Electronic system for converting dc voltage into ac voltage
AssigneeDenso Corporation
InventorsKazunori WATANABE, Tsuneo Maebara, Yasunari Tanimura, Noriyuki Takagi, Yoshiyuki Hamanaka, Junichi Fukuta
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AssigneeDenso Corporation
InventorsKazunori WATANABE, Tsuneo Maebara, Yasunari Tanimura, Noriyuki Takagi, Yoshiyuki Hamanaka, Junichi Fukuta
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An electronic system has IGBT, on driving FET and off driving FET connected with the gate of the IGBT, and a control circuit. The on driving FET in an on state supplies electric charge to the IGBT gate. The off driving FET in an on state releases the charge from the GET gate. The control circuit controls each of the on FETs according to a driving signal to be set in the on and off states every switching period of time and to control the voltage at the IGBT gate. When on-failure occurs in the on driving FET set in the on state so as to keep the on driving FET in the on state in spite of control of the control circuit, the control circuit controls a controlled element other than the off driving FET to set the IGBT in the off state.
An electronic system, comprising:
The electronic system according to claims, wherein the controlled element is an off holding switching element, connected with the control terminal of the first switching element, which is set in an on state to release the electric charge from the control terminal of the first switching element, the control circuit controls the off driving switching element to release the electric charge from the control terminal of the first switching element and to decrease the voltage at the control terminal of the first switching element to a value lower than an on-off threshold value, the control circuit controls the off holding switching element to hold the off state of the first switching element when the voltage at the control terminal of the first switching element becomes equal to or lower than an off holding threshold value which is lower than the on-off threshold value, and the control circuit controls the off holding switching element, when the control circuit judges that the on-failure has occurred in the on driving switching element, to set the first switching element in the off state.
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