IP Library Granted Patent US 8,643,984
Granted Patent B2
US 8,643,984 · App. 13/391,715 · Granted Feb 4, 2014

Engine system in which transformer is arranged in independent ventilation path

Inventors: Keisuke Kawakita (Osaka, JP); Toshinobu Fujisawa (Osaka, JP); Tatsuya Kawano (Osaka, JP); Masaaki Ono (Osaka, JP)
Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
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Patent No.
US 8,643,984
App. No.
13/391,715
Granted
Feb 4, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

According to the present invention, even in the case of addition of a transformer for using an engine system with an AC power supply different from the expected voltage of an electrical device, there is substantially no change in the thermal balance in a package due to the presence or absence of the transformer. In the present invention, an engine 2 and an electrical device for driving the engine system are housed in a package 1 . In order for a transformer 20 whose primary side is an AC power supply and whose secondary side is the expected voltage of the electrical device for driving the engine system to be housed in the package, an intake port, an exhaust port, and a ventilation fan for cooling the transformer are provided in a ventilation path that is independent from other devices.

Claims (7)

1. An engine system in which an engine and an electrical device for driving the engine system are housed in a package, comprising:

a transformer with a primary side coupled to an AC power supply and a secondary side which outputs an expected voltage of the electrical device for driving the engine system, the transformer housed in the package and attached to an inner face of a package outer panel forming a part of an outer wall of the package, openings are provided respectively above and below the transformer in the package outer panel, the opening below the transformer, the opening above the transformer, the transformer, and a ventilation fan are housed in and covered by a transformer box that is a common space sectioned off from a space in which another device is housed inside the package, the transformer box being provided on the inner face of the package outer panel, a ventilation duct is provided on an outer face of the package outer panel so as to cover a range from the opening above the transformer to the opening below the transformer, and the interior of the ventilation duct is sectioned into an intake portion in communication with the opening below the transformer and the outside and an exhaust portion in communication with the opening above the transformer and the outside such that the transformer, the ventilation fan, and a ventilation path for the transformer are consolidated on a single package outer panel.

2. The engine system according to claim 1 , wherein a plurality of transformers are provided, the transformers are stacked in a height direction, and a ventilation path is provided around the entire circumference of the transformers.

3. The engine system according to claim 1 , wherein a sealing member is provided on a peripheral part at a top edge and left and right side edges on a face where the ventilation duct and the package are attached, and gutters are respectively provided at a top edge of the openings above and below the transformer in the package.

4. The engine system according to claim 1 , wherein the transformer is provided with a temperature sensor, and output performance is suppressed to a predetermined value in a case where a detected temperature of the temperature sensor is greater than or equal to a predetermined temperature.

5. The engine system according to claim 4 , wherein operation is stopped if the detected temperature of the temperature sensor is greater than or equal to a second predetermined temperature that is higher than the predetermined temperature.

6. The engine system according to claim 5 , wherein the transformer is provided with a temperature switch, and at a third predetermined temperature that is higher than the second predetermined temperature, the temperature switch operates and reception of power from the AC power supply is cut off.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Aug 26, 2020
From: YANMAR CO., LTD.
To: YANMAR POWER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 054162/0112 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 23, 2012
From: KAWAKITA, KEISUKE; FUJISAWA, TOSHINOBU; KAWANO, TATSUYA; ONO, MASAAKI
To: YANMAR CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 027749/0122 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2009-196583 · Aug 27, 2009 · national
Continuity (1)
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