Patent ID: 8757304
Filing Date: 2014-06-24
Classification: B60K,B60L

Abstract:
1. An electric vehicle comprising: a plurality of electric devices; and a power control unit having a housing that stores the electricity devices, wherein, the power control unit is arranged within a motor room, the housing comprises an upper case that is arranged at a relatively upper side, a lower case that is arranged at a relatively lower side, and a heat sink housing that is fixed between the upper case and the lower case and constitutes a portion of an outer wall of the housing at a substantially intermediate position of the housing in an up-and-down direction, the heat sink housing has a heat sink portion for cooling the electric devices, the electric devices are each arranged at the upper and lower sides of the heat sink housing, each of the electric devices are covered with the upper case and the lower case, the lower case is formed with a recess that is dented toward inner side of the housing and exposes undersurface of the heat sink housing downward, and cables that connect an electric device arranged outside the housing and the electric device covered with the upper case enter inside of the upper case through the recess from the undersurface of the heat sink housing, and the cables are connected to the electric device covered with the upper case.