Patent ID: 8884660

Claim:
A driver for driving a switching element having an input terminal, an output terminal, and an on-off control terminal, the driver comprising: a charging module configured to electrically charge the on-off control terminal of the switching element for turning on the switching element; a limiting module configured to perform a task of limiting a voltage at the on-off control terminal of the switching element by a predetermined voltage to thereby limit an increase of a current flowing between the input and output terminals of the switching element; a determining module configured to determine whether the voltage at the on-off control terminal of the switching element deviates from the predetermined voltage while the limiting module is performing the limiting task; and a correcting module configured to correct the voltage at the on-off control terminal of the switching element to be close to the predetermined voltage when it is determined that the voltage at the on-off control terminal of the switching element deviates from the predetermined voltage.