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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 16, 2016
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Masanori Kurimoto, Tokyo, JP;
Yuki Iwagami, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A driving deviceincludes: a fault detection devicethat determines a fault in an actuator; a serial interfacethat communicates with an MCU; a memory devicethat stores a program received from the MCUand a fault determination result by the fault detection device; a CPUthat causes the fault detection deviceto execute the fault determination according to a fault determination request from the MCU; a timer devicethat measures a limit time over which fault determination is performed and a determination period of fault determination; and a counter devicethat counts the number of repeats of fault determination and the number of fault occurrences in the actuator