Electric device mounted in electric compressor

1. An electric device comprising:

a circuit board arranged in cooling medium in a housing and having an electric element and an external coupling electrode, the circuit board including an insulation substrate made of at least a thermoplastic resin, the electric element being mounted in the board, a wiring portion electrically coupling the electric element with the external coupling electrode, and the electric element and the wiring portion being sealed with the thermoplastic resin;

an external coupling terminal electrically coupled with the external coupling electrode; and

a separation member for separating the external coupling terminal and a connection portion between the external coupling electrode and the external coupling terminal and away from the cooling medium,

wherein the circuit board is attached to an inner wall of the housing under a condition that a part of the external coupling terminal is exposed to an outside of the housing from a through hole, which penetrates a wall of the housing,

wherein the separation member is made of thermoplastic resin,

wherein the thermoplastic resin of the separation member is arranged on a surface of the circuit board, which faces the inner wall, surrounds the external coupling terminal and the connection portion, and surrounds a position of the surface of the circuit board facing the through hole, and

wherein the thermoplastic resin of the separation member is tightly attached to the inner wall of the housing so that the resin is attached to the inner wall of the housing, and the external coupling terminal and the connection portion are separated from the cooling medium.

2. The electric device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the insulation substrate has bendability, and

wherein the circuit board is attached to the inner wall of the housing to fit a shape of the inner wall of the housing.

3. The electric device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the insulation substrate includes a plurality of substrate films made of thermoplastic resin, and

wherein the plurality of substrate films are stacked and bonded to each other.

4. The electric device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the insulation substrate includes a substrate film made of thermoplastic resin and a substrate film made of thermosetting resin,

wherein the substrate film made of thermoplastic resin provides an adhesive layer, and

wherein the substrate film made of thermoplastic resin and the substrate film made of thermosetting resin are stacked alternately and bonded to each other.

5. The electric device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the housing is a part of an electric compressor, and

wherein the circuit board is a driving circuit of the electric compressor.

6. The electric device according to claim 5 ,

wherein the electric element includes a power device for providing an inverter.

7. The electric device according to claim 5 ,

wherein the housing includes a cooling medium suction port and a cooling medium discharge port,

wherein, an electric motor of the electric compressor; the driving circuit for driving the electric motor; a compression mechanism unit driven by a rotation driving force of the electric motor, sucking the cooling medium from the cooling medium suction port, compressing the cooling medium and discharging the cooling medium through the cooling medium discharge port; and a cooling medium passage, in which the cooling medium flows, disposed between the cooling medium suction port and the compression mechanism unit are disposed in the housing, and

wherein the driving circuit is arranged in the cooling medium passage.

8. The electric device according to claim 7 , wherein the electric motor includes:

a driving shaft rotatably supported in the housing and transmitting the rotation driving force to the compression mechanism unit;

a stator generating a rotation magnetic field with a driving current from the driving circuit and having a stator core arranged on an outside of the driving shaft in a radial direction and a stator coil winded around the stator core; and

a rotor arranged on a center side of the driving shaft in the radial direction with respect to the stator core and rotating the driving shaft according to the rotation magnetic field generated by the stator, and

wherein the cooling medium passage is disposed between the inner wall of the housing and an outer wall of the stator core facing the inner wall of the housing, and extends in an axial direction of the driving shaft.

9. The electric device according to claim 8 ,

wherein the outer wall of the stator core includes a first concavity,

wherein the first concavity is concaved toward the center side of the driving shaft in the radial direction, and extends in the axial direction of the driving shaft, and

wherein the cooling medium passage is disposed between the inner wall of the housing and the first concavity.

10. The electric device according to claim 8 ,

wherein the inner wall of the housing includes a second concavity,

wherein the second concavity is concaved toward the outside of the driving shaft in the radial direction, and extends in the axial direction of the driving shaft, and

wherein the cooling medium passage is disposed between the second concavity and the outer wall of the stator core.

