Switching element driving circuit

A switching element driving circuit comprising

• a push-pull buffer circuit driving a switching element to be driven, the push-pull buffer circuit amplifying electrical power of a switching control signal and transmitting the amplified switching control signal to a control terminal of the switching element to be driven, wherein:
• in the push-pull buffer circuit, switching elements of different polarities are connected in series, as buffer elements, between a first potential and a second potential lower in potential than the first potential;
• a connecting point between control terminals of an upper-stage buffer on a side of the first potential and a lower-stage buffer on a side of the second potential serves as an input;
• a connecting point between input and output terminals of the upper-stage buffer and the lower-stage buffer serves as an output;
• an upper-stage current limiting resistor is provided between the first potential and the upper-stage buffer;
• a lower-stage current limiting resistor is provided between the second potential and the lower-stage buffer;
• the switching control signal is inputted to the input;
• and
• the output is connected to the control terminal of the switching element to be driven,
• a compensation resistor that connects the input to the output;
• and
• an input-side pull-down resistor that connects the input to a negative polarity side of the switching element to be driven,
• wherein a sum of a resistance value of the compensation resistor and a resistance value of the input-side pull-down resistor is set to be smaller than a resistance value between the control terminal of the switching element to be driven and an emitter terminal or a source terminal of the switching element, and to be larger than a resistance value of the lower-stage current limiting resistor.