Charging system and method, and power adapter

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10141766-B2
Application number	US-201715803506-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 3, 2017
Priority date	Feb 5, 2016
Publication date	Nov 27, 2018
Grant date	Nov 27, 2018

Abstract

The present disclosure discloses a charging system and method, and a power adapter. The system includes a power adapter and a terminal. The power adapter includes a first rectifier, a switch unit, a transformer, a synthesizing unit, a sampling unit, and a control unit. The control unit outputs a control signal to the switch unit, and adjusts a duty ratio of the control signal according to a current sampling value and/or a voltage sampling value, such that a second alternating current outputted by the synthesizing unit meets a charging requirement. The terminal includes a battery.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A power adapter, comprising:
a first rectifier, configured to rectify an input alternating current and to output a voltage with a first pulsating waveform;
a switch unit, configured to modulate the voltage with the first pulsating waveform according to a control signal;
a transformer, having a primary winding, a plurality of secondary windings and an auxiliary winding, wherein the transformer is configured to output a plurality of voltages with pulsating waveforms via the plurality of secondary windings according to the modulated voltage with the first pulsating waveform, and to couple the modulated voltage with the first pulsating waveform via the auxiliary winding;
a synthesizing unit, configured to synthesize the plurality of voltages with the pulsating waveforms to output a second alternating current, wherein for each cycle of the second alternating current, an absolute value of a peak voltage of a positive half of the second alternating current is greater than that of a trough voltage of a negative half of the second alternating current;
a first charging interface, coupled to an output end of the synthesizing unit, and configured to apply the second alternating current to a battery in a terminal via a second charging interface of the terminal when the first charging interface is coupled to the second charging interface, in which the second charging interface is coupled to the battery;
a sampling unit, configured to sample a voltage and/or a current at the auxiliary winding to obtain a voltage sampling value and/or a current sampling value; and
a control unit, coupled to the sampling unit and the switch unit respectively, and configured to output the control signal to the switch unit, and to adjust a duty ratio of the control signal according to the current sampling value and/or the voltage sampling value, such that the second alternating current meets a charging requirement of the terminal.

2. The power adapter according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of secondary windings comprises 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 are coupled to the synthesizing unit respectively, 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.

3. The power adapter according to claim 2 , wherein 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.

4. The power adapter according to claim 1 , wherein the control unit is further configured to adjust a frequency of the control signal according to the voltage sampling value and/or the current sampling value.

5. The power adapter according to claim 1 , wherein the control unit is further configured to communicate with the terminal so as to obtain status information of the terminal, and the control unit is further configured to adjust the duty ratio of the control signal according to the status information of the terminal and at least one of the voltage sampling value and the current sampling value.

6. The power adapter according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a driving unit, coupled between the switch unit and the control unit, and configured to drive the switch unit to switch on or off according to the control signal.

7. The power adapter according to claim 6 , further comprises:
an isolation unit, coupled between the driving unit and the control unit.

8. The power adapter according to claim 6 , further comprises:
a power supply unit, coupled to the auxiliary winding, wherein the auxiliary winding is configured to output a voltage with a fourth pulsating waveform, and the power supply unit is configured to convert the voltage with the fourth pulsating waveform and to output a first direct current, so as to supply power to the driving unit and/or the control unit respectively.

9. The power adapter according to claim 8 , wherein the sampling unit is configured to sample a voltage and/or a current of the voltage with the fourth pulsating waveform to obtain the voltage sampling value and/or the current sampling value.

10. The power adapter according to claim 1 , wherein a working frequency of the transformer ranges from 50 KHz to 2 MHz.

11. The power adapter according to claim 1 , wherein the sampling unit comprises:
a first current sampling circuit, configured to sample the current at the auxiliary winding so as to obtain the current sampling value; and
a first voltage sampling circuit, configured to sample the voltage at the auxiliary winding so as to obtain the voltage sampling value.

12. The power adapter according to claim 11 , wherein the first voltage sampling circuit comprises:
a peak voltage sampling and holding unit, configured to sample and hold a peak voltage of the fourth voltage;
a cross-zero sampling unit, configured to sample a zero crossing point of the fourth voltage;
a bleeder unit, configured to drain off the peak voltage sampling and holding unit at the zero crossing point; and
an AD sampling unit, configured to sample the peak voltage in the peak voltage sampling and holding unit so as to obtain the voltage sampling value.

13. The power adapter according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a second voltage sampling circuit, configured to sample the voltage with the first pulsating waveform, and coupled to the control unit, wherein the control unit is configured to control the switch unit to switch on for a first predetermined time period for discharging when a voltage value sampled by the second voltage sampling circuit is greater than a first predetermined voltage value.

14. The power adapter according to claim 1 ,
wherein the control unit is configured to communicate with the terminal via the first charging interface to determine a charging mode, in which the charging mode comprises a first charging mode and a second charging mode.

15. The power adapter according to claim 14 , further comprising:
a rectifying and filtering unit, configured to perform a rectifying and filtering on one of the plurality of voltages with the pulsating waveforms to output a second direct current; and
a controllable switch, configured to control an operation of the rectifying and filtering unit;
wherein the control unit is further configured to control the rectifying and filtering unit to perform the rectifying and filtering on one of the plurality of voltages with the pulsating waveforms and control the synthesizing unit to stop from synthesizing the voltage with the second pulsating waveform and the voltage with the third pulsating waveform by controlling the controllable switch when determining the charging mode is the first charging mode, such that the rectifying and filtering unit outputs the second direct current to charge the battery; and to control the rectifying and filtering unit to stop from performing the rectifying and filtering on one of the plurality of voltages with the pulsating waveforms and control the synthesizing unit to synthesize the voltage with the second pulsating waveform and the voltage with the third pulsating waveform by controlling the controllable switch when

Assignees

• Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp Ltd

Inventors

• Zhang Jialiang
• Tian Chen
• Zhang Jun
• Chen Shebiao
• 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