Internal-combustion engines – Cooling – With cooling of additional parts or materials
Patent
1992-04-30
1993-10-19
Tolin, Gerald P.
Internal-combustion engines
Cooling
With cooling of additional parts or materials
105 49, 310 68D, 361697, 363141, 257713, H05K 720
Patent
active
052536130
ABSTRACT:
A plurality of high power semiconductor devices are connected in circuit with at least one electric traction motor for controlling electric power to the motor. The semiconductor devices are each thermally connected between a pair of generally hollow heat sinks adapted for passing cooling air therethrough for extracting heat therefrom. An anode terminal of the devices is coupled to one of the heat sinks of a pair and a cathode terminal of the devices is connected to the other heat sink of the pair. Each of the heat sinks are mounted in a cantilever fashion to a common air plenum forming one wall of an electrical circuit area of a vehicle. The distal ends of the heat sinks of a pair are coupled together by an air flow conduit thus forming a continuous air passage through the pair of heat sinks which begins and ends at the surface containing the air supply plenum. One end of one of the pair of heat sinks, preferably the heat sink coupled to the cathode terminal, is connected to an exhaust conduit. Cooling air is then directed into the end of the other heat sink, circulating through the one heat sink and out through the exhaust conduit. In this manner, the cooling air is held in a closed path extending into the electrical circuit area so that contaminants are not deposited on the electrical components.
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Bailey Ronald B.
Griebel Ronald F.
General Electric Company
Payne R. Thomas
Tolin Gerald P.
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