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Granted Patent B2
US 12,660,124 · App. 18/524,763 · Granted Jun 16, 2026

Electronic device and power conversion device

Inventors: Daiki Kudo (Hitachinaka, JP); Yoshiharu Tanabe (Hitachinaka, JP); Kohei Nakano (Hitachinaka, JP); Hiroyuki Nakade (Hitachinaka, JP); Kenichi Sasaki (Utsunomiya, JP); Takahiro Uneme (Tokyo, JP); Ryuta Wakabayashi (Tokyo, JP)
Assignees: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.; HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
H05K7/20272H05K7/14322H05K7/20927
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Patent No.
US 12,660,124
App. No.
18/524,763
Granted
Jun 16, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

An electronic device includes a supply refrigerant pipe that is connected to an opening end. The supply refrigerant pipe has a connection opening end that is directly connected to the opening end, a refrigerant pipe-side reduced diameter flow path in which flow path area decreases with increasing distance from the connection opening end, and a small diameter flow path connected to an end portion of the refrigerant pipe-side reduced diameter flow path on a side opposite to the connection opening end A main body case has, as parts of the refrigerant flow path, a case-side reduced diameter flow path in which flow path area decreases with increasing distance from the opening end, and a flat flow path formed in a shape flatter than the small diameter flow path and connected to an end portion of the case-side reduced diameter flow path on a side opposite to the opening end.

Claims (23)

1 . An electronic device comprising:

an electronic component;

a main body case which accommodates the electronic component and in which an opening end of a refrigerant flow path is provided; and

a refrigerant pipe that has a flange which is fixed to an outer wall surface of the main body case, and that is connected to the opening end,

wherein the refrigerant pipe has

a connection opening end that is directly connected to the opening end,

a refrigerant pipe-side reduced diameter flow path in which flow path area decreases with increasing distance from the connection opening end, the refrigerant pipe-side reduced diameter flow path being connected to the connection opening end, and

a small diameter flow path connected to an end portion of the refrigerant pipe-side reduced diameter flow path on a side opposite to the connection opening end, and

the main body case has, as parts of the refrigerant flow path,

a case-side reduced diameter flow path in which flow path area decreases with increasing distance from the connection opening end, the case-side reduced diameter flow path being connected to the connection opening end,

a flat flow path formed in a shape flatter than the small diameter flow path and connected to an end portion of the case-side reduced diameter flow path on a side opposite to the opening end, and

an inner wall surface of the refrigerant pipe-side reduced diameter flow path and an inner wall surface of the case-side reduced diameter flow path are tapered surfaces.

2 . The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein the flat flow path is formed in a shape in which a height dimension in an up-down direction is smaller than a width dimension in a horizontal direction when viewed from a direction along a direction in which a refrigerant flows.

3 . The electronic device according to claim 2 , wherein the flat flow path has

an upstream portion that is located on an upstream side in a flow direction of the refrigerant and linearly extends in the horizontal direction,

a downstream portion that is located on a downstream side in the flow direction of the refrigerant, is arranged in the up-down direction with respect to the upstream portion, and extends parallel to the upstream portion, and

a curved portion that is a U-shaped portion and connects the upstream portion and the downstream portion.

4 . The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein a flow path area of the flat flow path is the same as a flow path area of the small diameter flow path.

5 . The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein a cross-sectional shape of the small diameter flow path is a perfect circular shape, and a cross-sectional shape of the flat flow path is an oval shape.

6 . The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein the connection opening end and the opening end are formed in the same shape.

7 . A power conversion device comprising:

the electronic component that performs power conversion; and

the electronic device according to claim 1 .

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 5, 2023
From: KUDO, DAIKI; TANABE, YOSHIHARU; NAKANO, KOHEI; NAKADE, HIROYUKI; SASAKI, KENICHI; UNEME, TAKAHIRO; WAKABAYASHI, RYUTA
To: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.; HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
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Priority Claims (1)
JP 2022-192757 · Dec 1, 2022 · national
Continuity (1)
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