Electronic device
AssigneeAptiv Technologies AG
InventorsJoerg Wallerath, Emmanuel Boudoux
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Abstract
An electronic device for series connection on a power supply line includes a plurality of switches and a control unit configured to perform the following steps: operating error detection means during operation of the device in a first mode; operating the device in a second mode in response to an erroneous power state being detected by the error detection means during operation of the device in the first mode; operating the error detection means during operation of the device in the second mode in order to determine an error location associated with the erroneous power state detected by the error detection means during operation of the device in the first mode.
Claims10
An apparatus, comprising:
- a plurality of switches each having a plurality of operating states;
- and
- a control unit configured to:
- control the operating states of the switches in a first mode to provide power to the apparatus,
- determine an error condition during the first mode,
- control the operating states of the switches in a second mode including a plurality of operating states for at least one of the switches,
- identify a source of the error condition during the second mode,
- control the operating states of the switches in a third mode to avoid the error condition, wherein at least one of the switches has a first operating state in the first mode and a different operating state in the third mode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.