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US 9,868,490 B2Granted
Electric vehicle
AssigneeKawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMasafumi Inoue
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Abstract
An electric vehicle comprises an electric motor which generates driving power for driving a wheel; a battery case accommodating a battery storing DC power to be supplied to the electric motor, in a battery space in an interior of the battery case; and an inverter which converts the DC power supplied from the battery into AC power and supplies the AC power to the electric motor, wherein the inverter is placed above the battery to overlap with the battery case when viewed from above.
Claims9
An electric vehicle comprising:
- an electric motor which generates driving power for driving a wheel;
- a battery case accommodating a battery storing DC power to be supplied to the electric motor, in a battery space in an interior of the battery case;
- and
- an inverter which converts the DC power supplied from the battery into AC power and supplies the AC power to the electric motor,
- wherein the inverter is placed above the battery to overlap with the battery case when viewed from above,
- wherein the electric motor is provided at a lower side of the battery case, and
- wherein an electric wire connecting the electric motor to the inverter vertically runs through an internal space of the battery case.
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An electric vehicle comprising:
- an electric motor which generates driving power for driving a wheel;
- a battery case accommodating a battery storing DC power to be supplied to the electric motor, in a battery space in an interior of the battery case;
- an inverter which converts the DC power supplied from the battery into AC power and supplies the AC power to the electric motor;
- and
- a cooling medium pipe which circulates a cooling medium to the inverter,
- wherein the inverter is placed above the battery to overlap with the battery case when viewed from above,
- wherein the cooling medium pipe runs through an internal space of the battery case, and
- wherein the cooling medium pipe vertically runs through the internal space of the battery case and circulates the cooling medium to a cooling component provided at a lower side of the battery case and to the inverter.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.