Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Switch failure diagnosis device and electric storage apparatus
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Application No.: US13961570Application Date: 2013-08-07
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Publication No.: US09213064B2Publication Date: 2015-12-15
- Inventor: Takeyuki Shiraishi , Tomohiro Kawauchi , Takeshi Itagaki , Tomoshige Inoue , Daisuke Konishi
- Applicant: GS Yuasa International Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Kyoto-Shi, Kyoto
- Assignee: GS YUASA INTERNATIONAL LTD.
- Current Assignee: GS YUASA INTERNATIONAL LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kyoto-Shi, Kyoto
- Agency: McGinn IP Law Group, PLLC.
- Priority: JP2012-178364 20120810
- Main IPC: G01R31/327
- IPC: G01R31/327 ; G01R31/00 ; H02J7/00 ; H01H47/00

Abstract:
A switch failure diagnosis device for using in a current path between an electric device and an electric storage device includes plural switches, a switch terminal voltage detector, and a controller. The switches are connected parallel to each other in the current path. The switch terminal voltage detector outputs a switch terminal voltage detection signal. The controller is configured to: select the switches at different time in sequence and input an open instruction signal to each switch at the time when the switch is selected; and determine, based on the switch terminal voltage detection signal output while the open instruction signal is given, that at least one of the switches has a failure if the detected voltage is in a failure determination range.
Public/Granted literature
- US09267992B2 Switch failure diagnosis device and electric storage apparatus Public/Granted day:2016-02-23
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