Conductive polymer hybrid aluminium electrolytic capacitors for automotive use

Panasonic has developed ‘Conductive Polymer Hybrid Aluminium Electrolytic Capacitors’, said to feature large capacitance and large current in compact size, suited for automotive ECUs, power supply circuits of HEV, EV and gasoline-powered vehicles.

The capacitors measure 10 x 10.2mm and are said to enable automotive ECU downsizing with instantaneous large current supply into the power supply circuits, contributing to direct mounting on automotive engine ECUs and electromechanical integration.

In accordance with the improvement of fuel consumption of eco-cars and environment regulations, increasing the number of ECUs, direct mounting on engines instead of engine rooms, electromechanical integration is required. For capacitors, compact size, large capacity and large current are required for the purpose of stabilising power voltage and removing noise in ECU power supply circuits.

Panasonic claims to have met these market requirements and enabled instantaneous large current supply to power supply circuits, making it possible to expand to the applications of compact motor driving assistance in accordance with electromechanical integration, and large motor driving assistance with power train motorization.