US 10,381,902 B2Granted

Integrated system

AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.

InventorsTadahiro Fukushima, Tsukasa Aiba, Takahiro Hagimoto, Takahide Hashimoto

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Abstract

An integrated system includes a controller, a drive device, and a fastening supporting member. The controller has a controller connector. The drive device has a drive device connector which is connected to the controller connector so that the drive device is electrically coupled to the controller. Via the fastening supporting member, the controller and the drive device are maintained in an electrically coupled state in which the drive device connector is connected to the controller connector. At least part of the controller connector and the drive device connector, as viewed from a vertical direction, is disposed within an area from a first line segment which is perpendicular to a virtual line connecting a center of gravity of the controller and the fastening supporting member and which passes the center of gravity to a second line segment which is perpendicular to the virtual line and which passes the fastening supporting member.

Claims16

Dependent claims

An integrated unit comprising:

a control unit having a control unit connector;
and
a controlled unit that has a controlled unit connector to be fitted into the control unit connector and is electrically coupled to the control unit by causing the control unit connector and the controlled unit connector to be fitted into each other, the control unit connector and the controlled unit connector being disposed between the control unit and the controlled unit and the control unit being disposed on a top surface of the controlled unit,
wherein the control unit and the controlled unit are held in a coupled state in which electrical coupling is accomplished by a fastening supporting member;
wherein at least part of the control unit connector and the controlled unit connector, as viewed from a vertical direction, is disposed within an area through which a line segment passes, the line segment being perpendicular to a virtual line connecting a center of gravity of the control unit and the fastening supporting member, the area being provided between the center of gravity and the fastening supporting member in a direction along the virtual line as viewed from the vertical direction,
wherein the controlled unit includes an electric rotating machine having a rotor and a stator opposite to the rotor, and
wherein the area overlaps the electric rotating machine as viewed from the vertical direction.

4 more elements

An integrated system comprising:

a controller having a controller connector;
a drive device having a top surface on which the controller is disposed, the drive device having a drive device connector which is connected to the controller connector so that the drive device is electrically coupled to the controller, the controller connector and the drive device connector being disposed between the controller and the drive device;
and
a fastening supporting member via which the controller and the drive device are maintained in an electrically coupled state in which the drive device connector is connected to the controller connector, at least part of the controller connector and the drive device connector, as viewed from a vertical direction, being disposed within an area from a first line segment which is perpendicular to a virtual line connecting a center of gravity of the controller and the fastening supporting member and which passes the center of gravity to a second line segment which is perpendicular to the virtual line and which passes the fastening supporting member,
wherein the drive device includes an electric rotating machine having a rotor and a stator opposite to the rotor, and
wherein the area overlaps the electric rotating machine as viewed from the vertical direction.

3 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/008,446Filed 28 Jan 2016
Priority: JP 2015-01449128 Jan 2015
Published: US 2016/0218602 A128 Jul 2016
Granted: 13 Aug 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification14 codes

H02K 11/33
Structural association with control circuits or drive circuits: drive circuits, e.g. power electronics
H02K 5/225
Auxiliary parts of casings not covered by groups H02K5/06-H02K5/20, e.g. shaped to form connection boxes or terminal boxes: terminal boxes or…
H02K 7/006
Arrangements for handling mechanical energy structurally associated with dynamo-electric machines, e.g. structural association with mechanical…:…
H02K 11/225
Devices for sensing speed or position, or actuated thereby: detecting coils