A power electronics unit for driving an electric machine excited by permanent magnets and including a rotor and a stator having at least one stator winding, comprising at least one power switch designed to drive the stator winding, and an overvoltage protection device to protect the power switch from overvoltage. The overvoltage protection device comprises a phase voltage detecting device associated with the power switch as well as a short-circuit switching circuit which, when a predetermined phase voltage threshold value of the phase voltage detected by the phase voltage detection device is reached or exceeded, is adapted to be activated for short-circuiting the stator winding associated with the power switch. The short-circuit switching circuit comprises the power switch designed to drive the stator winding.

An integrated circuit comprising: an input terminal configured to receive a failure-event-signal representative of a failure event; a first output terminal configured to provide a first-failure-signal; and a second output terminal configured to provide a second-failure-signal; and a processing block configured to: set the first-failure-signal based on the failure-event-signal; and set the second-failure-signal, at a predetermined time interval after the first-failure-signal is set. The processing block further comprises a switch configured selectively, based on a received digital-error-signal to either: set the second-failure-signal based on a digital-counter-output-signal; or set the second-failure-signal based on an analogue-trigger-signal.

This disclosure describes a control circuit to manage the energy flow for an integrated motor generator (IMG), such as an integrated starter generator (ISG) system. The circuit regulates the output voltage of the IMG when the IMG operates in generator mode. The circuit includes an additional switch for each phase connected in anti-series with the half-bridge circuit for the phase, e.g., the drain of the additional switch connects to the drain of the high-side switch. When the ISG is in generator mode, the additional switches are controlled, e.g., to charge the battery at a constant voltage and current throughout the speed range of the ISG (i.e. high rpm and low rpm). In generator mode, the high-side switches may be turned off, which configures the high-side switches to act as a diode and block battery discharge for low rpm operation when the phase voltages are lower.

A method for managing an electronic circuit (2) including a thermal protection device (12) interrupting the operation of the electronic circuit when a measured temperature exceeds a predetermined threshold, includes counting the electronic circuit operation interruptions and interrupting the operation of the electronic circuit when the number of counted interruptions reaches a predetermined value and when no reset has taken place. The corresponding circuit includes: a counter (16); linking elements between the counter and the thermal protection device such that the counter can indicate the number of operation interruptions caused by the thermal protection device; and elements for resetting the counter.

A load driving device, wherein a logic portion for switching on/off a switch element connected to a load includes: a switch signal generation circuit for generating a switch signal so that the switch element is left on by default in a time duration from when power is turned on until an external reset release is performed by a microcomputer; an overcurrent protection circuit for performing, after the external reset release, an output restriction of the switch signal so as to forcibly switch the switch element off in response to an overcurrent detection signal; and a latch circuit for performing, in the time duration from when power is turned on until the external reset release is performed by the microcomputer, an output restriction of the switch signal so as to forcibly switch the switch element off with the overcurrent detection signal serving as a latch trigger.

A device for supplying power to an inductive load, including an H-bridge switching structure, the switching structure being designed to drive a current in the inductive load through a first control output and a second control output, an anomaly detector designed to generate an item of anomaly detection information about the detection of an anomaly at the switching structure, the anomaly detector including a first voltage generator, a second voltage generator, a first current measuring device, a second current measuring device designed to measure a current at the output of the second voltage generator, a third current measuring device, a fourth current measuring device, a fifth current measuring device and a sixth current measuring device, the current measuring devices being designed to respectively measure the currents of the switches.

A brushless DC motor having a plurality of electrical windings and a control circuit operatively connected thereto. The control circuit includes a plurality of switches configured for a time-dependent application of an electrical voltage from an external voltage supply to the windings. A measuring device is also provided for generating an electrical signal depending on the current flow I.sub.B from the external voltage supply through the control circuit. An overcurrent fuse is further provided for protecting the control circuit and the windings. In order to achieve particularly high integration of the control circuit, the invention proposes supplying a voltage drop across the overcurrent fuse to the measuring device as an input value.

The present disclosure relates to inter-phase short-circuit detection, and particularly, to a method and apparatus for detecting inter-phase short-circuit of a three-phase motor, and an air conditioner including the same. The apparatus for detecting inter-phase short-circuit of a three-phase motor includes: a power supply for rectifying AC power to supply DC power; an inverter for generating three-phase current for driving the three-phase motor using the DC power, the inverter including a plurality of switching elements including high-side switching elements and low-side switching elements corresponding to three phases, and a current sensor commonly connected to the switching elements; a gate driver for driving the plurality of switching elements; and a controller for controlling the gate driver such that current flowing through the high-side switching elements and current flowing through the low-side switching elements partially short-circuit to sense a current flowing through the current sensor and determine inter-phase short-circuit.

A semiconductor package for a multi-phase motor driving circuit comprises a driving unit, a switching unit, a first bonding wire, and a second bonding wire. The driving unit comprises a first driving IC, a second driving IC and a third driving IC, configured to couple with a controller. The switching unit comprises a first pair of power switches, a second pair of power switches and a third pair of power switches, configured to couple with the first driving IC, the second driving IC and the third driving IC, respectively. The first bonding wire is coupled between a sensing pin of the first driving circuit and a connection between the driving unit and a motor driven by the driving. The second bonding wire is coupled between a fault out pin of the first driving IC, the second driving IC and the third driving IC.

A motor drive includes a rectifier bridge, which rectifier bridge is connected to an DC link, which is connected to an inverter bridge having phase outputs configured to be connected to an elevator motor, as well as a drive control controlling the semiconductor switches of the inverter bridge. The inverter bridge has upper semiconductor switches of the upper side connected to plus of the DC link and lower semiconductor switches of the lower side connected to minus of the DC link, the upper semiconductor switches are semiconductor switches without desaturation- and/or over-current protection whereas the lower semiconductor switches comprise a desaturation- and/or over-current protection, or vice versa. The drive control includes an earth fault control circuit which is configured to establish an earth fault test, in which each single semiconductor switch comprising a desaturation- and/or over-current protection is switched through, only one at a time, over a test time period, whereby the earth fault control circuit is configured to enable start of the motor drive only if the earth fault test has not lead to a tripping of the desaturation- and/or over-current protection of one of the semiconductor switches.