Patent ID: 6960903

Claim:
A trouble determining apparatus for a chopper type DC boosting circuit comprising: an inductor through which a current supplied from a DC power supply flows; a switching device for interrupting a current flowing to the inductor by opening or grounding the side opposite to said DC power supply of the inductor; a rectifier for rectifying a discharge current generated by back electromotive force of said inductor; a first capacitor for smoothing a current rectified by the rectifier; and a control means for controlling the switching of said switching device so that a between-terminal voltage of the first capacitor turns to a target voltage, said trouble determining apparatus further comprising: an interrupting means for interrupting the supply of current from said DC power supply to said inductor; a current supplying means for supplying a DC current to the side of said DC power supply of said inductor; a second capacitor for charging with a current supplied from the current supplying means; and a short-circuit trouble determining means in which said interrupting means interrupts a current supplied from said DC power supply to said inductor and when said control means controls said switching device to turn OFF, determines whether or not said switching device is in the short-circuit trouble based on changes in voltage between terminals of said second capacitor determined by the charge characteristic of said second capacitor with a time passage.