Patent ID: 8581448

Claim:
A control device for a plurality of power supply circuits composed of power storage mechanisms and a plurality of relays, each of said power supply circuits including a circuit that has a first relay controlling electric conduction/non-conduction between a load and one electrode of the power storage mechanism and a resistor connected in series to said first relay, a second relay connected in parallel to said circuit, and a third relay controlling electric conduction/non-conduction between the load and another electrode of the power storage mechanism, said control device comprising: a voltage detection unit detecting a voltage value of said load; a current detection unit detecting a current value of each of said power storage mechanisms; a processing unit performing a precharge process upon power supply startup, the precharge process being performed by causing a conductive state of said first relay and said third relay before causing the conductive state of said second relay and said third relay in each of said power supply circuits; and a detection unit detecting, upon shutdown of power supply, based on drop of the voltage value of the load, detected when outputting a non-conduction command to the relay on one electrode of the power storage mechanism in each of said power supply circuits, welding of the relay on said one electrode in any of said plurality of power supply circuits, and identifying the power supply circuit in which the relay on said one electrode is welded, based on a current value of each of the power storage mechanisms detected when outputting said non-conduction command.