Power conversion device

1. A power conversion device comprising:

a first drive circuit that drives a switching element included in an upper-arm for one of three phases;

a second drive circuit that drives a switching element included in a lower-arm for the one phase;

and a first control circuit that generates a control signal for the first drive circuit or the second drive circuit,

wherein the power conversion device further comprises:

a first power supply circuit and a second power supply circuit that supply power to the first drive circuit and the second drive circuit, respectively;

a high-voltage power supply that supplies power to one of the first power supply circuit and the second power supply circuit; and

a low-voltage power supply that supplies power to the other of the first power supply circuit and the second power supply circuit,

wherein the high-voltage power supply and the low-voltage power supply are separated from each other,

wherein power is supplied from both the high-voltage power supply and the low-voltage power supply,

wherein the power conversion device further comprises a second control circuit that transmits a control signal, generated for the first drive circuit or the second drive circuit when an error occurs, to the first drive circuit or the second drive circuit via the control signal transmission circuit, and

wherein the control signal is generated in accordance with which of the first power supply circuit and the second power supply circuit is a circuit in which the error occurs.

2. The power conversion device according to claim 1 , further comprising:

an error detection unit that detects an error of a power supply voltage of the first drive circuit or the second drive circuit, and outputs an error detection signal; and

an error signal transmission circuit that transmits the error detection signal to the first control circuit,

wherein the first control circuit transmits the control signal generated according to an error cause based on the error detection signal to the first drive circuit or the second drive circuit via a control signal transmission circuit, and turns on the switching element included in the upper-arm or the lower-arm.

3. The power conversion device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the first control circuit is enabled to operate according to power generated by a low-voltage side power supply generation circuit having the low-voltage power supply as a power supply source, and outputs, to the second control circuit, an error detection signal generated by detecting an error in a voltage supplied to the low-voltage side power supply generation circuit, in a voltage supplied to the first control circuit, or in the first control circuit itself.

4. The power conversion device according to claim 3 ,

wherein the second control circuit, to which the error detection signal from the first control circuit is input, in the case where an error in a voltage supplied to the low-voltage side power supply generation circuit is detected based on the error detection signal, generates the control signal that turns on the switching element of the corresponding arm according to the corresponding drive circuit via the first power supply circuit or the second power supply circuit having the high-voltage power supply as a power supply source.

5. The power conversion device according to claim 3 ,

wherein the second control circuit, to which the error detection signal from the first control circuit is input, in the case where an error other than an error in a voltage supplied to the low-voltage side power supply generation circuit is detected based on the error detection signal, generates the control signal that turns on the switching element of the upper arm or the lower arm according to the corresponding drive circuit via the first power supply circuit or the second power supply circuit.

6. A power conversion device comprising:

a first drive circuit that drives a switching element of one of an upper-arm and a lower-arm for one of three phases;

a second drive circuit that drives a switching element of the other of the upper-arm and the lower-arm;

a first control circuit that generates a control signal for the first drive circuit; and

a second control circuit that generates a control signal for the second drive circuit,

wherein the power conversion device further includes a first power supply that is a power supply source for the first drive circuit and the first control circuit, and a second power supply that is a power supply source for the second drive circuit and the second control circuit,

wherein one of the first power supply and the second power supply is a high-voltage power supply and the other of the first power supply and the second power supply is a low-voltage power supply, and the high-voltage power supply and the low-voltage power supply are separated from each other,

wherein the power conversion device is enabled to perform:

a short-circuiting operation of load by turning on the switching element of the upper-arm or the lower-arm when a direct current bus bar voltage, that is a voltage between the two ends of a serial circuit of the upper-arm and the lower-arm, arrives at a first threshold value;

an operation of releasing the short-circuiting operation when the direct current bus bar voltage arrives at a second threshold value that is less than the first threshold value; and

a discharge operation of causing a smoothing capacitor, that is connected in parallel with the serial circuit, to discharge, and

wherein, when the direct current bus bar voltage arrives at the second threshold according to the short-circuiting operation, the discharge operation is stopped and the stopped state is maintained.

7. The power conversion device according to claim 6 , further comprising a switching unit that switches from the first power supply to the second power supply when an output voltage, of a power supply generation circuit that generates a predetermined power supply voltage from the first power supply, becomes less than a predetermined threshold value.

8. The power conversion device according to claim 7 ,

wherein the first power supply is a high-voltage power supply, and the second power supply is a low-voltage power supply.

9. The power conversion device according to claim 6 ,

wherein the first control circuit includes a unit that transmits an error detection signal to the second control circuit when an error of the first control circuit is detected, and a unit that detects that the power conversion device or load has become in a predetermined operation state and that performs short-circuiting of the load by driving the switching element of the upper-arm or the lower-arm according to the first drive circuit.

10. The power conversion device according to claim 9 ,

wherein the second control circuit includes a unit that receives the error detection signal transmitted from the first control circuit, and a unit that shuts off the control signal generated by the first control circuit when it is detected that the power conversion device or load has become in a predetermined operation state, and that performs short-circuiting of the load by driving the switching element of the upper-arm or the lower-arm according to the second drive circuit.

11. The power conversion device according to claim 6 ,

wherein the first control circuit includes a unit that determines an error of an output voltage of the power supply generation circuit having the second power supply as a power supply source, and a unit that, in response to determining an error of the output voltage, performs short-circuiting of the load by driving the switching element of the upper-arm or the lower-arm according to the first drive circuit.

12. The power conversion device according to claim 6 ,

wherein the first control circuit and the second control circuit include a unit that detects an error of an output voltage of each of power supply generation circuits supplying power to the control circuits, and a unit that, in response to determining an error of the output voltage, performs short-circuiting of the load by driving the switching element of the upper-arm or the lower arm through the drive circuit to which power is supplied by one of the power supply generation circuits that is different from the other of the power supply generation circuits in which the error is determined.