EP3170376A1

EP3170376A1 - Electric supercharging compressor

Info

Publication number: EP3170376A1
Application number: EP15759501.8A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Fabien Guerin; Thierry CANCIANI; Johnny DUARTE
Original assignee: Valeo Equipements Electriques Moteur SAS
Current assignee: Valeo Equipements Electriques Moteur SAS
Priority date: 2014-07-15
Filing date: 2015-07-09
Publication date: 2017-05-24
Also published as: EP3170375A1; FR3024011A1; WO2016009133A1; EP3170375B1; FR3024011B1; WO2016009134A1

Abstract

The invention relates to an electric supercharging compressor comprising: a rotary electric machine (200) intended to drive the compressor, a power supply device intended to power the rotary electric machine (200) and configured to be mounted on a housing (50) of the compressor, said power supply device comprising at least one electronic component (30), said electronic component (30) being mounted on one side of the power supply device so that the electronic component is positioned above the rotary electric machine (200).

Description

Electric supercharger

The present invention relates to a device for supplying an electric supercharger.

Ecological considerations, including the fight against global warming by reducing C0 ₂ emissions, have led OEMs to offer automotive manufacturers electric superchargers that improve the dynamic response of low-displacement internal combustion engines. low regime.

Unlike conventional superchargers driven by exhaust gases, the electric supercharger, ie powered by an electric motor, has an instantaneous response time, and improves engine torque at low speeds. and acceleration.

This system considerably reduces the engine capacity of the combustion engines, thus reducing fuel consumption.

In the case of a diesel engine, the lag time of a gas supercharger is also responsible for the emission of particles when, in a phase of acceleration at low speeds, the injection system tries to provide the requested power by injecting a surplus of fuel.

To overcome this drawback, the company VALEO SYSTEMES DE CONTROLE MOTEUR proposes in its international patent application WO 2013/045821 the implementation of an electric supercharger to assist the gas turbocharger at the moment of depression of the pedal. 'accelerator.

Given the power levels required, the converters used in these applications are no longer designed as modules integrating electronic components on epoxy printed circuits (type FR4), but use the technology of insulated metal substrates (SMI ) which allows better heat dissipation of the power components.

The elements of electrical energy storage - chokes or capacitors - implemented in power converters are so-called "through" components. As were the connectors, these through components are difficult to weld on a process insulated metal substrate and can not be integrated on an insulated metal substrate such as on an epoxy circuit board, as this would lead to short-term risks. -circuit. These inductors and / or capacitors of the power converters known from the state of technology are therefore placed next to the insulated metal substrate and connected to the tracks thereof by connection traces (formed in die-cut copper sheet) overmolded. in an intermediate room.

However, in some embodiments of such a system, the area allocated for the electronics is limited in a defined diameter. Placing the power components on the side of the board becomes difficult.

The present invention aims to overcome the disadvantages mentioned above, in particular by providing a power supply device for an electric supercharger. For this purpose, the subject of the present invention is a power supply device, in particular an AC direct current power converter, said power supply device including an electronic power card made on an isolated metal substrate, comprising:

a metal support forming a rear face of said isolated metal substrate, and

an insulating layer covering the metal support, forming a front face of said isolated metal substrate,

wherein at least one component is mounted on the back side of the insulated metal substrate.

Advantageously, the arrangement of the power supply device according to the invention overcomes the problem of placing components on a limited surface, when the routing of the electronic card restricts the possible locations, thus leaving greater freedom of placement. This also allows the placement of components under the insulated metal substrate and soldering them on said insulated metal substrate without risk of short circuit. The power supply device of an electric supercharger according to the invention may also comprise one or more of the following characteristics, considered individually or in any technically possible combination:

the insulated metal substrate comprises electrical connection tracks, said tracks being disposed on the insulating layer of said insulated metal substrate and connecting electronic components disposed on the front face of the insulated metal substrate; and or

the component is electrically connected to at least one of the electrical connection tracks; and or

