US 11,901,146 B2
Relay drive control device, control method, and storage medium
Tomohiro Narematsu, Nisshin (JP); Akira Umemoto, Nagakute (JP); Takuya Itoh, Toyota (JP); Yasuyuki Morishita, Owariasahi (JP); Yu Shimizu, Nagakute (JP); Fumiyoshi Kuribara, Toyota (JP); Ippei Takesue, Nisshin (JP); Daiki Takayama, Toyota (JP); Tomoya Aoki, Okazaki (JP); and Daisuke Kamikihara, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Jan. 26, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/159,790.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-041637 (JP), filed on Mar. 16, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0298837 A1, Sep. 21, 2023
Int. Cl. H01H 47/02 (2006.01); H01H 47/22 (2006.01); H01H 47/00 (2006.01); H02J 7/14 (2006.01); H02M 3/16 (2006.01)
CPC H01H 47/22 (2013.01) [H01H 47/002 (2013.01); H02J 7/14 (2013.01); H02M 3/16 (2013.01); H01H 2231/026 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A relay drive control device configured to control drive of a relay for connecting a battery mounted on a vehicle and an external power supply, the relay drive control device comprising a controller configured to, when driving the relay, supply an output voltage of the battery to the relay after increasing the output voltage to a voltage value at which the relay is drivable.