JP2006217736A - Structure for installing bus bar to radiator plate - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a structure for installing to a radiator plate a bus bar that is high in the degree of heat conductivity to the radiator plate from the bus bar, and can keep high cooling efficiency without causing the lowering of the degree of the heat conductivity. <P>SOLUTION: The structure for installing the bus bar to the radiator plate comprises the metal radiator plate 1, an electronic circuit component 10 having the bus bar 2 serving as a heating element, an insulating member 3 that insulates the bus bar 2 from the radiator plate 1, and a screw 4. In the structure, the radiator plate 1 has a protrusion 12 extending upward from its upper face 11; a screw hole 14 is formed toward the lower part from the upper end face 13 of the protrusion 12; the bus bar 2 is a plate-shaped conductor piece having a hole 21 to which the protrusion 12 is inserted; the lower face 22 of the bus bar 2 is made to abut against the upper face 11 of the radiator plate 1 via the insulating member 3, by making the protrusion 12 penetrate the hole 21 of the bus bar 2; and the bus bar 2 is fastened to the radiator plate 1, by screwing the screw 4 into the screw hole 14. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a structure for mounting a bus bar used for high-current wiring such as a power electronics circuit to a heat dissipation plate.

  Various power-type vehicles such as internal combustion locomotives, hybrid vehicles, and fuel cell vehicles use single-layer or three-phase inverters for DC-AC conversion, DC-DC converters for DC-DC conversion, and the like. . In so-called power electronics circuit components such as inverters and converters, a large current flows, so heat is generated due to Joule loss, copper loss, etc., and the temperature rises. When the temperature rises, not only the durability and reliability of the circuit components themselves are impaired, but also a fire of the vehicle may be caused.

  Thus, various ideas have been made so far to suppress the temperature rise. For example, in order to suppress the temperature rise of the DC-DC converter, the core of the transformer and the choke coil constituting the converter are brought into contact with a metal heat radiating plate. In addition, the coil itself through which the current that is the heat source flows is composed of a bus bar (long plate-like conductor piece), the bus bar is embedded in the resin plate for insulation, and the lower surface of the resin plate is connected to the heat sink plate at the input / output end of the bus bar. It is closely attached to the upper surface (see, for example, Patent Document 1).

  The conventional technique for closely attaching the bus bar embedded in the resin plate to the heat dissipation plate has several problems. That is, the resin layer of the resin plate is interposed between the bus bar and the upper surface of the heat radiating plate, and the lower surface of the resin plate is simply in close contact with the upper surface of the heat radiating plate. Low degree of cooling efficiency. In addition, the degree of contact is deteriorated due to vibrations caused by running of an automobile, and the cooling efficiency is further reduced.

  In order to increase the degree of close contact, a structure for mounting the bus bar to the heat radiating plate, in which a screw hole is formed in the bus bar and a screw hole is formed on the upper surface of the heat radiating plate and screwed, can be easily considered.

However, there is a problem with the mounting structure in which a screw hole is made in the upper surface of the heat radiating plate and screwed. That is, even if the screws are tightened and brought into close contact with each other at first, the temperature of the bus bar usually becomes about 100 to 150 ° C. Therefore, the elastic force of the resin plate decreases due to the creep phenomenon, the screws loosen, and the degree of close contact is poor. Cooling efficiency decreases more and more.
JP 2002-369527 A

  As described above, the conventional structure for mounting the bus bar to the heat dissipation plate is low in cooling efficiency due to the low thermal conductivity from the bus bar to the heat dissipation plate. However, the cooling efficiency is gradually lowered.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and has a structure in which a bus bar is attached to a heat radiating plate, which has a high thermal conductivity from the bus bar to the heat radiating plate and maintains a high cooling efficiency with little reduction in the thermal conductivity. It is an issue to provide.

  The invention according to claim 1 to solve the problem is a structure for mounting a bus bar to a heat radiating plate, comprising a metal heat radiating plate, an electronic circuit component having a bus bar serving as a heating element, and the bus bar, An insulating member that insulates between the heat dissipating plates and a screw, and the heat dissipating plate has a convex part protruding upward on the upper surface, and a screw hole is formed downward from the upper end surface of the convex part, The bus bar is a plate-like conductor piece having a hole into which the convex portion is inserted, and the convex portion is inserted into the hole of the bus bar so that the lower surface of the bus bar is connected to the upper surface of the heat dissipation plate via the insulating member. The screw is fastened to the heat radiating plate by screwing the screw into the screw hole.

