Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited

Kyushu University

Gaia Biomedicine Inc.

Yuichiro Yazaki

Masanori Maruyama

Yuji Maekawa

Masaya Mitake

Keiji Nagasaka

Takefumi Ishidao

Satoru Saito

Masato Okamoto

A bidirectional DC-DC converter includes a first circuit that is configured to process a first voltage being a DC voltage and that includes a first electronic component including a first switching element; a second circuit that is configured to process a second voltage or a third voltage, the second voltage being a DC voltage supplied to an electric vehicle, the third voltage being a DC voltage generated in an electric vehicle, and that includes a second electric component with a lower withstand voltage than the first electronic component, the second electric component including a second switching element; and a control circuit configured to control switching of at least one of the first switching element and the second switching element wherein the bidirectional DC-DC converter is configured to convert the first voltage into the second voltage or convert the third voltage into the first voltage.

Bidirectional DC-DC converter, traffic system, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

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Tokyo, Japan

Yuichiro Yazaki