Abstract: To provide an electric motor control system and an electric power steering apparatus that torque of the electric motor can be increased for ensuring of steering performance even at the time of abnormality occurrence. The controller is provided with 2 sets of control systems which control a supply current to each set of the windings. When abnormality occurs in one set of the windings and the control system, the electric motor control system sets 0 to supply current to all phase or partial phase windings of abnormality occurrence set, and increase supply current to normal set of the windings up to an irreversible current that increase an irreversible demagnetizing factor of the permanent magnet more than the normal time.

Abstract: An electronic controlling apparatus includes a circuit board in which conductor layers and insulating layers are disposed alternately, thicknesses of an upper portion outer conductor layer that is disposed on a first surface of the circuit board and a lower portion outer conductor layer that is disposed on a second surface of the circuit board are identical and have greatest thickness among the conductor layers, or thicknesses of a first outermost position inner conductor layer and a second outermost position inner conductor layer that are positioned at two end portions inside the circuit board are identical and have greatest thickness among the conductor layers, and the conductor layers are disposed symmetrically so as to have a central plane in a thickness direction of the circuit board as a plane of symmetry.

Abstract: A power-source connector is situated at or in the vicinity of the radial-direction middle portion of a housing and is fixed to the housing, and a first connection portion and a second connection portion for connecting the winding terminal of an armature winding with a control circuit unit are substantially symmetrically arranged at positions corresponding to the radial-direction peripheral portions of the power-source connector.

Abstract: Problem In an electric power steering device that includes a filter section, the electric power steering device in which a motor and a control unit are integrated with each other, a device that aims to improve the noise suppression function of the filter section and improve workability is provided. Solution In an electric power steering device that includes a filter section, the electric power steering device in which a motor and a control unit are integrated with each other, the control unit includes a filter module forming the filter section connected near a connector for power supply placed in an outermost portion, and this filter module is configured with wiring for electric conduction, coils and, and a filter substrate on which capacitors are mounted.

Abstract: A material of the stator core is different from a material of the housings, in a state where one end portion in the axis direction of the stator core is contacted to the first housing, and the other end portion in the axis direction of the stator core is contacted to the second housing; and a neighboring portion of a contact portion, at which the first housing is contacted to the stator core, and another neighboring portion of a contact portion, at which the second housing is contacted to the stator core, are connected by a connecting component in the axis direction, of which material is the same as a material of the stator core, whereby the first housing and the second housing are connected each other; and the first housing and the second housing face each other in a state where a gap intervenes between both housings.

Abstract: With an object of allowing steering wheel operation to be carried out easily at a normal time and when an abnormality occurs, the invention includes a motor having two windings and a control unit having two control systems that supply control signals to each winding of the motor and when an abnormality occurs in one winding of the motor or in one system inside the control unit, a supply of current to the winding in which the abnormality has occurred is cut to zero, and the motor is driven by a predetermined current necessary at a normal time being supplied to the other winding, while at a time of a normal drive when no abnormality has occurred, the current supply is shared between the two windings, whereby the motor is driven.

Abstract: A connector assembly body has: on an end surface on an opposite side to an output side of a motor; a large-current connector of a power supply system, with large-current connector being disposed in the same direction as the motor output shaft; a small-current connector of a signal system, with the small-current connector being disposed in the same direction as the motor output shaft; and a component mounting section including at least one of a capacitor and a coil, and the large-current connector, the small-current connector and the component mounting section are disposed separately in respective regions.

Abstract: Each of two control units configured in a double system has a CPU, each CPU obtains input information of the control unit of the other CPU, each CPU independently drives an electric motor at a normal time, and continues the motor drive by utilizing the input information of the control unit of the other CPU when an abnormality relating to input information is detected, and when an abnormality relating to information other than input information is detected, the control unit in which the abnormality has occurred controls the electric motor so as to continue the drive or stop the drive in accordance with details of the abnormality, and the control unit on the normal side controls the electric motor so as to at least continue the drive as normal.

Abstract: The shape of an abutting portion where a heat sink and an electronic component or the heat sink and a connection wire abut against each other, through the intermediary of an intermediate member, is contrived so that there is provided an electronic control unit that can raise the easiness of production including the intermediate member, while securing the heat radiation performance. There is provided an electric power converter in which an intermediate member having an insulating property and a heat-conductive property is provided in a gap between a heat sink and a connection wire abutting portion or an electronic component, in which the top surface of a maximum heat generating component is a plane, and in which the portion, of the heat sink, that faces the top surface of the maximum heat generating component is part of a basic plane.

Abstract: Provided is an integrated electric power steering apparatus including a positive-side wiring pattern configured to connect a positive side of a power supply and a positive side of an inverter circuit and a negative-side wiring pattern configured to connect a negative side of the power supply and a negative side of the inverter circuit, in which one of the wiring patterns is formed on a central side of a wiring board and another of the wiring patterns is formed on an outer periphery side of the wiring board. A plurality of switching elements forming the inverter circuit are mounted between the positive-side wiring pattern and the negative-side wiring pattern formed on the wiring board.

