Charging device and charging method for charging a battery

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10090700-B2
Application number	US-201715803583-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 3, 2017
Priority date	Feb 5, 2016
Publication date	Oct 2, 2018
Grant date	Oct 2, 2018

Abstract

The present disclosure discloses a charging device, a charging method, a power adapter and a terminal. The device includes: a charging receiving terminal configured to receive a first alternating current; a voltage adjusting circuit, including a first rectifier configured to rectify the first alternating current and output a first voltage with a first pulsating waveform, a switch unit configured to modulate the first voltage according to a control signal to obtain a modulated first voltage, a transformer configured to output a plurality of voltages with pulsating waveforms according to the modulated first voltage, and a synthesizing unit configured to synthesize the plurality of voltages to output a second alternating current; and a central control module configured to output the control signal to the switch unit so as to adjust voltage and/or current of the second alternating current in response to a charging requirement of the battery.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A charging device, comprising:
a charging receiving terminal, configured to receive an alternating current from a mains supply;
a voltage adjusting circuit, having an input end coupled to the charging receiving terminal and comprising a first rectifier, a switch unit, a transformer and a synthesizing unit, wherein
the first rectifier is configured to rectify the alternating current from the mains supply and to output a voltage with a first pulsating waveform;
the switch unit is configured to modulate the voltage with the first pulsating waveform according to a control signal;
the transformer is configured to output a plurality of voltages with pulsating waveforms according to the modulated voltage with the first pulsating waveform; and
the synthesizing unit is configured to synthesize the plurality of voltages with the pulsating waveforms to output a second alternating current; wherein

an output end of the voltage adjusting circuit is configured to be coupled to a battery such that the second alternating current is applied to the battery directly, and for each cycle of the second alternating current, a peak voltage of a positive half is greater than an absolute value of a valley voltage of a negative half, the transformer comprises a primary winding, a first secondary winding and a second secondary winding, a first end of the primary winding is coupled to a first output end of the first rectifier, a second end of the primary winding is coupled to the switch unit, the first secondary winding and the second secondary winding both are coupled to the synthesizing unit, and the transformer is configured to output a voltage with a second pulsating waveform via the first secondary winding according to the modulated voltage with the first pulsating waveform and to output a voltage with a third pulsating waveform via the second secondary winding according to the modulated voltage with the first pulsating waveform, and the synthesizing unit is configured to synthesize the voltage with the second pulsating waveform and the voltage with the third pulsating waveform to output the second alternating current; and
a central control module, configured to output the control signal to the switch unit so as to adjust at least one of a voltage and a current of the second alternating current outputted by the voltage adjusting circuit, in response to a charging requirement of the battery.

2. The charging device according to claim 1 , wherein the central control module is further configured to obtain status information of the battery, and to adjust the at least one of the voltage and the current of the second alternating current outputted by the voltage adjusting circuit according to the status information of the battery.

3. The charging device according to claim 1 , wherein the voltage adjusting circuit further comprises:
a sampling unit, configured to sample the at least one of the voltage and the current of the second alternating current to obtain at least one of a voltage sampling value and a current sampling value,
the central control module is further configured to adjust a duty ratio of the control signal according to the at least one of the voltage sampling value and the current sampling value, in response to the charging requirement.

4. The charging device according to claim 2 , wherein the voltage adjusting circuit further comprises:
a sampling unit, configured to sample the at least one of the voltage and the current of the second alternating current to obtain at least one of a voltage sampling value and a current sampling value,
the central control module is further configured to adjust the duty ratio of the control signal according to the at least one of the voltage sampling value and the current sampling value and the status information of the battery, in response to the charging requirement.

5. The charging device according to claim 3 , wherein the sampling unit comprises at least one of a first current sampling circuit and a first voltage sampling circuit; wherein,
the first current sampling circuit is configured to sample the current of the second alternating current so as to obtain the current sampling value; and
the first voltage sampling circuit is configured to sample the voltage of the second alternating current so as to obtain the voltage sampling value.

6. The charging device according to claim 1 , wherein the central control module is further configured to determine a charging mode for charging the battery, in which the charging mode comprises a first charging mode and a second charging mode.

7. The charging device according to 1 , wherein the synthesizing unit comprises:
two controllable switch circuits; and
a control module, configured to control the two controllable switch circuits to switch on or off alternately.

8. The charging device according to 7 , wherein
when the control module controls a first one of the two controllable switch circuits to switch on and controls a second one of the two controllable switch circuits to switch off, the synthesizing unit is configured to output a first half cycle of the second alternating current; and
when the control module controls the first one of the two controllable switch circuits to switch off and controls the second one of the two controllable switch circuits to switch on, the synthesizing unit is configured to output a second half cycle of the second alternating current.

9. The charging device according to claim 1 , wherein the voltage adjusting circuit further comprises:
a driving unit, coupled between the switch unit and the central control module, and configured to drive the switch unit to switch on or off according to the control signal.

10. The charging device according to claim 9 , wherein the voltage adjusting circuit further comprises:
an isolation unit, coupled between the driving unit and the central control module.

11. The charging device according to claim 10 , wherein the transformer further comprises: an auxiliary winding configured to generate a voltage with a fourth pulsating waveform according to the modulated voltage with the first pulsating waveform; the voltage adjusting circuit further comprises: a power supply unit coupled to the auxiliary winding and configured to convert the voltage with the fourth pulsating waveform to output a direct current and to supply power to at least one of the driving unit and the central control module.

12. The charging device according to claim 1 , wherein a working frequency of the transformer ranges from 50 KHz to 2 MHz.

13. The charging device according to claim 1 , wherein a peak voltage of the second alternating current is less than a peak voltage of the first alternating current, and a cycle of the second alternating current is greater than a cycle of the first alternating current.

14. The charging device according to claim 1 , wherein the charging device is positioned in a power adapter.

15. The charging device according to claim 1 , wherein the charging device is positioned in a terminal.

16. A charging method, comprising:
receiving an alternating current from a mains supply;
rectifying the alternating current by a first rectifier to output a voltage with a pulsating waveform, and modulating the voltage with the pulsating waveform by a switch unit;
converting the modulated voltage with the pulsating waveform by a transformer to a plurality of voltages with pulsating waveforms, and compositing the plurality of voltages with the pulsating waveforms by a synthesizing unit to obtain a second alternating current, wherein for each cycle of the seco

Assignees

• Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp Ltd

Inventors

• Zhang Jialiang
• Chen Shebiao
• Zhang Jun
• Tian Chen
• Wan Shiming
• Li Jiada

Classifications

• H02J7/825

  Detection of fully charged condition · CPC title

• H02J7/94

  in response to battery current · CPC title

• H02J7/82

  Control of state of charge [SOC] · CPC title

• H02J7/42

  with electronic devices having internal batteries, e.g. mobile phones · CPC title

• H02J7/975

  in response to temperature · CPC title