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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2021
Fuji Electric Co., Ltd., Kawasaki, JP;
Kenichiro Sato, Shiojiri, JP;
FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD., Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A semiconductor device, including a control circuit that has a gate control circuit driving a power semiconductor element. The control circuit further includes a plurality of alarm detection circuits respectively detecting a plurality of abnormalities, a protection circuit stopping the gate control circuit responsive to the detection of any abnormality, an alarm signal generation circuit generating an alarm signal responsive to the detected abnormality, a warning detection circuit detecting a warning before any of the abnormalities is detected, and a pulse generation circuit generating a warning signal while the warning is being detected. The alarm signal is a one-shot pulse having a pulse width thereof corresponding to the detected abnormality, such that alarm signals generated responsive to different abnormalities have different pulse widths. The warning signal includes a plurality of successive pulses, each of which has a pulse width smaller than any of the pulse widths of the alarm signals.