11. The electric device according to claim 5 ,

wherein the driving circuit includes an electric element region, in which the electric element is arranged, and a periphery region surrounding the electric element region, in which the electric element is not arranged, on a virtual plane perpendicular to a thickness direction.

12. An electric device comprising:

a circuit board arranged in cooling medium in a housing and having an electric element and an external coupling electrode, the circuit board including an insulation substrate made of at least a thermoplastic resin, the electric element being mounted in the board, a wiring portion electrically coupling the electric element with the external coupling electrode, and the electric element and the wiring portion being sealed with the thermoplastic resin;

an external coupling terminal electrically coupled with the external coupling electrode; and

a separation member for separating the external coupling terminal and a connection portion between the external coupling electrode and the external coupling terminal and away from the cooling medium,

wherein the circuit board is attached to the inner wall of the housing via the separation member under a condition that a part of the external coupling terminal is exposed to an outside of the housing through the through hole, which penetrates a wall of the housing,

wherein the separation member is made of adhesive,

wherein the adhesive of the separation member is arranged on a surface of the circuit board facing the inner wall, surrounds the external coupling terminal and the connection portion, and surrounds a position of the surface of the circuit board facing the through hole, and

wherein the inner wall of the housing and the surface of the circuit board facing the inner wall are bonded to each other with the adhesive so that the external coupling terminal and the connection portion are separated from the cooling medium.

13. An electric device comprising:

a circuit board arranged in cooling medium in a housing and having an electric element and an external coupling electrode, the circuit board including an insulation substrate made of at least a thermoplastic resin, the electric element being mounted in the board, a wiring portion electrically coupling the electric element with the external coupling electrode, and the electric element and the wiring portion being sealed with the thermoplastic resin;

an external coupling terminal electrically coupled with the external coupling electrode; and

a separation member for separating the external coupling terminal and a connection portion between the external coupling electrode and the external coupling terminal and away from the cooling medium,

wherein the circuit board is attached to an inner wall of the housing via a part of the separation member under a condition that a part of the external coupling terminal is exposed to an outside of the housing through the through hole, which penetrates a wall of the housing,

wherein the separation member includes a ring-shaped elastic member and a ring-shaped pressurizing member,

wherein the elastic member is arranged on the surface of the circuit board facing the inner wall, surrounds the external coupling terminal and the connection portion, and surrounds a position of the surface of the circuit board facing the through hole, and

wherein the pressurizing member presses the circuit board on the inner wall so that the circuit board is attached to the housing, and wherein the circuit board is pressed to the inner wall with the pressurizing member, and the elastic member is tightly attached to the inner wall of the housing and the surface of the circuit board facing the inner wall so that the external coupling terminal and the connection portion are separated from the cooling medium.

14. An electric device comprising:

a circuit board arranged in cooling medium in a housing and having an electric element and an external coupling electrode, the circuit board including an insulation substrate made of at least a thermoplastic resin, the electric element being mounted in the board, a wiring portion electrically coupling the electric element with the external coupling electrode, and the electric element and the wiring portion being sealed with the thermoplastic resin;

an external coupling terminal electrically coupled with the external coupling electrode; and

a separation member for separating the external coupling terminal and a connection portion between the external coupling electrode and the external coupling terminal and away from the cooling medium,

wherein the separation member includes a base attached to a wall of the housing and an adhesive,

wherein the base seals a first through hole, which penetrates the wall of the housing, and is attached to the wall of the housing,

wherein the adhesive bonds the circuit board to a mounting surface of the base, which faces the circuit board,

wherein the base of the separation member includes a second through hole, which couples between an inside of the housing and an outside of the housing,

wherein the external coupling terminal is arranged in the second through hole under a condition that the circuit board is attached to the housing,

wherein the adhesive of the separation member is arranged on the surface of the circuit board, which faces the mounting surface of the base, surrounds the external coupling terminal and the connection portion, and surrounds a position of the surface of the circuit board facing the second through hole, and

wherein the mounting surface of the base and the surface of the circuit board facing the mounting surface are bonded with the adhesive so that the external coupling terminal and the connection portion are separated from the cooling medium.