiation member-side bus bars are connected to a heat radiation member, and switching devices, such as FETs, are mounted on the bus bars. The heat radiation member-side bus bars may project beyond an end surface of the heat radiation member, and form heat radiation member-side electrical component connection terminals. Electrical component connection bus bars project from a bus bar board to form bus bar board-side electrical component connection terminals. Electrical components are bridged between the heat radiation member-side electrical component connection terminals and the bus bar board-side electrical component connector terminals.

Claims

1. An electric connection box, comprising:

a case;

a bus bar board including a plurality of bus bars, the bus bar board constituting a first electric power circuit and being accommodated in said case;

a heat radiation member accommodated in said case and having a portion exposed outside said case;

a plurality of heat radiation member-side bus bars connected to a first surface of said heat radiation member and constituting a second electric power circuit that connects to said first electric power circuit;

a plurality of switching devices mounted on said heat radiation member-side bus bars;

portions of said heat radiation member-side bus bars extending to form heat radiation member-side electrical component connection terminals;

portions of said bus bar board-side bus bars extending from said bus bar board near a position of said heat radiation member-side electrical component connection terminals and along a direction of said heat radiation member-side electrical component connection terminals to form bus bar board-side electrical component connection terminals;

electrical components being bridged between said heat radiation member-side electrical component connection terminals and said bus bar board-side electrical component connection terminals.

2. An electric connection box according to claim 1, wherein electrical component-fitting portions into which said electrical components can be inserted from outside are provided in said case.

3. An electric connection box according to claim 1, wherein said heat radiation member is disposed so that the end surface of said heat radiation member is parallel to said bus bar board, and the plurality of bus bar board-side electrical component connection terminals are substantially parallel to said heat radiation member-side electrical component connection terminals.

4. An electric connection box according to claim 3, wherein said heat radiation member is secured to said case so that the first surface of said heat radiation member is substantially perpendicular to said bus bar board.

5. An electric connection box according to claim 1, wherein said heat radiation member-side bus bars include input terminal bus bars and output terminal bus bars, end portions of at least some of said output terminal bus bars constituting said heat radiation member-side electrical component connection terminals, said semiconductor switching devices being bridged between said input terminal bus bars and said output terminal bus bars, and electric power being supplied from said input terminal bus bars to said output terminal bus bars when said semiconductor switching devices are in an ON state.

6. An electric connection box according to claim 5, wherein a plurality of said output terminal bus bars are arranged along said heat radiation member, end portions of said output terminal bus bars extending beyond the end surface of said heat radiation member to form said heat radiation member-side electrical component connection terminals, said input terminal bus bars including semiconductor switching device mounting portions, said semiconductor switching devices being bridged between said semiconductor switching device mounting portions and said output terminal bus bars.

7. An electric connection box according to claim 1, wherein a control circuit board for controlling driving of said semiconductor switching devices is provided opposite the first surface of said heat radiation member.

8. An electric connection box according to claim 7, wherein board connection terminals that stand upright from the first surface of said heat radiation member comprise bent-up portions of said heat radiation member-side bus bars on which said semiconductor switching devices are mounted, and said control circuit board is connected to said board connection terminals.

9. An electric connection box according to claim 1, wherein said electrical components are fuse elements.

10. An electric connection box according to claim 1, wherein said plurality of switching devices are a plurality of semiconductor switching devices.

11. An electric connection box according to claim 1, wherein said portions of said heat radiation member-side bus bars extends beyond an end surface of said heat radiation member.

12. An electric connection box according to claim 1, wherein said electrical components bridge between said heat radiation member-side electrical component connection terminals and said bus bar board-side electrical component connection terminals to electrically interconnect the heat radiation member-side and bus bar board-side bus bars.