Patent ID: 9300233
Filing Date: 2016-03-29
CPC Classification: B60K,B60L,B60W,H02P,Y02T

Claim Text:
1. A vehicle comprising: an AC rotating electric machine coupled to a wheel of the vehicle; an inverter configured to supply phase current to the rotating electric machine; and an electronic control unit configured to perform reduction control for reducing a rotational speed of the rotating electric machine, when the phase current exceeds a permissible value to bring about an overcurrent abnormality during rotation of the rotating electric machine, wherein the electronic control unit is configured to determine that a short-circuit fault occurs in the inverter, when the phase current flows in the rotating electric machine even when a command to bring the inverter into a gate turn-off state is generated while the rotational speed of the rotating electric machine is reduced to be lower than a threshold speed through the reduction control.