Patent ID: 7473079
Filing Date: 2009-01-06
Classification: F01C,F04C

Abstract:
1. An electric compressor comprising: a compression mechanism which sucks, compresses and discharges fluid; an electric motor which drives said compression mechanism; a housing containing said compression mechanism and said electric motor; and an inverter which drives said electric motor, wherein an inverter case of said inverter is externally attached to an end wall of said housing in an axial direction and at a side of said housing having a suction port which introduces fluid into said compression mechanism, an intake passage which returns fluid from an outside of said compressor into said suction port, wherein said suction port is provided in said inverter case, and wherein said intake passage has a thermal binding portion which thermally binds said intake passage to said inverter, said thermal binding portion having a plurality of fins projecting into a fluid path of said intake passage, said inverter case having an end surface connected to an end wall of said housing such that said end surface of the inverter case defines at least part of said intake passage, and said thermal binding portion being positioned within said inverter case.