Audi Ag

Hitachi Energy Ltd

Hitachi Energy Switzerland Ag

Benjamin Söhnle

Andreas Apelsmeier

Thomas Gradinger

Daniele Torresin

Daniel Ruppert

Stephan Brüske

Paul Böckenhoff

Tobias Enzinger

Philipp Eberhart

Christoph Meier

Sebastian Witt

Mingyuan Li

A method for producing a pulse inverter comprising a module with electronic components, a contact bar sticking out from a side of the module, a current measuring device arranged on the contact bar, and a control board arranged on the module with a driver circuit, wherein the driver circuit makes contact with the module across control contacting pins of the module and with the current measuring device across measurement contacting pins of the current measuring device, wherein the current measuring device is movably attached to the contact bar, after which the control board is positioned such that the control contacting pins are led through control contact openings of the control board and the current measuring device is displaced such that the measurement contacting pins are led through measurement contact openings of the control board, after which the current measuring device is secured to the contact bar and/or the control board.

Method for producing a pulse inverter, current measuring device for a pulse inverter, pulse inverter and motor vehicle

A power converter including a semiconductor module having a base plate and a cooling housing. The cooling housing includes a receptacle plate and a cover. The receptacle plate has an opening. The receptacle plate is connected to the base plate of the semiconductor module around the opening. The cover is connected to the receptacle plate along a closure path around the opening, and either the receptacle plate or the cover is formed as a stamped or deep-drawn plate.

Direct cooling of a power converter by using a stamped plate

Power electronics arrangement including a printed circuit board and at least one power module fastened on the printed circuit board, which has one or more electronic components potted by a potting compound. At least one module connecting point of the power module is electrically contacted with at least one board connecting point of the printed circuit board by an electrically conductive pin. A base section of the pin is fastened on the module connecting point or on the board connecting point, and the end of the pin opposite to the base section is pressed in the installation position into a contacting opening assigned or assignable to the respective other connecting point.

Power electronics unit comprising a circuit board and a power module, method for producing a power electronics unit, motor vehicle comprising a power electronics unit

Current busbars may be made of copper and have at least one nominal bending point which has been locally heated and thereby softened prior to being installed. Such components may be used in power electronic circuits, especially an inverter, in fully electrical and partially electrical (hybrid) vehicles.

Power electronic circuit and method for its fabrication

A protection device for a pulse inverter is provided and is configured to be detachably arranged on an opening of an open housing part of the pulse inverter, wherein the protection device is configured to protect from dirt, mechanical impact and/or electrostatic charging, at least one inner element of the pulse inverter, in particular an electrical system and/or an electronic system, which is arranged in the open housing part. Furthermore, a pulse inverter is provided comprising a housing, as well as an e-machine with a pulse inverter.

Protection device for a pulse inverter

Motor vehicle comprising an electric motor for driving the motor vehicle and a power converter device for supplying an alternating current to the electric motor, the power converter device having a cooling device, and the cooling device comprising at least one coolant connection, which is fluidically connected to a coolant port of the electric motor to form a common cooling circuit.

Motor vehicle and power converter device for a motor vehicle

A drive device, in particular for a motor vehicle, including an electric motor and an inverter, wherein the electric motor includes at least one electrically conductive motor contact element for electrically contacting a respective electrically conductive inverter contact element of the inverter, wherein the motor contact element is mounted directly or via a motor sealing means on a motor housing component of a motor housing of the electric motor and the inverter contact element is mounted directly or via an inverter sealing means on an inverter housing component of an inverter housing of the inverter, wherein the motor contact element and the inverter contact element are mechanically fastened to one another by a fastening means, wherein the fastening means and a respective housing-external section of the motor contact element and the inverter contact element are accommodated in a liquid-tight receptacle chamber.

Drive device comprising an electric motor and an inverter and motor vehicle

An electronics device with at least one component to be cooled, a cooling element for cooling the component to be cooled, at least one power supply line, and a respective current sensor for recording a current strength of a current flowing through the respective power supply line, wherein the cooling element has a recess, in which the current sensor engages or in which the current sensor is arranged.

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Ingolstadt, Germany

Benjamin Söhnle