Patent ID: 8435019

Claim:
A vehicle-air-conditioner electric compressor in which an inverter accommodating section is provided at a periphery of a housing containing an electric motor and a compression mechanism, and an inverter that converts direct-current power supplied from a high-voltage power source to three-phase alternating-current power and supplies it to the electric motor is accommodated inside the inverter accommodating section, wherein a control board constituting the inverter is screwed to fixing-screw base surfaces provided at a plurality of locations of the inverter accommodating section, and wherein a base that has the same height as the fixing-screw base surfaces arranged upwardly from the housing side, that supports only a part of the control board near substantially a midpoint of a fixing-screw pitch on the control board or near a position where a large component is disposed on the control board, and that is provided independently of the fixing-screw base surfaces at one or more locations of the inverter accommodating section.