Abstract:
An EPU includes a motor device, an inverter device, a unit housing, and a cooling device. The motor device includes a motor and a motor housing. The inverter device includes an inverter and an inverter housing. The motor and the inverter are accommodated in the unit housing. The cooling device includes a refrigerant passage and a refrigerant pump. The refrigerant pump causes the refrigerant to flow to circulate through the refrigerant passage. The unit housing includes a refrigerant fin to dissipate heat of the refrigerant to an outside. The refrigerant fin is provided on a unit outer surface.
Abstract:
A power transducer failure detection device detects a failure on a power transducer, making a power transducer control device stop driving the power transducer. A first switching control device turns off a first power supply relay of a power supply source switching device and turns on a second power supply relay of the power supply source switching device. While the power transducer stops driving, a motor may rotate due to an external force to generate a regenerative voltage. The regenerative voltage is then regenerated in a battery through a route from the power transducer via the second power supply relay being turned on and a parasitic diode of the first power supply relay. This can protect elements such as switching elements and a smoothing capacitor of the power transducer against a regenerative voltage and prevent the elements from being destroyed or reducing the useful life due to overvoltage.
Abstract:
A lock device can be shifted between a locked state and an unlocked state. The lock device includes a lock pin, a solenoid, and a pressing unit. The lock pin is movable between a locked position where a propeller is locked and an unlocked position where the propeller is not locked. The pressing unit presses the lock pin to the locked position by a mechanical pressing force. The solenoid includes a solenoid coil and a plunger. When the solenoid coil is energized, the plunger moves the lock pin to the unlocked position against the mechanical pressing force.
Abstract:
A first inverter circuit and a second inverter circuit are provided for a first winding set and a second winding set of a motor, respectively, and switch over power supply to the winding sets. A control unit controls operations of the inverter circuits. The control unit detects abnormality in the inverter circuits. The control unit calculates a first value with respect to each drive system based on phase currents of the inverter circuit in each system, calculates a second value based on two values selected from a plurality of first values calculated for each drive system, and detects abnormality of the inverter circuits, which corresponds to the selected first value, when the second value deviates from a predetermined range.
Abstract:
Motor fins are provided to a motor outer peripheral surface of a motor housing. Inverter fins are provided to an inverter outer peripheral surface of an inverter housing. A fin cover covers the motor fins and the inverter fins from a radially outward direction. A cover flow passage is formed between the fin cover and the motor outer peripheral surface and between the fin cover and an inverter outer peripheral surface. The cover flow passage includes a first flow passage and a second flow passage, the motor fins being provided in the first flow passage, the inverter fins being provided in the second flow passage. In the second flow passage, a second air flow having flowed into a second inflow port reaches the inverter fins without passing through the first flow passage.