  The bus bar is brought into contact with the heat radiating plate via the insulating member and further fastened with screws, so that the bus bar is pressed against the upper surface of the heat radiating plate. Therefore, the thermal conductivity from the bus bar to the heat radiating plate is high, and the cooling efficiency is high. The heat dissipating plate is made of metal, and a screw is screwed into the screw hole of the convex part to press-fit the bus bar to the heat dissipating plate. The screw tightening torque is applied to the screw head from the upper end surface of the convex part. Balanced with the rotational resistance of the screw due to upward pressure. Therefore, even if the bus bar temperature rises, the amount of creep of the metal is very small. Therefore, the rotational resistance of the screw due to the upward pressure applied from the upper end surface of the convex portion to the screw head does not change, and the screw does not loosen. Furthermore, since the convex portion of the heat radiating plate is inserted into the hole of the bus bar, the bus bar can be easily positioned at the predetermined position of the heat radiating plate by setting the position of the convex portion of the heat radiating plate to a predetermined position.

  The invention according to claim 2 is the mounting structure of the bus bar according to claim 1 to the heat radiating plate, wherein the insulating member is an insulating sheet or insulating grease.

  Even though the insulating sheet and insulating grease are thin, they have high insulation properties, so the distance between the lower surface of the bus bar and the upper surface of the heat radiating plate can be narrowed, the thermal conductivity from the bus bar to the heat radiating plate is further increased, and the cooling efficiency is improved. It gets even higher.

  The invention according to claim 3 made to solve the problem is a mounting structure of a bus bar to a heat radiating plate, a metal heat radiating plate, an electronic circuit component having a bus bar serving as a heating element, a screw, The heat dissipation plate has a convex portion protruding upward on the upper surface, a screw hole is formed downward from the upper end surface of the convex portion, and the bus bar has a plate shape having a hole into which the convex portion is inserted. A conductor piece is resin-molded, the convex portion is fitted into the hole of the bus bar, the lower surface of the bus bar is brought into contact with the upper surface of the heat dissipation plate, and the screw is screwed into the screw hole. The bus bar is fastened to the heat radiating plate.

  Since the bus bar is resin-molded, an insulating member between the bus bar and the heat radiating plate is not required, and the bus bar can be attached to the heat radiating plate in a short time and easily.

  The invention according to claim 4 is the mounting structure of the bus bar according to claim 3 to the heat radiating plate, further comprising heat radiating grease between the resin molded bus bar and the heat radiating plate. It is said.

  Since the resin-molded bus bar is brought into contact with the heat radiating plate via the heat radiating grease, the thermal conductivity from the bus bar to the heat radiating plate is increased, and the cooling efficiency is increased.

  The invention according to claim 5 is the structure for attaching the bus bar to the heat radiating plate according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the convex portion is a prism.

  When the convex portion is a prism, the bus bar hole into which the convex portion is inserted is a square hole, and the bus bar rotation preventing function is exhibited.

  The invention according to claim 6 is the structure for attaching the bus bar to the heat radiating plate according to any one of claims 1 to 5, further comprising a pressure plate between the screw and the bus bar. It is characterized by that.

  The bus bar is brought into contact with the heat radiating plate through the insulating member, and further fastened with screws, so that the bus bar is pressed against the upper surface of the heat radiating plate, but the pressing force of the screw is applied to a wider area by the pressure plate, The thermal conductivity from the bus bar to the heat radiating plate is further increased, and the cooling efficiency is further increased.

  The invention according to claim 7 is the mounting structure of the bus bar according to claim 6 to the heat radiating plate, wherein the pressure plate has a spring shape.

  Even if the insulation member is made of resin, it can be pressurized to a predetermined level or more by the urging force of the spring shape, so that it is possible to prevent a decrease in applied pressure (decrease in thermal conductivity) due to creep.

  The invention according to claim 8 is the mounting structure of the bus bar to the heat radiating plate according to any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein the electronic circuit component is a converter.

  The converter includes a transformer and a choke coil that are magnetic components. The transformer primary coil, secondary coil, and choke coil have a long wiring length, and a large amount of heat is generated due to copper loss due to the skin effect and proximity effect. However, there is a bus bar that forms the input and output ends of these coils. Since it is efficiently cooled by the heat radiating plate, it is possible to prevent a high temperature.

  The bus bar is brought into contact with the heat radiating plate via the insulating member and further fastened with screws, so that the bus bar is pressed against the upper surface of the heat radiating plate. Therefore, the thermal conductivity from the bus bar to the heat radiating plate is high, and the cooling efficiency is high. The heat dissipating plate is made of metal, and a screw is screwed into the screw hole of the convex part to press-fit the bus bar to the heat dissipating plate. The screw tightening torque is applied to the screw head from the upper end surface of the convex part. Balanced with the rotational resistance of the screw due to upward pressure. Therefore, even if the bus bar temperature rises, it is below the creep temperature of the metal, so the rotational resistance of the screw due to the upward pressure applied to the screw head from the upper end surface of the convex portion does not change, and the screw does not loosen.