- The component comprises plugs, said plugs through the insulated metal substrate through a hole opening into said insulated metal substrate; and or

the at least one component mounted on the rear face of the insulated metal substrate is soldered to at least one electrical connection track by means of an intermediate piece placed on the front face of said insulated metal substrate and making it possible to interface between said at least one electrical connection track and a plug of the at least one component; and or

the intermediate piece is an assembly of two sets of electrical connection bars separated by a plastic part; and or

the material of the plastic part is chosen in such a way that the plastic part withstands refusal oven temperatures; and or

- The end of at least one bar is forked to accommodate the plugs of the component; and or

the intermediate piece is a welding cap engaged by an opening on at least one of the plugs of the at least one component; and or

said welding cap is of substantially parallelepipedal shape; and or

said solder cap comprises a lower portion having a flange extending in the plane of said insulated metal substrate; and or

said solder cap comprises a wall having at least one fold; and or

- The electrical connection tracks are copper tracks.

The invention also relates to an electric supercharger comprising an AC direct current power converter according to the invention.

The invention also relates to an electric supercharger comprising:

a rotating electric machine for driving the compressor, a supply device for supplying the rotating electrical machine and configured to be mounted on a compressor housing, said supply device comprising at least one electronic component,

said electronic component being mounted on one side of the feeder so that the electronic component is positioned above the rotating electrical machine.

The electric supercharger according to this invention may comprise an electronic device having any of the characteristics of the feed device according to the invention described above.

This electric supercharger may also include one or more of the following features, considered individually or in any technically feasible combination:

the electronic component is received in a housing of the compressor housing (50); thus the component can be protected by the walls of the housing;

the housing has a shape substantially adjusted to the size of the electronic component; thus the size of the compressor housing is limited;

the compressor comprises glue at the bottom of the housing receiving the electronic component so as to limit a vibration of the electronic component;

- The housing is formed in a wall defining at least in part a cooling circuit of the supercharger; thus the electronic component can be cooled by the cooling circuit;

said electronic component is received in a portion of the housing receiving the rotating electrical machine and / or a compression member of the compressor; the compression member is for example a turbine;

the power supply device comprises an electronic power card made on an insulated metal substrate comprising:

a metal support forming a rear face of said isolated metal substrate, and

said electronic component being mounted on the rear face of the insulated metal substrate;

the insulated metal substrate comprises at least one electrical connection track disposed on the insulating layer of said insulated metal substrate, the electronic component being electrically connected to the electrical connection track; - In particular, the component comprises a plurality of plugs, said plugs through the insulated metal substrate through the hole opening into said insulated metal substrate;

in particular, said track is disposed on the insulating layer of said insulated metal substrate; in particular, the insulated metal substrate comprises a plurality of electrical connection tracks, and / or the electrical connection track connects electronic components disposed on the front face of the insulated metal substrate;

the electrical connection track is a copper track; in particular, the insulated metal substrate comprises several electrical connection tracks, and said tracks are copper tracks;

- The power electronic card is intended to bear against the housing, in particular with its rear face;

- In particular, the electronic component is positioned above the rotating electrical machine when the supply device is mounted on the compressor housing;

- The electronic component is vis-à-vis radially with the rotating electrical machine, in particular with respect to a longitudinal direction of the electric machine, or with respect to a rotating shaft of the rotating electrical machine;

- The electronic component is vis-à-vis radially with a bearing of the rotation shaft;

- The electronic component is vis-à-vis radially with a portion of the rotation shaft of the electric machine;

the power supply device is a DC direct current power converter;

the electronic component is a capacitor, in particular a filtering capacitor for filtering a voltage intended for the electric machine.

The compressor according to the invention has a reduced overall width or length.

