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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 17, 1998
Kosaku Ichikawa, Tokyo, JP;
Akio Hirata, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuto Kawakami, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuhiro Satoh, Tokyo, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A power converter having at least a pair of voltage drive switching elements, which comprises a gate control circuit, the gate control circuit comprising a detecting section for detecting at least one of a set of device parameters and a set of electric parameters of the voltage drive switching elements, a monitoring section for monitoring at least one of states of turn-on and turn-off of the voltage drive switching elements based on the at least one of a set of device parameters and a set of electric parameters of the voltage drive switching elements detected by the detecting section, and a control section for controlling a gate of the voltage drive switching elements based on a monitoring result of the monitoring section.