Power drive apparatus

Abstract

The power drive apparatus comprises a main circuit board including an input terminal block for connection to power-source wires mounted on a major surface of the main circuit board; a power module including a converter unit having diodes and an inverter unit having switching devices and diodes, the power module, mounted on the other major surface of the main circuit board, being for converting and outputting electric power supplied through the input terminal block; a heat-dissipating plate, connected with the power module in contact with a surface of the power module opposite to the main circuit board, for dissipating heat generated by the power module; and a filter module including a filter substrate, provided with a filter circuit and being disposed in the middle of an interconnecting path between the input terminal block and an input section of the converter unit, for suppressing the transmission of noise generated by the switching devices to a power source side, wherein the heat-dissipating plate provides therein a concave space, and the filter module is received in the concave space and detachably mounted on the heat-dissipating plate.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.