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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2021
Filed:
May. 16, 2017
Applicant:
Denso Corporation, Kariya, JP;
Inventor:
Takeshi Inoue, Kariya, JP;
Assignee:
DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 17/082 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 17/0828 (2013.01);
Abstract
A drive control apparatus for a switching element drives a switching element including a sense element, and includes a drive circuit that provides a gate driving signal to the switching element, a transient characteristic absorbing circuit that absorbs a transient characteristic of the sense element when the switching element is turned on, and a determination circuit that determines an overcurrent or a short-circuit state of the switching element from an output of the sense element.