POWER CONVERSION DEVICE

• US 20140198450A1
• Filed: 01/14/2014
• Published: 07/17/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: IMURA, Hitoshi, BABA, Ryusuke, MORIMOTO, Yutaka
• Application Number:
  US14/154,569
• Publication Number:
  US 20140198450A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 361/689
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/1432 specially adapted for power drive units or power converters
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/14322 wherein the control and power circuits of a power converter are arranged within the same casing
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/20927 Liquid coolant without phase change
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 9/0007 Casings standardised racks H05K9/0062

Abstract

A power conversion device includes a laminated unit, a reactor, a shield, and coolant passages. In the laminated unit, flat-plate semiconductor modules housing semiconductor elements and flat-plate cooling plates are laminated. The shield is interposed between the reactor and electronic components. The coolant passages supply coolant to or discharge coolant from the laminated unit. The coolant passages pass through an interior of the shield.

Claims

1. A power conversion device comprising:

a laminated unit in which flat-plate semiconductor modules and flat-plate cooling plates are laminated, the flat-plate semiconductor modules housing semiconductor elements;

a reactor; and

a shield interposed between the reactor and electronic components, the shield having coolant passages which supply coolant to or discharge coolant from the laminated unit through the shield.

2. The power conversion device according to claim 1,

wherein a portion of the coolant passages is integral with the shield.

3. The power conversion device according to claim 1,

wherein the shield contacts an end surface of the laminated unit in a laminating direction.

4. The power conversion device according to claim 1, wherein the shield includes a plurality of plates that are coupled together.

5. The power conversion device according to claim 1, wherein the shield contacts the reactor.

6. The power conversion device according to claim 1, wherein

the electronic components are a capacitor module and a control board, and

the shield is a cooling block, the cooling block includes an upper plate and a side plate, the cooling block has the coolant passages which supply coolant to or discharge coolant from the laminated unit, the upper plate is interposed between the reactor and the control board, and the side plate is interposed between the reactor and the capacitor module.