Cooling structure for high tension electrical equipment

• US 7,004,233 B2
• Filed: 09/26/2002
• Issued: 02/28/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Takedomi, Harumi, Hasegawa, Osamu, Aitaka, Kazuhiko
• Primary Examiner(s): CIRIC, LJILJANA V
• Application Number:
  US10/254,768
• Publication Number:
  US 20030067747A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,251 Days
• Field of Search: 165/47, 165/104.33, 165/41, 165/96, 165/122, 165/80.3, 361/690, 361/694, 361/695, 454/228, 454/236, 454/184, 454/267, 454/309, 454/49, 622/592
• US Class Current: 165/47
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/20909 Forced ventilation, e.g. on heat dissipaters coupled to components
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/20918 the components being isolated from air flow, e.g. hollow heat sinks, wind tunnels or funnels

Abstract

A high tension electrical equipment cooling structure for cooling batteries which supply electricity to the operating motor via an inverter, and the inverter using cooling air, and includes an equipment box for guiding cooling air introduced from a cooling air inlet port into a cooling air outlet port, and a fan for introducing cooling air from the cooling air inlet port. A shutter that includes an elastic material is disposed inside the intake duct. The shutter closes off the cooling air flow path, and when negative pressure is generated downstream of the shutter due to the operation of the fan, the shutter undergoes elastic deformation, and as a result, the cooling air flow path is opened.

Claims

1. An electrical equipment cooling device, the device comprising:

an intake duct having a cooling air intake port;

an exhaust duct having a cooling air exhaust port;

an equipment box disposed between the intake port and the exhaust port for guiding cooling air introduced from the intake duct to the exhaust duct along with an air flow;

a fan for introducing the cooling air from said cooling air intake port to the cooling air exhaust port, said fan being disposed at the cooling air exhaust port, on an opposite side of the exhaust duct from the air intake port; and

a valve for opening and closing said intake duct, said valve being disposed within the intake duct;

wherein said valve comprises an elastic material, and said valve is opened to admit a flow of the cooling air into said intake duct during operation of said fan.

2. An electrical equipment cooling device according to claim 1, wherein said intake duct comprises a foaming resin.

3. An electrical equipment cooling device according to claim 1, wherein a battery box and high tension electrical equipment are provided in parallel in said equipment box.

4. An electrical equipment cooling device according to claim 3, wherein said battery box is provided between the intake duct and the exhaust duct.

5. An electrical equipment cooling device according to claim 1, wherein said intake port and said exhaust duct are provided on said equipment box.