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Granted Patent B2
US 11,398,761 · App. 16/232,087 · Granted Jul 26, 2022

Motor comprising coolant flow path

Inventors: Yoshihisa Okuhata (Kanagawa, JP); Tadayuki Hatsuda (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
H02K5/20H02K9/00H02K9/19H02K11/0094H02K11/25H02K11/33H02P6/10H02P6/16H02P29/64H02P29/68
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Patent No.
US 11,398,761
App. No.
16/232,087
Granted
Jul 26, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

A motor includes: a housing that accommodates a stator that has a field coil and a rotor; an inverter that is provided in the housing; a voltage boosting circuit that has a reactor provided in the housing; and a coolant flow path that is provided at a position at which the coolant flow path overlaps with the inverter and the voltage boosting circuit in the housing in a diameter direction, and the inverter has a control board that controls a drive current or a drive voltage and a drive element that is provided on the side of the housing with respect to the control board and supplies power to the field coil in accordance with control from the control board.

Claims (24)

1. A motor comprising:

a housing that accommodates a stator that has a field coil and a rotor;

an inverter that is provided in the housing;

a voltage boosting circuit that has a reactor provided in the housing; and

a coolant flow path that is provided at a position at which the coolant flow path overlaps with the inverter and the voltage boosting circuit in the housing in a diameter direction,

wherein the inverter has a control board that controls a drive current or a drive voltage and a drive element that is provided on a side of the housing with respect to the control board and supplies power to the field coil in accordance with control from the control board,

wherein the coolant flow path extends in a circumferential direction, and

while viewing from a rotation center axis direction of the rotor, at least a part of the coolant flow path is located between the stator and the inverter in the diameter direction, and at least a part of the coolant flow path is further located between the stator and the voltage boosting circuit in the diameter direction,

wherein the coolant flow path has a first coolant flow path, a second coolant flow path and a connecting flow path,

the first coolant flow path and the second coolant flow path are arranged in the rotation center axis direction of the rotor,

the connecting flow path is connected with the first coolant flow path and the second coolant flow path,

a coolant flowed into the first coolant flow path flows from one side in a circumferential direction toward another side in the circumferential direction and flows into the second coolant flow path via the connecting flow path,

the coolant flowed into the second coolant flow path flows from the another side in the circumferential direction toward the one side in the circumferential direction,

an accommodation part, configured to accommodate the inverter and the voltage boosting circuit, is disposed on the housing, and

when viewing from the rotation center axis direction of the rotor, the connecting flow path does not overlap with the inverter and the voltage boosting circuit in the diameter direction,

a flow-in part is disposed on the first coolant flow path,

a flow-out part is disposed on the second coolant flow path,

the flow-in part and the flow-out part line up on a rotation axis direction of the motor.

2. The motor according to claim 1 , wherein the inverter and the voltage boosting circuit are arranged in the rotation center axis direction of the rotor.

3. The motor according to claim 1 , wherein the drive element is arranged on an upstream side of the coolant flow path with respect to the reactor.

4. The motor according to claim 1 , wherein a condenser that smooths a voltage output by the voltage boosting circuit is a shared condenser that smooths a voltage input by the inverter.

5. The motor according to claim 4 , wherein the condenser is arranged on a downstream side of the coolant flow path with respect to the drive element and the reactor.

6. The motor according to claim 4 , wherein a distance between the voltage boosting circuit and the inverter is set such that a parasitic inductance of a supply path through which the voltage output by the voltage boosting circuit is supplied to the inverter is equal to or less than a predetermined value.

7. The motor according to claim 4 , wherein a capacitance of the condenser is set such that a ripple rate of a voltage supplied from the voltage boosting circuit to the inverter is equal to or less than a predetermined value.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 8, 2019
From: OKUHATA, YOSHIHISA; HATSUDA, TADAYUKI
To: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 047923/0592 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2017-252406 · Dec 27, 2017 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20190199160A1 · Jun 27, 2019