US 12,324,125 B2
Electric circuit device
Akihiro Goto, Hitachinaka (JP); Keiichi Tadokoro, Hitachinaka (JP); Morio Kuwano, Hitachinaka (JP); Masaru Kamoshida, Hitachinaka (JP); Fusanori Nishikimi, Hitachinaka (JP); and Tomoyuki Suzuki, Wako (JP)
Assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD., Hitachinaka (JP); and HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/783,196
Filed by HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD., Hitachinaka (JP); and HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Dec. 10, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/046003
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 7, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/117803, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 17, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-223178 (JP), filed on Dec. 10, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0015460 A1, Jan. 19, 2023
Int. Cl. H05K 7/20 (2006.01); H02M 7/00 (2006.01); H02M 7/42 (2006.01)
CPC H05K 7/20272 (2013.01) [H02M 7/003 (2013.01); H02M 7/42 (2013.01); H05K 7/20927 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electric circuit device comprising:
a first electric component provided with a body having a coolant inlet and a coolant outlet;
a first case that accommodates the first electric component and has a cooling channel for cooling the first electric component and a discharge port of the cooling channel, wherein a center in a lengthwise direction and a center in a widthwise direction of the coolant outlet of the first electric component are located coaxially with a center of the discharge port of the cooling channel;
a second case that accommodates a second electric component and has a communication channel that communicates with the discharge port of the cooling channel;
a first seal portion that is provided in a peripheral edge part of the discharge port of the cooling channel and seals the first case and the first electric component;
a second seal portion that is provided outside the first seal portion with respect to the discharge port of the cooling channel and seals the first case and the first electric component;
a through hole that is provided in the first case between the first seal portion and the second seal portion and penetrates the first case from a first electric component side to a second electric component side; and
a wall that is provided on one of the first case and the second case,
wherein the wall includes
an inner annular part surrounding a periphery of the cooling channel, and
an outer arc part provided outside the inner annular part,
one end of the outer arc part is connected to the inner annular part, and another end of the outer arc part is separated from the inner annular part,
the through hole is provided between the inner annular part and the outer arc part and in a vicinity of the one end of the outer arc part connected to the inner annular part,
a center angle θ at a center of the cooling channel of a straight line passing through the other end of the outer arc part and a center of the cooling channel with respect to the straight line passing through a center of the through hole and the center of the discharge port of the cooling channel is more than 90 degrees,
wherein a volume between the inner annular part of the wall and the outer arc part of the wall provided to surround the through hole in a space sandwiched between the first case and the second case is larger than a volume in which air in the first case is thermally shrunk by temperature change, and
wherein the inner annular part of the wall and the outer arc part of the wall are formed concentrically with the discharge port of the cooling channel.