Electronic device and method for utilizing plurality of charging circuits

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10218197-B2
Application number	US-201615165740-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 26, 2016
Priority date	May 26, 2015
Publication date	Feb 26, 2019
Grant date	Feb 26, 2019

Abstract

Methods and apparatuses are provided for an electronic device. A connection of the electronic device with a charging device is detected. A state of the electronic device is determined. One of a first charging circuit and a second charging circuit is selected based on the state of the electronic device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electronic device comprising:
a first charging circuit and a second charging circuit configured to charge a battery of the electronic device;
a state determination module configured to detect a connection of the electronic device to a charging device, and determine a state of the electronic device; and
a processor configured to select one of the first charging circuit and the second charging circuit based on the state of the electronic device,
wherein the first charging circuit comprises a switching charger and the second charging circuit comprises a linear charger,
wherein the state determination module is configured to detect at least one state from a group comprising surrounding electric field strength, remaining battery amount, battery temperature, communication throughput, and EMI noise, and
wherein the processor is configured to select the switching charger, when the detected state is included in a first range, and to select the linear charger, when the detected state is included in a second range.

2. The electronic device of claim 1 , further comprising a communication module configured to perform communication,
wherein the detected at least one state associated with the communication via the communication module comprises at least one of performing circuit switching (CS) communication and performing packet switching (PS) communication.

3. The electronic device of claim 2 , wherein, when the communication module performs the CS communication or the PS communication, the processor is further configured to select the one of the first charging circuit and the second charging circuit that generates less electromagnetic interference (EMI) noise.

4. The electronic device of claim 3 , wherein the detected at least one state associated with the communication via the communication module further comprises an electric field state, and the state determination module is further configured to determine the electric field state by measuring a received signal strength indicator (RSSI).

5. The electronic device of claim 4 , wherein, when the communication module performs CS communication or PS communication and the electric field state is determined as a strong electric field, the processor is further configured to select the one of the first charging circuit and the second charging circuit having a better charging efficiency.

6. The electronic device of claim 3 , wherein the detected at least one state associated with the communication via the communication module further comprises communication throughput of the electronic device.

7. The electronic device of claim 6 , wherein, when the communication module performs CS communication or PS communication and the communication throughput of the electric device is greater than a predetermined value, the processor is further configured to select the one of the first charging circuit and the second charging circuit having a better charging efficiency.

8. The electronic device of claim 3 , wherein the at least one state associated with the communication via the communication module further comprises an electromagnetic interference (EMI) noise level.

9. The electronic device of claim 8 , wherein, when the communication module performs CS communication or PS communication and the EMI noise level is less than a predetermined value, the processor is further configured to select the one of the first charging circuit and the second charging circuit having a better charging efficiency.

10. A method performed in an electronic device, the method comprising:
detecting a connection of the electronic device with a charging device;
determining a state of the electronic device; and
selecting one of a first charging circuit and a second charging circuit based on the state of the electronic device,
wherein the first charging circuit comprises a switching charger and the second charging circuit comprises a linear charger;
wherein the determining the state of the electronic device includes detecting at least one state from a group comprising surrounding electric field strength, remaining battery amount, battery temperature, communication throughput and EMI noise, and
wherein the selecting one of the first charging circuit and the second charging circuit includes selecting the switching charger, when the detected state is included in a first range, and selecting the linear charger, when the detected state is included in a second range.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the detected at least one state comprises at least one of performing circuit switching (CS) communication and performing packet switching (PS) communication.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein selecting one of the first charging circuit and the second charging circuit comprises generating less electromagnetic interference (EMI) noise when the electronic device performs CS communication or PS communication.

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kim Hee Tae
• Jung Ku Chul

Classifications

• H02J7/865

  Battery or charger load switching, e.g. concurrent charging and load supply (H02J7/50 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H02J7/685

  using connection detecting circuits (H02J7/68 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H02J7/96

  in response to battery voltage · CPC title

• H02J7/977 Primary

  of the battery · CPC title

• H04B15/02

  Reducing interference from electric apparatus by means located at or near the interfering apparatus · CPC title