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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2022
Filed:
May. 18, 2020
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Yoshihiko Maeda, Osaka, JP;
Hisazumi Watanabe, Kanagawa, JP;
Yuji Aoki, Osaka, JP;
Akitaka Yoshikawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle driving device includes an inverter which drives a motor. The inverter includes: a three-phase bridge circuit including a plurality of switching elements; a three-phase short circuit which short-circuits three phases of the motor via the three-phase bridge circuit; and a control circuit. The control circuit includes: a microprocessor which drives the three-phase bridge circuit; a malfunction notification circuit which outputs a malfunction notification signal when the microprocessor is malfunctioning; and a latch circuit which holds the malfunction notification signal outputted from the malfunction notification circuit. The control circuit outputs a three-phase short-circuit drive signal which drives the three-phase short circuit, based on the malfunction notification signal held by the latch circuit.