Aisin Aw Co., Ltd.

Aisin Aw Industries Co., Ltd.

Yasushi Nakamura

Kazuo Aoki

Keita Mutsuura

Yuji Takakura

Yutaka Hotta

Subrata Saha

Hiromichi Agata

Yoshinobu Ito

Shota Sekiguchi

Tomoya Hirano

An amplitude of current ripples on a primary side of a power supply device that uses a plurality of transformers is reduced. A driving power supply device () that supplies electric power to a plurality of drive circuits () that individually drive switching elements () of an inverter () includes a plurality of transformers (L) having secondary-side coils (Ls) which are individually connected to the respective corresponding drive circuits (); a plurality of transformer driving units () each including a driving switching element (M) that controls supply of electric power to a primary-side coil (Lp); and a power supply control device () that provides transformer drive signals (MG) for driving the transformer driving units (). The power supply control device () drives the transformer driving units () by transformer drive signals (MG) having different phases.

Driving power supply device

An electrically driven vehicle inverter device includes a smoothing capacitor, a discharge resistor, a discharge resistor and first and second discharge switching elements connected in series between both ends of the smoothing capacitor, and a clamp circuit provided for at least one of the first and second discharge switching elements. The clamp circuit includes a reverse flow prevention element and a constant voltage generation element that causes a constant voltage drop when a voltage across the constant voltage generation element exceeds a value determined in advance, for example.

Electrically driven vehicle inverter device

A switching element driving circuit that includes a push-pull buffer circuit driving a switching element to be driven, the push-pull buffer circuit amplifying electrical power of a switching control signal and transmitting the amplified switching control signal to a control terminal of the switching element to be driven; a compensation resistor that connects the input to the output; and an input-side pull-down resistor that connects the input to a negative polarity side of the switching element to be driven.

Switching element driving circuit

A switching element drive circuit that drives a main switching element by providing a control terminal of the main switching element with a drive signal that has asymmetric positive and negative potentials with respect to a reference potential, the main switching element including a ground terminal, which is a source terminal or an emitter terminal, and to which the reference potential is connected.

Switching element drive circuit

A rotating electrical machine control device where the changeover control circuit switches the source of electric power for the electronic control unit when the electric power that is supplied from the second DC power supply to the electronic control unit becomes equal to or lower than a predetermined first reference value and electric power that is output from the backup power supply is equal to or higher than a predetermined second reference value, and the electronic control unit uses the electric power supplied from the backup power supply to cause the inverter to perform the switching operation to perform fail-safe control.

Rotating electrical machine control device

A resolver excitation apparatus that adjusts amplitude of a sinusoidal excitation source signal to generate an excitation signal having predetermined amplitude in order to excite an exciting winding of a resolver. A parallel resonant circuit having a parallel resonant element that functions as parallel resonant impedance for impedance of the excitation winding. A series resonant circuit having a series resonant element that functions as series resonant impedance for the impedance of the excitation winding.

Resolver excitation apparatus

An inverter apparatus that includes an inverter that is interposed between an AC rotary electric machine and both a DC power supply and a smoothing capacitor and that includes a plurality of switching elements; a controller that controls driving of the plurality of switching elements; and a current sensor that detects a current flowing through a wire connecting the DC power supply and the inverter together, wherein the controller determines whether or not to stop driving of all of the plurality of switching elements based on the current detected by the current sensor while the AC rotary electric machine is caused to perform a regenerative operation of generating power.

Inverter apparatus

An inverter drive power supply circuit for driving a plurality of inverter switching devices that form an inverter circuit, includes a number N of transformers (N is an integer equal to or larger than 2) adapted to a push-pull method, each having a first winding and a second winding for a primary winding and a first winding and a second winding for a secondary winding, and supplying an output voltage of the secondary winding to the inverter switching devices.

Inverter drive power supply circuit for driving a plurality of inverter switching devices that form an inverter circuit

A motor control device has a plurality of drive circuits that are respectively provided on arms of an inverter circuit that supplies current to an AC motor, the plurality of drive circuits driving respectively a plurality of switching elements included on the arms; a power source control circuit that performs a control of a plurality of power supply circuits that supply power respectively to the plurality of drive circuits; a low-voltage circuit area that includes the power source control circuit; a plurality of high-voltage circuit areas, each high-voltage circuit area including a drive circuit from the plurality of drive circuits; and a plurality of transformers that serve as the plurality of power supply circuits and respectively join the low-voltage circuit area and the plurality of high-voltage circuit areas in an insulated state.

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Nishio, Japan

Yasushi Nakamura