  The best mode for carrying out the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

(Embodiment 1)
As shown in FIG. 1, the most basic structure for mounting the bus bar to the heat radiating plate is a metal heat radiating plate 1, an electronic circuit component (not shown) having a bus bar 2, and the bus bar 2 and the heat radiating plate 1. The heat radiating plate 1 has a convex portion 12 protruding upward on the upper surface 11, and a screw hole 14 is formed below the upper end surface 13 of the convex portion 12. The bus bar 2 is a plate-like conductor piece having a hole 21 into which the convex portion 12 is inserted. The convex portion 12 is inserted into the hole 21 of the bus bar 2 to radiate heat from the lower surface 22 of the bus bar 2 through the insulating member 3. Abutting on the upper surface 11 of the plate 1, the screw 4 is screwed into the screw hole 14 to fasten the bus bar 2 to the heat radiating plate 1. FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view taken along line AA in FIG. 1. As shown in FIG. 2, the convex portion 12 is a regular quadrangular prism, and the shape of the hole 21 of the bus bar 2 is such that the regular quadrangular prism 12 is inserted. Have a square.

  The heat radiating plate 1 is preferably made of Al or Cu having a high thermal conductivity. The height of the convex portion 12 is set lower than the total thickness of the insulating member 3 and the bus bar 2 stacked on the upper surface 11 of the heat radiating plate 1. Electrical insulation between the heat radiating plate 1 and the bus bar 2 is performed by the insulating member 3. As the insulating member 3, various resins can be used, but an insulating sheet such as a Teflon sheet or a silicone sheet or a heat radiating sheet may be used. Since Teflon has high insulating properties, it can be made thinner (for example, about 30 μm), and the thermal conductivity from the bus bar 2 to the heat radiating plate 1 is increased. Since silicone has a high thermal conductivity among resins (polymers), the thermal conductivity from the bus bar 2 to the heat radiating plate 1 is high even with a thickness of about 100 μm. In the case where the screw 4 is made of metal, it is necessary to interpose the insulating member 3 between the screw 4 and the bus bar 2. Further, as the screw 4, a screw having a head 41 larger than the outer dimension of the convex portion 21 is used. In addition, if the pressurization plate which has a washer effect | action is used like the following embodiment, it will not be this limitation.

  Next, how to attach the bus bar to the heat dissipation plate in this embodiment will be described. First, the insulating member 3 is disposed on the upper surface 11 of the heat radiating plate 1, and then the bus bar 2 is disposed by fitting the convex portion 12 into the hole 21 of the bus bar 2. Next, the screw 4 is screwed with a predetermined torque. Then, first, the lower part of the head 41 of the screw 4 comes into contact with the upper surface 23 of the bus bar 2 and a downward force is applied, the insulating member 3 is slightly compressed, and finally the lower part of the head 41 is the upper end surface 13 of the convex part 12. The fastening is completed when the torque for screwing the screw 4 and the rotational resistance of the screw due to the upward pressure applied to the head 41 of the screw 4 from the upper end surface 13 of the convex portion 12 is balanced.

  Even if the temperature of the bus bar 2 rises, it is below the creep temperature of the metal, so that the rotational resistance of the screw due to the upward pressure applied from the upper end surface 13 of the convex portion 12 to the head 41 of the screw 4 does not change, and the screw may loosen. Absent.

  Moreover, since the convex part 12 is a square pole and the shape of the hole 21 of the bus bar 2 is a quadrangle, the bus bar 2 is prevented from rotating.

(Embodiment 2)
In the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 3, the screw 4 in the first embodiment is made of metal, an insulating member 3 ′ is interposed between the screw 4 ′ and the bus bar 2, and the head 41 ′ and the convex portion of the screw 4 ′. The pressure plate 5 having a spring shape is inserted between the upper end surface 13 of 12. The pressurizing plate 5 is preferably made of spring steel and has a shape in which the peripheral edge is recessed downward in the free state, as indicated by a dotted line. Note that the insulating member 3 ′ goes around the hole 21 of the bus bar 2 into which the convex portion 12 is inserted, and also shares the insulation between the bus bar 2 and the convex portion 12. Insulating member 3 in the present embodiment is, for example, a heat dissipation sheet made of silicone, and insulating member 3 ′ is, for example, PBT resin. The insulating member 3 ′ is mainly for insulating between the screw 4 ′ and the bus bar 2, and does not need to have high thermal conductivity, and therefore may be a relatively inexpensive PBT resin or the like. In the case of a so-called insert bus bar in which the bus bar 2 is resin-molded, the insulating members 3 and 3 ′ can be omitted, so that the mounting operation is simplified.

