Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Temperature measuring device of a power semiconductor apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 功率半导体装置的温度测量装置
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Application No.: US13607017Application Date: 2012-09-07
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Publication No.: US09562812B2Publication Date: 2017-02-07
- Inventor: Hiroyuki Yoshimura
- Applicant: Hiroyuki Yoshimura
- Applicant Address: JP Kawasaki-Shi
- Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kawasaki-Shi
- Agency: Rabin & Berdo, P.C.
- Priority: JP2011-194942 20110907
- Main IPC: G01K15/00
- IPC: G01K15/00 ; G01K3/14 ; G01K7/01 ; H03K17/08

Abstract:
A temperature measuring device of a power semiconductor apparatus that accurately detects chip temperature even where a gradient of the measured characteristic line segment is different from a designed gradient, including a chip temperature detecting circuit that includes an A/D converter delivering a measurement value of a digital converted forward voltage across a temperature detecting diode and an operational processing unit for calibration and chip temperature calculation. In calibration processing, different known reference voltages are applied by a reference connected in place of the diode and a gradient of the line segment connecting the measurement values is calculated. The gradient is stored in a memory with an offset correction value that is one of the measurement values. A chip temperature is calculated based on a forward voltage across the diode calculated based on the measurement value and the stored values of the gradient and the offset correction value.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130060499A1 TEMPERATURE MEASURING DEVICE OF A POWER SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2013-03-07
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