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Title:
POWER SUPPLY APPARATUS
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2006197790
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide a power supply apparatus, comprising a capacitor unit using a plurality of sets of capacitor cells, and monitoring short-circuit failures or open failures, in a simple manner without monitoring the voltages of respective capacitor cells.

A power supply apparatus comprises an unit voltage detection portion 4 for detecting the voltages of a capacitor unit 3, a cell voltage detection portion 5 for detecting the voltages across a given series stage of a capacitor unit 3, and a processing portion 6 for processing voltages from these two voltage detection portions. Either short failure or open failure of a capacitor cell 2 is determined, by making a comparison between a voltage across a given series stage of the capacitor unit 3 predicted from unit voltage, and the voltage across a given series stage that is actually determined from the cell voltage detection portion.


Inventors:
MITANI YASUSUKE
OHASHI TOSHIHIKO
Application Number:
JP2005273326A
Publication Date:
July 27, 2006
Filing Date:
September 21, 2005
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Assignee:
MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC IND CO LTD
International Classes:
H02J7/00; G01R31/02
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Fumio Iwahashi
Hiroki Naito
Daisuke Nagano