Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Overcurrent detection circuit for switches
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Application No.: US16367794Application Date: 2019-03-28
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Publication No.: US10823768B2Publication Date: 2020-11-03
- Inventor: Akifumi Araragi
- Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Kariya
- Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kariya
- Agency: Oliff PLC
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@2bd6930e
- Main IPC: G01R19/165
- IPC: G01R19/165 ; H02M7/219 ; H03K17/08 ; H02M1/00

Abstract:
In an overcurrent detection circuit for switches parallely connected to each other, sense detectors are respectively provided for the switches. Each of the sense detectors detects a sense voltage of the corresponding one of the switches. The sense voltage of each of the switches is based on a sense current associated with a current flowing through the corresponding one of the switches. A parameter calculator calculates, based on the sense voltages calculated by the respective sense detectors, a determination parameter that is less subject to imbalance between currents flowing through the respective switches. A determiner determines whether a value of the determination parameter is higher than an overcurrent threshold, and determines that there is an overcurrent flowing through at least one of the switches upon determining that the value of the determination parameter is higher than the overcurrent threshold.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190310290A1 OVERCURRENT DETECTION CIRCUIT FOR SWITCHES Public/Granted day:2019-10-10
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