Toshiba Digital Units & Storage Company (“Toshiba”) has launched an automotive photorelay(1)“Tlx9165t,” in a 10pin SO16L-T package deal, that helps excessive voltage automotive batteries with an output face up to voltage of 1800V (min). Quantity shipments begin immediately.
Improved cost occasions and longer cruising ranges are important for wider adoption of electrical autos, and each require extra environment friendly operation of battery techniques. Battery administration techniques (BMS) understand environment friendly system operation by monitoring the battery cost standing, and the insulation between the battery and the automobile physique that’s important for the secure use of high-voltage batteries. BMS that should deal with excessive voltages use electrically remoted photorelays.
Vitality storage techniques (ESS), used to safe environment friendly operation of renewable vitality, have additionally adopted a configuration much like BMS; they deal with the identical excessive voltage as electrical autos, and use electrically remoted photorelays.
Whereas 400V battery techniques are the mainstream in electrical autos, rising demand for longer cruising ranges and sooner charging will hasten the shift to 800V techniques. Photorelays utilized in these battery techniques will need to have a face up to voltage roughly twice the system voltage, which is 1600V or extra for an 800V system. Toshiba’s new photorelay incorporates a newly developed high-voltage MOSFET with an output face up to voltage of 1800V (min), appropriate for 800V techniques.
The ten-pin SO16L-T package deal adopts a resin with a Comparative Monitoring Index (CTI)(2) of 600 or extra, placing it in materials group I(3) of the IEC 60664-1(4) worldwide customary, and the pin configuration ensures a creepage distance of seven.5mm or extra(5) on the sunshine receiver aspect (Determine 1). These options are compliant with IEC 60664-1, and ship an working voltage of 1500V.
The pin pitch and pin configuration are the identical as SO16L-T(6)permitting the widespread use of PCB sample design.
Toshiba will proceed to develop photorelay merchandise appropriate for battery techniques in automotive functions and vitality storage techniques in industrial gear, contributing to the secure operation of kit.

(1) Photorelay: The first (management) aspect and the secondary (swap) aspect are electrically remoted. Switches related on to the AC line and switches between gear that differ in floor potential might be managed by insulating obstacles.
(2) Comparative Monitoring Index (CTI): IEC 60112(7) defines CTI as the utmost attainable voltage earlier than droplets of ammonium chloride answer on the floor of the insulating materials trigger monitoring, below the given take a look at situations.
(3) Materials group I: One of many classifications of molded supplies in IEC 60664-1(4) refers to supplies with a Comparative Monitoring Index (CTI)(2) of 600 and extra.
(4) IEC 60664-1: This customary specifies ideas, necessities, and take a look at strategies for insulation coordination for techniques as much as AC 1000V or DC 1500V.
(5) A creepage distance of seven.5mm or extra: The required creepage distance for an working voltage 1500V, materials group I, air pollution diploma 2 (the diploma of air pollution of the working surroundings the place electrical gear is used: pollution are totally non-conductive, however may doubtlessly be rendered conductive by condensation.)
(6) SO16L-T: The package deal used for Toshiba’s TLX9160T and TLX9152M.
(7) IEC 60112: A global customary that specifies testing strategies for measuring the Comparative Monitoring Index (CTI) of insulating supplies. This customary is used to guage electrical breakdown (monitoring) traits on the floor of strong insulating supplies.
Functions
- Automotive gear: BMS (battery voltage monitoring, mechanical relay sticking detections, floor fault detections, and so on.)
- Industrial gear: ESS
- Alternative of mechanical relays
Options
- Output face up to voltage: VOFF=1800V (min)
- Usually opened (1-Type-A) system
- Avalanche present score: IOF= 0.6ma
- Excessive isolation voltage: 5000Vrms (min)
- AEC-Q101 certified
- Compliant with IEC 60664-1 Worldwide Normal
Major Specs
(Until in any other case specified, Ta=25?)
Half quantity | Tlx9165t | |||
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Contact | 1-Type-A | |||
Absolute most rankings | Enter ahead present IF (mA) | 30 | ||
ON-state present ION (mA) | 30 | |||
Working temperature Topr (°C) | -40 to 125 | |||
Avalanche present IOF (mA) | 0.6 | |||
Electrical traits | OFF-state present IOFF (?A) | VOFF=1500V | Max | 0.1 |
Output face up to voltage VOFF (V) | IOFF= 10ma | Min | 1800 | |
Beneficial working situations | Provide voltage VDD (V) | Max | 1500 | |
Coupled electrical traits | Set off LED present IFT (mA) | ION=30mA, t=10ms | Max | 3 |
Return LED present IFC (mA) | IOFF= 100ma, ta=-40 to 125°C, t=40ms | Min | 0.05 | |
ON-state resistance RON (Oh) | ION=30mA, IF=10mA, t<1s | Max | 340 | |
Switching traits | Flip-on time tON (ms) | IF=10mA, RL=20k?, VDD=40V | Max | 1 |
Flip-off time tOFF (ms) | Max | 1 | ||
Isolation traits | Isolation voltage BVS (Vrms) | AC, 60s | Min | 5000 |
Clearance distance (mm) | Min | 8 | ||
Creepage distance (mm) | Min | 8 | ||
Package deal | Identify | 10pin SO16L-T | ||
Measurement (mm) | Typ. | 10.3×10.0×2.45 | ||
SOURCE: Toshiba