Abstract: A protective device protects an LC filter in a vehicle. The vehicle includes a first vehicle-mounted electric device and a second vehicle-mounted electric device. The first vehicle-mounted electric device includes a first power converter. The second vehicle-mounted electric device includes a second power converter and shares a power supply with the first vehicle-mounted electric device. The LC filter is arranged between the first power converter and the power supply. The LC filter is configured such that the resonance frequency band of the LC filter can be changed. The resonance frequency band of the LC filter is changed based on a ripple amount in a current flowing in the LC filter.

Abstract: An electric compressor includes a housing, a rotary shaft, a compression portion compressing refrigerant gas, a stator, a rotor, and guide members disposed between the housing and the stator and spaced away from each other in a peripheral direction of the rotary shaft. The guide members include an engagement portion projecting in a radially outward direction of the rotary shaft. The housing has in an inner peripheral surface thereof an engagement hole to receive the engagement portion. An electric compressor includes a housing, a rotary shaft, a compression portion compressing refrigerant gas, a stator, a rotor, and guide members disposed between the housing and the stator and spaced away from each other in a peripheral direction of the rotary shaft. An engagement projection is formed projecting radially inwardly from the inner peripheral surface of the housing. The guide members include an engagement hole to receive the engagement projection.

Abstract: An electric compressor includes a cylindrical housing, a rotary shaft accommodated and rotatably supported in the housing, a compression portion compressing refrigerant gas by rotation of the rotary shaft, a stator accommodated in the housing and fixed to the housing, a rotor accommodated in the housing and fixed on the rotary shaft, and a plurality of guide members disposed between the inner peripheral surface of the housing and an outer peripheral surface of a stator core of the stator. A plurality of recesses is recessed in a radial direction of the rotary shaft on the outer peripheral surface of the stator core of the stator and spaced apart from each other in a peripheral direction of the rotary shaft. The guide members are fitted in the respective recesses with a part of the guide members projecting radially outward beyond the outer peripheral surface of the stator core.

Abstract: A motor-driven fluid machine has three motor wires. The innermost one of the three motor wires in the radial direction of a rotary shaft on a specific section of an outer end portion of a coil end is defined as a first motor wire. The first motor wire has a first extension, which extends from an inner side toward an outer side in the radial direction of the rotary shaft at a position between the specific section and a downstream side in the extending direction of the motor wires, and a second extension, which is continuous from the first extension and extends from the outer side toward the inner side in the radial direction of the rotary shaft to be connected to a corresponding conductive member.

Abstract: A compressor equipped with an electric motor having a stator including a stator core, coils, and a string. The stator core is formed of laminated core plates and has crimped portions in boundaries between a yoke and bases of teeth. The crimped portions are spaced at equal intervals in a circumferential direction of the stator core. Coil ends are laced by the string in such a way that the string is not passed through teeth spaces having the crimped portions disposed outward thereof in a radial direction of the stator core, but passed through the teeth spaces that are located adjacently on opposite sides of each of the teeth spaces having the crimped portions disposed radially outward thereof and also passed through at least one of any two adjacent of the teeth spaces.

Abstract: There is provided a vehicular electric compressor capable of discharging electric charges of a capacitor surely and quickly in the event of an impact. The vehicular electric compressor includes: a compressing unit; an electric motor for rotating the compressing unit; and a driving circuit for driving the electric motor. The driving circuit includes: a capacitor; a circuit board provided with an electrically discharging circuit for discharging electric charges accumulated in the capacitor; and a positive electrode interconnection and a negative electrode interconnection configured to electrically connect the capacitor and the circuit board to each other.

Abstract: An electric compressor includes a compression mechanism having a movable member, an electric motor including a rotary shaft, a shaft support member and a housing. The rotary shaft includes a shaft body and an eccentric pin. The electric motor includes a stator including a stator core and a coil, and a rotor that includes a rotor core. The coil has a first coil end located between the stator core and the compression mechanism and a second coil end. The rotor core has a first hole portion, a plurality of second hole portions, and a plurality of third hole portions. The balance weights include a first balance weight and at least part of the first balance weight is inserted in the third hole portion. At least part of the shaft support member faces an inner periphery of the first coil end and the first balance weight.

Abstract: A first accommodation chamber accommodating therein an inverter unit with a built-in inverter circuit and a second accommodation chamber accommodating therein a filter unit with a built-in filter circuit are formed individually in different positions of a housing of a motor-driven compressor for a vehicle. The input terminals and the output terminals of the inverter unit and of the filter unit are all arranged so as to extend in the same direction.

Abstract: A motor-driven compressor includes an electric motor including a stator and a rotor, wherein the stator includes a stator core and a coil end projecting from the stator core, a rotation shaft, a compression unit, a motor driving circuit, a housing accommodating the compression unit, the electric motor, and the motor driving circuit sequentially arranged in an axial direction of the rotation shaft, a conductor configured to electrically connect the motor driving circuit to the electric motor, a lead extending from the coil end, a connection terminal electrically connecting the conductor to the lead, and a cluster block accommodating the connection terminal. The cluster block is arranged in the housing. The cluster block is coupled to the stator with at least part of the cluster block located inward from the coil end in a radial direction of the rotation shaft.