The invention will be better understood in the light of the following description which is given for information only and which is not intended to limit said invention, accompanied by the figures below:

FIG. 1 is an exploded view of an electric supercharger according to the invention, FIG. 2 illustrates the difficulty of welding a through-type electronic element on an insulated metal substrate by a conventional welding method,

FIG. 3 represents a method for connecting the capacitances by block deporting according to a device of the prior art,

FIG. 4 represents an embodiment of an intermediate piece making it possible to interface the routing of the insulated metal substrate with a through component,

FIG. 5 shows the contact between the forks of an intermediate part and the plugs of a through component,

FIG. 6 represents a partial sectional view of an electric supercharger,

FIG. 7 represents a view from above of the power supply device of an electric supercharger,

FIG. 8 shows in perspective a welding cap of the type used for welding the "through" type electronic elements,

FIG. 9a shows a variant of the welding cap shown in FIG. 8,

FIG. 9b shows the blank used for folding the welding cap as shown in FIG. 9a,

FIG. 10a illustrates the welding process using the welding cap shown in FIG. 8,

Figure 10b illustrates the welding process using the welding cap shown in Figure 9a.

An example of a supercharger supercharger 100 for a motor supercharging system of a heat engine is shown in Figure 1. As shown in Figure 1, the supercharger 100 comprises a rotary electric machine 200 and a turbine 300 coupled to said rotating electrical machine 200.

As illustrated in FIG. 1, the rotary electrical machine 200 comprises an electric motor 52, the phases of which are connected, for example via a connection device 240 to an electrical power card 54. All these elements can be arranged at the same time. inside a housing 50 closed by a cover 270. As already mentioned in the preamble, it is not possible to weld electronic elements whose plugs pass through an insulated metal substrate directly on it in the same way as on an FR4 type epoxy printed circuit board.

Figure 2 shows the plug 44 of a through component placed on the rear face of an insulated metal substrate 11 welded to the front face. Generally, the insulated metal substrate 11 is composed of three or more layers: the upper layer 41 is copper, the intermediate layer 42 is an insulator and the lower layer 43 is aluminum. The through hole 46 provided to let the plug 44 to be welded in an insulated metal substrate 11 must be wider to prevent the plug 44 from coming into contact with the aluminum layer 43 at the base of the insulated metal substrate 11. However , even if contact between the plug 44 and the aluminum layer 43 is avoided, a conventional solder 45 could migrate by capillarity of the copper layer 41 to the aluminum layer 43, thus creating a short circuit . It is therefore necessary to deport the weld for "through" type components.

FIG. 3 presents a method for interfacing the insulated metal substrate 11 and the capacitor (s) 30 according to a device of the prior art, in which the capacitance (s) 30 are deported in one block. In the case where the routing of the insulated metal substrate 11 and the bulk does not allow to place the capacitors 30 directly above, one method is to deport the components to place them outside the power card 54. The design such a piece requires that the positive and negative busbars 14a, 14b are parallelized over the longest possible distance, to meet the constraints of electromagnetic compatibility and filtering.

However, shifting the capacitances implies that the busbars 14a, 14b are longer to connect the track of the insulated metal substrate 11 to the relevant components. The constraints of parallelization lead to an additional cost due to the increase of material (copper) necessary for the realization of busbars 14a, 14b, as well as additional heating from the self-heating busbars 14a, 14b.

