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US 12,567,763 B2Granted
Power supply control device
AssigneeHitachi Astemo, Ltd.
InventorsMasafumi Yamamoto, Takumi Masubuchi
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Abstract
A power supply control device includes: a plurality of power supply circuits; a control circuit that controls the power supply circuits; an output current monitor that monitors output currents of the power supply circuits; and a storage unit in which any one of a plurality of operation modes for controlling the power supply circuits is settable. The control circuit controls the power supply circuits based on the operation mode set in the storage unit and the output currents monitored by the output current monitor.
Claims7
A power supply control device comprising:
- a plurality of power supply circuits, including a first, second, and third power supply circuits;
- a micro controller unit having a function A, a function B, and a memory;
- a control circuit that is connected to the micro controller unit and that controls the power supply circuits;
- an output current monitor that monitors output currents of the power supply circuits;
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- a storage unit in which any one of a plurality of operation modes for controlling the power supply circuits is settable, wherein
- the control circuit controls the power supply circuits based on the operation mode set in the storage unit and the output currents monitored by the output current monitor,
- the plurality of power supply circuits operate in a plurality of operation modes, including a redundancy mode in which in response to a failure of the first power supply circuit, the control circuit combines currents from the second power supply circuit and the third power supply circuit into a second combined current, and supplies the second combined current to the function A of the microcontroller unit;
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- a non-redundancy mode in which:
- the first power supply circuit supplies power to the function A of the microcontroller unit,
- the second power supply circuit supplies power to the function B of the microcontroller unit,
- the third power supply circuit supplies power to the function B of the microcontroller unit and to the memory,
- and in which currents from the first power supply circuit, the second power supply circuit, and the third power supply circuit are combined into a first combined current, and the first combined current is supplied to the microcontroller unit.
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