Electrical assembly
AssigneeLear Corporation
InventorsRutunj Rai, Robert M. Schmidt, Aric Anglin
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Abstract
An electrical assembly may include a bus bar assembly, a fuse connected to the bus bar assembly, a contactor connected to the bus bar assembly, a bracket connected to the bus bar assembly, and/or a cooling member connected to the bracket such that the fuse is indirectly connected to the cooling member via the bus bar assembly and the bracket. A method of operating an electrical assembly may include controlling the contactor to provide current from a power source to a load, generating heat via the current flowing through the fuse, conducting the heat from the fuse to the bus bar assembly, conducting the heat from the bus bar assembly to the cooling member, and/or dissipating the heat via the cooling member.
Claims20
An electrical assembly, comprising:
- a bus bar assembly:
- a fuse connected to the bus bar assembly;
- a contactor connected to the bus bar assembly;
- a bracket connected to the bus bar assembly;
- and
- a cooling member connected to the bracket such that the fuse is indirectly connected to the cooling member via the bus bar assembly and the bracket;
- wherein a bus bar of the bus bar assembly includes a protrusion configured to facilitate heat transfer from the fuse to the cooling member, and the protrusion is disposed directly between the bracket and the fuse.
An electrical assembly, comprising:
- a bus bar assembly:
- a fuse connected to the bus bar assembly;
- a contactor connected to the bus bar assembly;
- a bracket connected to the bus bar assembly;
- and
- a cooling member connected to the bracket such that the fuse is indirectly connected to the cooling member via the bus bar assembly and the bracket and one or more additional contactors;
- wherein the bracket includes a sleeve for each of the contactor and the one or more additional contactors;
- and
- the contactor is disposed at least partially in the sleeve.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.