Power conversion apparatus
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsMasanori Shin, Takayuki Komatsu, Katsuhiro Nakagawa, Yasunori Yamamoto
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Abstract
A power conversion apparatus includes: a cooling air passage defined with cooling fins of upper and lower converters and cooling fins of an inverter opposed to each other; upper and lower blowing fans provided upstream of the cooling air passage; and upper and lower sucking fans provided downstream of the cooling air passage and at positions offset from the converters. The blowing fans are provided for supplying cooling air from upstream of the cooling air passage, and the sucking fans are provided for discharging air from within a casing of the apparatus to the outside.
Claims4
A portable power conversion apparatus for outputting AC electric power to an outside of the apparatus, the portable power conversion apparatus comprising:
- an apparatus casing;
- wheels provided at the apparatus casing;
- a plurality of power conversion units provided within the apparatus casing and configured to convert DC electric power into AC electric power;
- heat radiation sections respectively provided with the plurality of power conversion units;
- a cooling air passage defined with the plurality of power conversion units disposed in such a manner that the heat radiation sections of the power conversion units are opposed to each other;
- a first inlet louver provided at an entrance of the cooling air passage;
- a first outlet louver provided at an exit of the cooling air passage;
- a second outlet louver provided at a position spaced from the power conversion units defining the cooling air passage;
- a sucking fan provided at the first inlet louver;
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- a discharging fan provided at the second outlet louver,
- wherein the discharging fan is provided at a position spaced from the power conversion units defining the cooling air passage, and
- the cooling air passage from the first inlet louver to the first outlet louver is in parallel to an axial direction of the wheels.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.