Denso Corporation

Koji Asagara

Takeo Maekawa

Kazuya Takeuchi

Hirohito Matsui

Xiaolin Guo

Atsuo Ishizuka

Keiji Kondou

Takashi Satou

Tomoyuki Shinkai

Akihiro Ohi

Takafumi Matsumoto

A heat exchanger body that includes a circulation path through which a coolant is circulated and performs heat exchange between the coolant flowing through the circulation path and an electronic component; a circulation pump that supplies the coolant to the heat exchanger body; an accumulation determination unit that determines whether a foreign matter accumulation condition is fulfilled that is satisfied when foreign matter is expected to be accumulated in at least a part of the circulation path; and a process execution unit that in response to the foreign matter accumulation condition being satisfied, executes a foreign matter cleaning process of removing the foreign matter accumulated in the circulation path and cleaning the circulation path. In the foreign matter cleaning process, the process execution unit reduces an amount of coolant supplied from the circulation pump so that the coolant has a superheating degree in a nucleate boiling region.

Heat exchanger

In an electronic component cooling device, a cooler cools an electronic component, a coolant temperature acquisition unit acquires a temperature of a coolant, a coolant flow rate acquisition unit acquires the flow rate of the coolant, a heat loss estimation unit estimates a heat loss from the electronic component, and a loss threshold calculation unit calculates an upper limit threshold of the heat loss from the electronic component based on the coolant temperature and the coolant flow rate. A coolant flow rate control unit controls the flow rate of the coolant and is configured to, in response to an estimated heat loss which is the heat loss from the electronic component that has been estimated by the heat loss estimation unit exceeding the upper limit threshold, increase the flow rate of the coolant circulating through the cooler.

Electronic component cooling device

A rotating electric machine includes a rotating shaft, a rotor fixed on the rotating shaft, a stator, a housing, a liquid coolant and a flow direction regulating member. The stator is arranged so that a radially inner peripheral surface of the stator radially faces a radially outer peripheral surface of the rotor through an annular gap formed therebetween. The housing covers both axial ends of the stator and rotatably supports the rotating shaft. The liquid coolant is provided in an internal space formed in the housing to flow into at least part of the annular gap formed between the radially inner peripheral surface of the stator and the radially outer peripheral surface of the rotor. The flow direction regulating member axially faces an axial end face of the rotor through an axial gap formed therebetween and regulates the flow direction of the coolant by means of the axial gap.

Rotating electric machine

In a multi-gap rotating electric machine, a side stator coil is received in a side space formed in a housing to connect radially inner and radially outer stator coils across a rotor. A cooling oil flow adjustment member is provided to adjust flow of cooling oil in the side space. The adjustment member has cooling oil guide channels formed on an uneven surface thereof facing the side stator coil. When viewed along a central axis of a rotating shaft: on an upper apart of the uneven surface which is located above the central axis, the cooling oil guide channels spread from a reference line to both sides of the reference line while extending downward; and on a lower part of the uneven surface which is located below the central axis, the cooling oil guide channels converge on the reference line from both sides of the reference line while extending downward.

Multi-gap rotating electric machine with cooling oil guide channels for side stator coil

A rotating electric machine includes a rotor, a stator, a cooling device and a pair of cooling liquid collection tanks. The stator includes an annular stator core and a stator coil. The stator core is disposed radially outside the rotor so as to surround the rotor. The stator coil is mounted on the stator core so that a pair of coil ends of the stator coil protrude axially outward respectively from opposite axial end faces of the stator core. The cooling device is configured to supply cooling liquid to vertically upper parts of the coil ends of the stator coil. Each of the cooling liquid collection tanks is arranged to surround a vertically lower part of a corresponding one of the coil ends so as to collect and temporarily reserve therein the cooling liquid moved from the upper part to the lower part of the corresponding coil end.

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Koji Asagara