Abstract: An inverter-integrated motor according to the present invention is configured such that an inverter module and a motor are integrated so as to line up in an axial direction of the motor, the inverter module is configured into a single member in which are integrated: a power portion that includes an inverter; and a control portion that includes a microcomputer, and the motor includes: a rotor; a stator; and a pair of housings that include bearings that support a shaft of the rotor.

Abstract: An integral-type electric power steering device is configured in such a way that a motor component, a reduction mechanism, and a control device are integrally fixed, and the control device includes at least heating elements which are operated for control and which generate heat, a control board on which the heating elements are mounted, and mechanism components for fixing the control board; and at least a part of the heat, which is generated by the heating elements, is conducted to the mechanism components via a thermal-conductive component.

Abstract: There is provided a case of an electric apparatus and the manufacturing method therefor in which a sealing material, the portion of which at the depth is cured without being heated, is utilized at the junction portion of two or more case members. The case of the electric apparatus has a gap forming portion that form a gap in a junction portion where two or more case members for containing an electric apparatus are joined to each other and a sealing material filled into the gap between the gap forming portion; the sealing material is a two-liquid-mixed addition-reaction-curable sealing material that has a normal-temperature curability and includes a platinum catalyst.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a rotor for a magnet type rotating electrical machine includes the steps of: cutting and laminating pieces of the core of the rotor, to thereby form a core (3); mounting the core (3) on a rotating jig (10); forming a magnet piece (2p) into a predetermined shape by sintering; mounting a predetermined number of the magnet pieces (2p) on a regulating jig (20); pressing the magnet pieces (2p) by the regulating jig (20) while rotating the core (3) by the rotating jig (10), to thereby mount the magnet pieces (2p) on the core (3); and adjusting an axial position of the magnet piece (2p) so that an axial end surface of the core (3) and an axial end surface of the magnet piece (2p) are aligned with each other.

Abstract: A semiconductor module forming a semiconductor device includes lead frames in which switching elements are mounted on the side of upper surfaces and heat radiation surfaces are formed on the side of lower surfaces, and bus bars disposed on the lead frames and connecting between plural switching elements. The heat radiation surfaces of the lead frames are arranged on one plane and upper surfaces of flat surface portions of the bus bars are arranged on one plane, therefore, a layout property on the heat radiation surfaces or the upper surfaces the flat surface portions is good, which facilitates creation of a heat radiation structure and so on.

Abstract: In the electric power steering apparatus according to the present invention, a circuit board and an intermediate member are disposed so as to be juxtaposed in an axial direction of a rotating shaft, a connector is formed integrally on the intermediate member, and is disposed so as to pass through and protrude from a notch in a housing, and at least one of a cylindrical portion of a motor case, a frame, and the housing is configured so as to bear stress in the axial direction of the rotating shaft that acts on the connector during insertion and removal of the connector.

Abstract: Phase coils include a first phase coil and a second phase coil, the phase coils are configured by connecting together end portions of the coil terminals of the first phase coil and the second phase coil that extend outward from identical radial positions in the slots axially outside the stator core so as to be radially outside a coil end group, and the coil terminals of the first phase coils of the phase coils of three phases include joint coil portions that extend outward from the slots within a pitch of one magnetic pole, are then bent so as to extend in an identical circumferential direction, and are placed in close proximity to the end portions of the coil terminals of the second phase coils that are intended for connection therewith.

Abstract: A control unit for controlling an electric motor has on a w iring board at least an inverter circuit including two or more switching devices for supplying an electric current to the electric motor and a CPU for outputting command signals to the inverter circuit; the control unit, as an inverter module in which the wiring board is mounted in a housing with which a connector is integrated, is integrally fixed to the motor.

Abstract: A semiconductor module can be realized, which is formed by mounting an electronic component and a bus bar by solder on a lead frame including a plurality of terminals, wherein a solder flow suppressing section capable of restricting a direction of flow of solder on the lead frame is formed in the vicinity of the solder portion of the component mounted by solder, and by this configuration, positional deviation, such as rotation or movement of the mounted component, is suppressed and the size of the module can be made compact.

Abstract: An object is to release heat efficiently to heat-resistance abilities of individual components by enhancing a heat-radiation performance of power circuit components forming a power module (100) and by enhancing a heat generation balance. The power circuit components formed of power switching elements (107 and 108) forming a bridge circuit and a motor relay switching element (109) are mounted on conductive members (102) while a heat generation balance is maintained. Then, the conductive members (102) are disposed on a heat-releasing heat sink (30) by abutment, and the power circuit components and the heat sink (30) are integrally molded using mold resin (101).