Patent ID: 11932114
Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.
Field: Semiconductors (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  H  Y | IPC B  H

Claim 10:
11. A vehicle comprising:
an electric motor drive;
a battery to supply a current to the electric motor drive; and
a traction inverter package to modify the current of the battery and provide the modified current to the electric motor drive, the traction inverter package including:
a first power electronics module including
a plurality of first transistors that are diagonally offset from each other,
a gate drive device electrically connected to the first transistors and disposed adjacent the first transistors in a first view of the traction inverter package, wherein the first transistors and the gate drive device are disposed at a same level, and
a capacitor adjacent to the first transistors in the first view, wherein in the first view, the capacitor is diagonally offset from the gate drive device; and

a second power electronics module disposed under the first power electronics module, wherein the second power electronics module includes second transistors that are diagonally offset from each other, wherein the second transistors are staggered relative to the first transistors,
wherein the first transistors are disposed over the second transistors so that no part of the second transistors is directly vertically under any of the first transistors.