Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Short-circuit fault detection device
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Application No.: US15808230Application Date: 2017-11-09
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Publication No.: US10587111B2Publication Date: 2020-03-10
- Inventor: Tatsuya Miyoshi , Haruki Matsuoka , Masahiro Oguchi
- Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Toyota
- Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Toyota
- Agency: Oliff PLC
- Priority: JP2016-232374 20161130
- Main IPC: H02H3/16
- IPC: H02H3/16 ; H02M1/32 ; H02M3/158 ; H02H7/12 ; H02M1/088 ; H02M3/155 ; H02H1/00

Abstract:
A short-circuit fault detection device detects a short-circuit fault in a step-up and step-down DC-DC converter that takes generated power of a solar cell as an input and outputs a predetermined voltage to a power storage. The DC-DC converter includes a step-up upper arm, a step-up lower arm, a step-down upper arm, and a step-down lower arm. The short-circuit fault detection device includes a voltage detection unit detecting a voltage output to the DC-DC converter from the solar cell, a current detection unit detecting a current output to the power storage from the DC-DC converter, and a controller controlling switching elements constituting the DC-DC converter to determine whether each arm of the DC-DC converter has a short-circuit fault based on a detected voltage value that is a detected value of the voltage detection unit, and a detected current value that is a detected value of the current detection unit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180152014A1 SHORT-CIRCUIT FAULT DETECTION DEVICE Public/Granted day:2018-05-31
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