  In the present embodiment, the pressure due to the torque for screwing the screw 4 ′ is applied to the wide area of the insulating member 3 ′ by the pressurizing plate 5. The adhesion between the upper surfaces 11 of the plates 1 is increased, the thermal conductivity from the bus bar to the heat radiating plate is further increased, and the cooling efficiency is further increased.

  Further, the insulating members 3 and 3 'are reduced in elastic force and reduced in thickness due to the creep phenomenon. However, in this embodiment, the pressure plate 5 having a spring shape is used. As described above, since the peripheral portion of the pressure plate 5 is recessed downward to pressurize the insulating member 3 ′, it is possible to prevent the pressure from being lowered due to creep.

(Embodiment 3)
In this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 4, the bus bar 2 in the second embodiment is used as an output terminal of the DC-DC converter 10, and the end of the holder 103 for fixing the transformer core 101 to the heat radiating plate 1 has a spring shape. The pressure plate 5 ′ is provided.

  The DC-DC converter 10 includes a transformer, a choke coil, a switching diode, and the like. FIG. 4 shows a transformer core 101, a resin mold 102 of a bus bar 2 wound around the core 101, and a holder for fixing the core 101. Only 103 is shown and the others are not shown.

  Normally, the holder 103 is made of spring steel. Therefore, if the end of the holder 103 is used as a pressure plate 5 'having a spring shape as in the present embodiment, it is necessary to prepare a pressure plate separately. The bus bar and the core can be fixed to the heat radiating plate at the same time. In addition, the DC-DC converter has a long wiring length in various coils and a large amount of heat generation due to copper loss due to the skin effect and proximity effect, but the core is cooled by the heat dissipation plate as in this embodiment. At the same time, since the bus bar is efficiently cooled by the heat radiating plate, the bus bar can be prevented from reaching a high temperature.

It is sectional drawing of the attachment structure to the heat sink of the bus bar in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is AA sectional drawing of FIG. It is sectional drawing of the attachment structure to the heat sink of the bus bar in Embodiment 2 of this invention. It is sectional drawing of the attachment structure to the heat sink of the bus bar in Embodiment 3 of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

1 .... Heat dissipation plate 2 .... Bus bar 3, 3 '... Insulating member 4, 4' ... Screw 5, 5 '... Pressure plate 10 ...・ Electronic circuit components (converters)
11 .. Upper surface 12 of heat radiating plate... Projection 13... Upper end surface 14... Screw hole 21.

Claims (8)

A metal heat dissipation plate,
An electronic circuit component having a bus bar as a heating element;
An insulating member for insulating between the bus bar and the heat dissipating plate;
A screw, and
The heat dissipation plate has a convex portion protruding upward on the upper surface, and a screw hole is formed downward from the upper end surface of the convex portion,
The bus bar is a plate-shaped conductor piece having a hole into which the convex portion is inserted,
The convex portion is inserted into the hole of the bus bar, the lower surface of the bus bar is brought into contact with the upper surface of the heat radiating plate through the insulating member, the screw is screwed into the screw hole, and the bus bar is A structure for mounting the bus bar to the heat dissipation plate, which is fastened to the heat dissipation plate.   The structure for mounting a bus bar to a heat radiating plate according to claim 1, wherein the insulating member is an insulating sheet or insulating grease. A metal heat dissipation plate,
An electronic circuit component having a bus bar as a heating element;
A screw, and
The heat dissipation plate has a convex portion protruding upward on the upper surface, and a screw hole is formed downward from the upper end surface of the convex portion,
The bus bar is a plate-like conductor piece having a hole into which the convex portion is inserted, and is resin-molded.
The protrusion is inserted into the hole of the bus bar, the lower surface of the bus bar is brought into contact with the upper surface of the heat radiating plate, the screw is screwed into the screw hole, and the bus bar is fastened to the heat radiating plate. The mounting structure of the bus bar to the heat dissipation plate characterized by   The structure for mounting the bus bar to the heat radiating plate according to claim 2, further comprising heat radiating grease between the resin molded bus bar and the heat radiating plate.   The mounting structure of the bus bar to the heat dissipation plate according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the convex portion is a prism.   The mounting structure of the bus bar to the heat radiating plate according to any one of claims 1 to 5, further comprising a pressure plate between the screw and the bus bar.   The structure for attaching the bus bar to the heat radiating plate according to claim 6, wherein the pressure plate has a spring shape.   The said electronic circuit component is a converter, The attachment structure to the heat sink of the bus bar of any one of Claim 1 thru | or 7 characterized by the above-mentioned.

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