Contact failure detection system

1. A contact failure detection system comprising:

a temperature sensor to detect a temperature at a contact between a live part of a connector for a first circuit device and a live part of a connector for a second circuit device; and

a controller to determine an occurrence of a contact failure between the live parts on a condition that a difference between an amount of change in the temperature detected by the temperature sensor per a predetermined time and an amount of change in an ambient temperature of the second circuit device per the predetermined time is greater than a set value.

2. The contact failure detection system according to claim 1 ,

wherein the first circuit device includes a power storage unit, and

wherein the second circuit device includes a bidirectional inverter and the controller.

3. The contact failure detection system according to claim 1 , wherein the ambient temperature is measured at a location inside of the second circuit device at a position where the temperature change is smaller than a temperature change of the connector of the second circuit device.

4. The contact failure detection system according to claim 1 , wherein the ambient temperature is measured outside of the housing of the second circuit device.

5. The contact failure detection system according to claim 1 , wherein while an electric current is flowing between the first circuit device and the second circuit device, the controller executes a process to determine whether or not a contact failure has occurred between the live parts of the connectors.

6. The contact failure detection system according to claim 5 , wherein the first circuit device includes a power storage unit, and wherein the second circuit device includes a bidirectional inverter and the controller.

7. A contact failure detection system comprising:

a first temperature sensor to detect a temperature at a contact between a first live part of a connector for a first circuit device and a second live part of a connector for a second circuit device;

a second temperature sensor to detect a temperature at a third live part in a current path through which an electric current associated with an electric current flowing into the contact flows; and

a controller to determine an occurrence of a contact failure between the live parts of the connectors on a condition that a difference between an amount of change in the temperature detected by the first temperature sensor per a predetermined time and an amount of change in the temperature detected by the second temperature sensor per the predetermined time is greater than a set value.

8. The contact failure detection system according to claim 7 , wherein while an electric current is flowing between the first circuit device and the second circuit device, the controller executes a process to determine whether or not a contact failure has occurred between the live parts of the connectors.

9. A contact failure detection system comprising:

a first temperature sensor to detect a temperature at a first contact between a live part of a connector for a first power storage unit and a live part of a connector for a second power storage unit connected in series with the first power storage unit;

a second temperature sensor to detect a temperature at a second contact between a live part of a connector for a third power storage unit connected in series with the first and the second power storage units and a live part of a connector for a fourth power storage unit connected in series with the first, the second, and the third power storage units; and

a controller to determine whether or not a contact failure has occurred in any one of the first contact and the second contact by comparing an amount of change in the temperature detected by the first temperature sensor per a predetermined time with an amount of change in the temperature detected by the second temperature sensor per the predetermined time.