This is why the device of the invention relates to an intermediate piece 10 for electrically connecting the capacitors 30 placed on the rear face of the insulated metal substrate 11, and whose plugs of said capacitors 30 pass through said insulated metal substrate 11 by the intermediate through holes. This intermediate piece 10 therefore aims to reduce (or eliminate) the constraints and disadvantages mentioned above. FIG. 4 shows an intermediate piece 10 according to the invention making it possible to interface the routing of the insulated metal substrate 11 with a capacitor 30. The intermediate piece 10 is composed of two sets of bars 14a, 14b (one positive , the other negative) assembled around a plastic part 12. These sets of bars 14a, 14b can be fixed to the plastic part 12 by snap-fastening for example, or be directly overmolded in the plastic part 12. The plastic part 12 may comprise one or more indexing pins 18a, 18b, oriented downwards from the intermediate piece 10 and will join corresponding holes on the insulated metal substrate 11. At one end of the busbars 14a, 14b are located flat zones 16a, 16b allowing contact with the insulated metal substrate 11. These flat zones 16a and 16b can form support zones which, depending on the thickness, make it possible to raise the intermediate piece 10. Increasing the intermediate piece 10 makes it possible to make the electrical contacts at a controlled distance from the plane of the insulated metal substrate 11. The risks of short-circuiting with the substrate are thus avoided, and the ends of the intermediate piece are more accessible. The intermediate piece 10 is thus deposited on the insulated metal substrate 11 during the so-called rejection process like any other surface-mounted component, thus making it possible to make the electrical connection between the intermediate piece 10 and the insulated metal substrate 11. The other end busbars 14a, 14b is fork-shaped 20a, 20b, to provide the electrical connection with the corresponding plug of the capacitor 30. This electrical connection can be done by electrical crimping, or by welding, but is not limited to to a unique mode of realization.

FIG. 5 shows the forks 20a, 20b of the intermediate part 10 interacting with the plugs 32a, 32b of the capacitor 30. The shape of the plugs 32a, 32b of a capacitor 30 may be different from that shown in FIG. connection between the plugs 32a, 32b of the capacitor 30 and the forks 20a, 20b of the intermediate part 10 can be made by electrical crimping, or by welding, and is not limited to a single embodiment.

The structure of the assembly of the electric supercharger 100 and its housing 50 are adapted to allow the positioning of the capacitors 30 in the rear face of the insulated metal substrate 1 1 and above the electric motor 52 without impacting the length and the total width of the assembly, as shown in Figure 6. In this sectional diagram of the lower assembly of the electric supercharger, the intermediate part 10 deposited on the insulated metal substrate 11 is in contact with the pins 32a, 32b of a capacitance 30. The flat zones 16a, 16b at the end of the busbars 14a, 14b are in contact with the insulated metal substrate 11 enable the capacitances 30 to be connected electrically to the routing of the insulated metal substrate 11.

A view from above of the electrical power card 54 in FIG. 7 shows the capacitances 30 interacting with the intermediate parts 10 on the insulated metal substrate 11. The view from above makes it possible to account for the slight lateral overshoot of the capacitors 30. relative to the diameter of the insulated metal substrate 11. However, in the invention as shown, the area allocated for the power card 54 is a 110mm diameter disk. The rear-facing placement of the capacitors 30 makes it possible to respond to this constraint.

FIG. 8 shows an intermediate piece 10 according to one embodiment, when the copper strip passes close, more particularly around, the through hole 46 of the insulated metal substrate 11. This intermediate piece 10 according to one embodiment of the invention takes the form of a welding cap 70, thus making it possible to interface the insulated metal substrate 11 with the capacity 30 to be welded.

As shown in FIG. 8, the welding cap 70 has a parallelepipedal shape. It comprises an upper face 75 having an opening 76 for receiving a connecting element, such as a plug, and four adjacent walls 77 whose lower edges 78 are intended to be welded on the track 41 of the insulated metal substrate 11 as the schematically shows Figure 10a.

The solder cap 70 is welded to the insulated metal substrate 11 in the same manner as a CMS type electronic component, i.e. it is deposited on the insulated metal substrate 11, provided with solder paste after serigraphy, by a machine of the "pick'n place" type, and that it is then passed through an oven of refusals to form a solder between the lower edges and the track.

