Relay busbar device with built-in current sensor for vehicle

• US 9,358,939 B2
• Filed: 02/22/2013
• Issued: 06/07/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/22/2012
• 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: Kondo, Tomoyuki, Ohashi, Shingo, Baba, Takeshi, Suzuki, Izumi
• Primary Examiner(s): Fureman, Jared
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bukhari, Aqeel
• Application Number:
  US13/774,638
• Publication Number:
  US 20130214593A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,201 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/03 for supply of electrical power to vehicle subsystems or for circuit arrangements for charging batteries H02J7/00
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 15/207 Constructional details independent of the type of device used

Abstract

A relay busbar device of one embodiment is a relay busbar device with a built-in current sensor, which is interposed between a motor casing and an inverter casing, and includes a relay busbar both ends of which enter into both of the casings; a resin plate, through which the relay busbar penetrates, and which is interposed between the two casings; a magnetic core, positioned within the resin plate and surrounding the relay busbar; and a magnetic sensor provided in a removed portion of the magnetic core. The relay busbar is mold-formed integrally with the resin plate during resin molding thereof, and changes in magnetic field occurring in the removed portion due to the current flowing in the relay busbar are detected by the magnetic sensor, and the value of the current flowing in the relay busbar is measured.

Claims

1. A relay busbar device with a built-in current sensor, which is interposed between a motor casing and an inverter casing, comprising:

a relay busbar, both ends of which enter into both of the casings;

a resin plate, through which the relay busbar penetrates, and which is interposed between the two casings;

a magnetic core, positioned within the resin plate and surrounding the relay busbar; and

a magnetic sensor, provided in a removed portion of the magnetic core,

wherein the relay busbar is mold-formed integrally with the resin plate during resin molding thereof, and incorporates therein a current sensor in which a change in magnetic field occurring in the removed portion due to current flowing in the relay busbar is detected by the magnetic sensor and a value of the current flowing in the relay busbar is measured.

2. The relay busbar device according to claim 1, wherein packing surrounding a substrate on which are mounted the relay busbar, the magnetic core and the magnetic sensor is provided on a face of the resin plate on the motor side, and leakage of motor lubricating oil from the motor interior to the outside is prevented by the packing.

3. The relay busbar device according to claim 2, wherein a circuit substrate on which the magnetic sensor is mounted is built into the resin plate, and by covering the circuit substrate with a resin cover and fitting the resin cover into the resin plate, the circuit substrate is positioned and fastened.

4. The relay busbar device according to claim 1, wherein an interface sealing material is applied to a surface of the relay busbar, and close adhesion between the relay busbar and the resin plate is secured.

5. The relay busbar device according to claim 1, wherein the magnetic core is also mold-formed integrally with the resin plate during resin molding thereof.

6. The relay busbar device according to claim 5, wherein an interface sealing material is applied to a surface of the magnetic core, and close adhesion between the magnetic core and the resin plate is secured.

7. The relay busbar device according to claim 1, wherein a space enabling insertion of the magnetic core is formed in the resin plate, and the magnetic core is fitted into the space and fastened, and is thereby built into the space.

8. The relay busbar device according to claim 1, wherein the magnetic core is formed of a compacted powder magnetic member.