Reinforced metal core board and electric connection box having the same

• US 9,426,879 B2
• Filed: 10/20/2011
• Issued: 08/23/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Inventors: Ooishi, Manabu, Sugiura, Maki, Yamamoto, Kazuhiro, Ogawa, Kenji
• Primary Examiner(s): Smith, Courtney
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ervin, Jessey R
• Application Number:
  US13/879,864
• Publication Number:
  US 20130206444A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,769 Days
• Field of Search: 174/250, 174/255, 361/622, 361/795
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 3/086 Assembled boxes
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 1/02 Details
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 1/0203 Cooling of mounted components H05K1/0272 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 2201/09663 Divided layout, i.e. conductors divided in two or more parts branched layout H05K2201/09254
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 3/4641 having integrally laminated metal sheets or special power cores

Abstract

For providing an electric connection box including a metal core board, which can limit increase of a size thereof and be prevented from bending along the slit, the electric connection box 10 includes a metal core board 1, in which a plurality of core metal plates 21, 22 is laminated and insulation resin is filled between each of the plurality of core metal plates 21, 22. The plurality of core metal plates 21, 22 are provide with slits 3A, 3B to divide the core metal plates 21, 22 to a plurality of separate plates 21a, 21b, 22a, 22b and be filled with insulation resin. The slits 3A, 3B is formed not to overlap each other on the same one line when viewing in a vertical direction about the metal core board 1. The electric connection box 10 distributes electric power inputted from a plurality of power systems to each separate plates 21a, 21b, 22a, 22b.

Claims

1. A metal core board which is used for an electric connection box, comprising:

a plurality of core metal plates to be laminated that are separated in a vertical direction;

insulation resin filled between each of the plurality of core metal plates; and

a slit formed in at least one of the plurality of core metal plates so as to divide the core metal plate to a plurality of separate plates and being filled with the insulation resin therebetween, wherein the slit is disposed to entirely overlap, at a corresponding lateral position, a region of another vertically separated core metal plate that defines a contiguous sheet of metal so that each contiguous sheet of metal at the corresponding lateral position overlaps at least one slit, and wherein the slit is not formed in at least one of the plurality of core metal plates, thereby a part of the core metal plate having a weak strength due to formation of the slit is reinforced.

2. An electric connection box, comprising the metal core board according to claim 1 for distributing electric power inputted from a plurality of power source systems respectively to each of the core metal plates and each of the separate plates.

3. An electric connection box, comprising the metal core board according to claim 1, for distributing electric power inputted form a plurality of power source systems respectively to each of the core metal plates and each of the separate plates.

4. The metal core board according to claim 1, wherein upper and lower surfaces of each of the plurality of core metal plates are laminated by the insulation resin.

5. The metal core board according to claim 1, wherein the slit formed in the at least one of the plurality of core metal plates is laterally separated from another slit formed in another of the plurality of core metal plates.

6. The metal core board according to claim 5, wherein a lateral distance separating the slit and the other slit exceeds a width of either of the slits.

7. The metal core board according to claim 1, wherein the core metal plates located adjacent to each other in the vertical direction are adhered to each other via only the insulation resin.