Valeo Equipements Electriques Moteur

Laurent Ledoux

Hugues Tempez

Henri-Charles Smaeghe

The brush-holder regulator comprises a casing made from an insulating material suitable for being mounted on a rear bearing of an alternator and forming a one-piece assembly with at least one housing suitable for containing brushes allowing an electrical connection to be established with an excitation winding of a rotor of the alternator, an electronic control component () connected electrically to a trace circuit () overmoulded in the casing, and a cooling radiator () for the control component. According to the invention, the control component comprises a back electrode () on which the radiator () is mounted, the back electrode () and the radiator () being in electrical and thermal contact and rigidly attached to a portion () of the trace circuit.

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Sorrus, France

Laurent Ledoux