Cooling Device Busbar Integration in Electrical Enclosure Lines
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electrical enclosure arrangements require increased space and installation costs due to the need to direct busbars outside the enclosures and through cooling devices, which separates them.
Innovation Solution
An electrical enclosure arrangement where the cooling device suctions warm air from both sides of the enclosures and blows cooled air back in, allowing the busbar to be directed through a transfer area within the cooling device, reducing the need for external routing and optimizing space usage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If busbars are directed outside the electrical enclosures through the cooling device, then electrical connectivity between enclosures is achieved, but space requirements and installation costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the busbar transfer function with the cooling device structure. The cooling device housing incorporates a busbar transfer area with aligned openings that serve dual purposes: enabling air flow for cooling and providing a pathway for busbars to pass between enclosures. This integration eliminates the need for separate external busbar routing, reducing both space requirements and installation complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The cooling device is designed with multi-functionality, serving both thermal management and electrical connection purposes. The housing structure with its aligned openings and transfer area performs simultaneously as a cooling air pathway and as a busbar conduit, allowing one component to fulfill multiple functions that would traditionally require separate elements.
2Temperature
If the cooling device is positioned between electrical enclosures, then cooling effectiveness is improved, but busbar routing becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the busbar transfer function with the cooling device structure. The cooling device housing incorporates a busbar transfer area with aligned openings that serve dual purposes: enabling air flow for cooling and providing a pathway for busbars to pass between enclosures. This integration eliminates the need for separate external busbar routing, reducing both space requirements and installation complexity.
3Ease of manufacture
If busbars are routed externally above the enclosure body, then installation is simplified, but space requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the busbar transfer function with the cooling device structure. The cooling device housing incorporates a busbar transfer area with aligned openings that serve dual purposes: enabling air flow for cooling and providing a pathway for busbars to pass between enclosures. This integration eliminates the need for separate external busbar routing, reducing both space requirements and installation complexity.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This configuration enables a space-saving busbar direction between electrical enclosures separated by a cooling device, reducing installation expenses and maintaining effective cooling and electrical connectivity.
Implementation Method 1
the cooling device (2) suctions warm air from the electrical enclosures (1.1, 1.2), from both the opposite faces (3) via which it adjoins each of the electrical enclosures, and blows it as cooled air into the electrical enclosure
Implementation Method 2
which, on its upper side, via which the cooling device housing adjoins the busbar transfer area, has a hot air suction opening, and wherein hot air is suctioned from the at least one fan via the hot air suction opening
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AI summary
The invention relates to an electrical enclosure arrangement comprising an electrical enclosure line and a cooling device connected into the line. The electrical enclosure line is formed from multiple electrical enclosures which are connected together. The invention is characterized in that the cooling device suctions hot air out of the electrical enclosures via two opposite faces, each of the faces of the cooling device adjoining a respective electrical enclosure, and blows the air back into the electrical enclosures as cooled air. At least one busbar is guided through a busbar transfer area of the cooling device between the electrical enclosures adjoining the cooling device.