Patent ID: 11876508
Assignee: ROHM CO., LTD.
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  B  G | IPC B  G  H

Claim 0:
1. A switch device comprising:
a switching element arranged to connect/disconnect a current path from a power supply terminal to a ground terminal via a load, the switching element being a high side switch connected between the power supply terminal and the load;
an intermittent control unit arranged to intermittently drive the switching element when an abnormality is detected;
an output voltage monitoring portion arranged to monitor an output voltage applied to the load and to disable the intermittent control unit until the output voltage increases to a power supply voltage applied to the power supply terminal, and
a signal path for transmitting a signal from the output voltage monitoring portion to the intermittent control unit.