Specific shapes are defined to facilitate the brazing of the solder cap 70 on the insulated metal substrate 1 1, such as an addition of a flange 80 on a lower portion of the solder cap 70, as shown in FIG. to increase the wet surface by the solder as shown in Figure 10b. Areas of flexibility, formed by at least one fold in the walls, also advantageously allow differential expansion of the connection elements of the capacitance. A solder cap 70, of simple general shape, parallelepipedal or cubic, is easily made by folding a blank, obtained by punching a metal sheet, such as that shown schematically in Figure 9b. In this way, the flange and the zones of flexibility are also easily realized. Since the solder caps 70 have been welded to the insulated metal substrate 11 facing through holes 44 made in the insulated metal substrate 11 at the locations intended to receive the capacitors 30, these capacitors 30 are put in place under the insulated metal substrate 11. engaging their plugs 32 in these through holes 46, and in the opening 76 weld caps 70. As shown in Figures 10a and 10b, the width of these through holes 46 is much greater than the diameter of the connecting pin for avoid any risk of a short circuit between the connection plug and the insulated metal substrate 11.

The invention is not limited to the particular embodiments which have been described above, many variants being conceivable without departing from the scope defined by the appended claims.

In particular, the electronic component 30 is positioned above the rotary electrical machine 200 when the converter is mounted on the housing 50 of the electric supercharger. In other words, in an example similar to that illustrated in FIG. 6, the electronic component 30 covers at least part of the electric machine 200, in particular the electric motor 52, in particular in a transverse direction of the machine 200 or the motor 52. In particular, this direction is transverse to the rotation shaft of the machine 200. The rotation shaft (not shown) is positioned in the motor 52 along the left edge of the motor 52 as shown in FIG.

Thus, the electronic component 30 can be mounted on the rear face of the power electronic board 54 so as to be vis-à-vis radially relative to the motor 52 when the converter is mounted on the housing 50 of the compressor. In an example similar to that illustrated in FIG. 6, the electronic component 30 is vis-à-vis radially with the rotation shaft of the rotating electrical machine 200. The electronic component 30 can also be in facing relation radially. with a bearing of the rotation shaft positioned against the left edge of the housing portion 50 illustrated in FIG. 6.

Claims

An electric supercharger comprising:

a rotary electric machine (200) for driving the compressor,

a supply device for supplying the rotary electrical machine (200) and configured to be mounted on a housing (50) of the compressor, said supply device comprising at least one electronic component (30), said electronic component (30) ) being mounted on one side of the feeder so that the electronic component is positioned above the rotating electrical machine (200).

The compressor of claim 1, wherein the electronic component (30) is received in a housing of the compressor housing (50).

3. The compressor of claim 2, wherein the housing has a shape substantially adjusted to the size of the electronic component (30).

4. Compressor according to claims 2 or 3, comprising glue at the bottom of the housing receiving the electronic component (30) so as to limit a vibration of the electronic component (30).

5. Compressor according to one of claims 2 to 4, wherein the housing is formed in a wall defining at least in part a cooling circuit of the supercharger.

6. Compressor according to one of the preceding claims, wherein said electronic component (30) is received in a portion of the housing (50) receiving the rotary electrical machine (200) and / or a compression member (300) of the compressor.

7. Compressor according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the power supply device comprises a power electronic board (54) made on an insulated metal substrate (11) comprising: a metal support forming a rear face of said isolated metal substrate

(11), and

an insulating layer covering the metal support, forming a front face of said insulated metal substrate (11),

said electronic component (30) being mounted on the rear face of the insulated metal substrate.

The compressor according to claim 7, wherein the insulated metal substrate (11) comprises at least one electrical connecting track disposed on the insulating layer of said insulated metal substrate (11), the electronic component (30) being electrically connected to the electrical connection track.

9. Electric supercharger according to claims 7 or 8, wherein the power electronic board (54) is intended to bear against the housing (50), in particular with its rear face.

10. The compressor according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the electronic component (30) is vis-à-vis radially with the rotating electrical machine (200).

11. Compressor according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the electronic component (30) is vis-à-vis radially with a bearing of the rotation shaft.

12. Compressor according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the electronic component (30) is vis-à-vis radially with a portion of the rotation shaft of the electric machine.

13. Compressor according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the supply device is a direct current AC power converter.

14. The compressor according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the electronic component (30) is a capacitor, in particular a filter capacitor for filtering a voltage for the electric machine.