Abstract: A stator core includes an insertion hole that has an opening in an outer peripheral surface of the stator core and a bent portion in the stator core. A cluster block includes an insertion piece, which is inserted into the insertion hole via the cornered portion. The cluster block is attached to the stator core by engaging the insertion piece with the insertion hole.

Abstract: A motor-driven compressor is provided that includes a housing made of a metal material, a compression portion, an electric motor, a cover made of a metal material, a motor drive circuit accommodated in an accommodation space defined by the housing and the cover, an elastic sealing member located between the housing and the cover, and an extended portion provided in at least one of the housing and the cover. The compression portion and the electric motor are accommodated in the housing. The cover is attached to the housing. The motor driver circuit drives the electric motor. The extended portion extends in a direction toward an opposing one of the housing and the cover and is arranged inside the sealing member. The extended portion includes an outer peripheral surface. The sealing member is arranged to be in close contact with the outer peripheral surface of the extended portion.

Abstract: An electric compressor includes a compression part, a motor that drives the compression part, a cylindrical housing that accommodates therein the compression part and the motor, a supporting member, and a first vibration damper. The supporting member supports the housing and is configured to be fixed to a target to which the compressor is attached. The first vibration damper is disposed between the housing and the supporting member so as to keep the housing free from contact with the supporting member and the target. The first vibration damper has therein a hollow enclosed space.

Abstract: A motor-driven compressor includes a housing assembly, a compression mechanism, an electric motor, a discharge port, an outlet, a discharge passage, discharge valve and a valve device. The compression mechanism is accommodated in the housing assembly. The electric motor drives the compression mechanism. The discharge chamber is formed in the housing assembly. The discharge port is formed in the housing assembly for communication between the discharge chamber and the compression mechanism. The outlet is formed in the housing assembly for communication with an external circuit. The discharge passage is formed in the housing assembly for communication between the discharge chamber and the outlet. The discharge valve is disposed in the discharge chamber for opening and closing the discharge port. The valve device is configured to adjust an opening of the discharge passage.

Abstract: A motor-driven compressor includes a compression unit, an electric motor, a motor drive circuit, a housing, and a first end plate. The electric motor includes a rotation shaft, a rotor provided with a rotor core, and a stator. The stator includes a state core and a coil. The coil includes first and second coil ends. The rotor core includes a refrigerant passage having a first opening that opens in the compression unit side. The first opening includes a first radially outer region. First and second regions in the housing are in communication through the refrigerant passage. The first end plate includes a first communication port arranged on a first region side end of the rotor core. The first region and the refrigerant passage are in communication through the first opening and first communication port. The first radially outer region is covered by the first end plate.

Abstract: A motor-driven compressor includes a compression unit having a compression chamber, a rotation shaft, an electric motor having a coil, a motor driving circuit, a housing, and a shaft support. The coil includes a first coil end, which is relatively close to the motor driving circuit, and a second coil end, which is relatively close to the compression unit. The housing includes a first area and a second area. A refrigerant passage communicates the first area with the second area. The shaft support includes a guide wall that guides the refrigerant to flow along the radial outer surface of the second coil end. The refrigerant guided by the guide wall is drawn into the compression chamber from the second area through a first suction passage. The first suction passage and the refrigerant passage are arranged at opposite sides of the rotation shaft.

Abstract: An electric compressor includes a housing, an electric motor, a compression mechanism, and a resin molding. The electric motor includes a coil having coil ends projecting from each of two end surfaces of the stator. Refrigerant flows through the housing that accommodates the electric motor. The resin molding covers each coil end and includes an opening that exposes part of the coil end to the interior of the housing.

Abstract: There is provided a vehicular electric compressor capable of discharging electric charges of a capacitor surely and quickly in the event of an impact. The vehicular electric compressor includes: a compressing unit; an electric motor for rotating the compressing unit; and a driving circuit for driving the electric motor. The driving circuit includes: a capacitor; a circuit board provided with an electrically discharging circuit for discharging electric charges accumulated in the capacitor; and a positive electrode interconnection and a negative electrode interconnection configured to electrically connect the capacitor and the circuit board to each other.

Abstract: An electric motor for a motor-driven compressor is provided. The electric motor includes a stator and a rotor. The stator is fixed to a housing. The rotor is arranged outward of the stator. The rotor is mounted on a rotary shaft to rotate integrally with the rotary shaft. The stator includes slots and a stator coil wound about the slots. The rotor includes a rotary support and a magnet. The rotary support is fixed to the rotary shaft to rotate integrally with the rotary shaft. The magnet is supported by the rotary support. The arrangement of the magnetic poles of the magnet in the circumferential direction is a Halbach array.

Abstract: A compressor equipped with an electric motor having a stator including a stator core, coils, and a string. The stator core is formed of laminated core plates and has crimped portions in boundaries between a yoke and bases of teeth. The crimped portions are spaced at equal intervals in a circumferential direction of the stator core. Coil ends are laced by the string in such a way that the string is not passed through teeth spaces having the crimped portions disposed outward thereof in a radial direction of the stator core, but passed through the teeth spaces that are located adjacently on opposite sides of each of the teeth spaces having the crimped portions disposed radially outward thereof and also passed through at least one of any two adjacent of the teeth spaces.

Abstract: An outer edge of a first through hole near an outer periphery of a first core plate is closer to a permanent magnet than an outer edge of a second through hole near an outer periphery of a second core plate. Further, a second bridge length is less than a first bridge length.