Patent ID: 8682520
Filing Date: 2014-03-25
Classification: B60L,B60R,G01R,H02M,Y02T

Abstract:
1. A controller for a vehicle, said vehicle including: a power supply; a plurality of motors; a plurality of inverters performing electric power conversion between said power supply and said plurality of motors; an insulating resistor for externally, electrically insulating an electric conduction path connecting said power supply, said plurality of motors, and said plurality of inverters; and a detector connected to said insulating resistor via said electric conduction path and performing a determination process to determine whether said insulating resistor is defective, based on how a determination signal varies in potential, to detect whether said insulating resistor is defective, said determination signal varying in potential as said insulating resistor has a reduced resistance value, and also varying when said plurality of inverters have operating frequencies with a difference smaller than a predetermined value, the controller comprising: a determination unit that determines whether said detector currently performs said determination process; and a control unit that controls said operating frequencies of said plurality of inverters in accordance with a result provided by said determination unit, when said determination process is currently not performed, said control unit performing random control to arbitrarily vary each of said operating frequencies of said plurality of inverters, when said determination process is currently performed, said control unit performing limitative control to restrict said random control to allow said plurality of inverters to have said operating frequencies with limited variation to prevent said operating frequencies from having a difference smaller than said predetermined value.