Method and device for ascertaining required charging time

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10324134-B2
Application number	US-201514595858-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 13, 2015
Priority date	Jul 16, 2013
Publication date	Jun 18, 2019
Grant date	Jun 18, 2019

Abstract

A method and a device are provided for ascertaining the time required to fully charging a battery of the device. The device ascertains the type of power supply being used when charging the device by ascertaining the time required to fully charge the device based on a historical charging speed and an empirical charging speed corresponding to the power supply's type. Using the method and device provided by the present disclosure can ascertain the required charging time with more accuracy.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A device for determining a charging time of a battery, comprising a processor and a non-transitory storage medium configured to store modules comprising:
a first processing module, configured to determine a type of power supply being used when charging the battery and inform a second processing module of the type of power supply; and
the second processing module, configured to:
determine, for the type of power supply, a historical charging speed for charging a predetermined unit of electricity in the battery;
determine, for the type of power supply, an empirical charging speed for charging a predetermined unit of electricity in the battery;
wherein the second processing module comprises a first processing unit and a second processing unit, wherein the first processing unit is configured to:
determine an empirical time required to charge the unit of electricity based on the empirical charging speed;
determine a historical time required to charge the unit of electricity based on the historical charging speed;
obtain an estimated time required to charge the unit of electricity based on a weighted average of the empirical time and the historical time;
send the estimated time to the second processing unit; and

wherein the second processing unit is configured to:
sum the weighted average of the empirical time and the historical time to determine a time required to fully charge the battery; and
control charging of the battery of the intelligent device according to the determined time required to fully charge the battery of the intelligent device.

2. The device of claim 1 , wherein for each unit of electricity to be charged, the first processing unit obtains a default empirical time corresponding to the type of power supply, and takes the default empirical time as the empirical time required to charge the unit of electricity.

3. The device of claim 1 , wherein for each unit of electricity to be charged, the first processing unit determines an interval in which the percentage of remaining electricity of the battery should fall, takes the empirical time corresponding to the interval as the empirical time required to charge the unit of electricity;
partitioning the interval between 0%˜100% into a plurality of contiguous intervals in advance based on the type of power supply, and set an empirical time for each interval.

4. The device of claim 1 , wherein for each unit of electricity to be charged, the first processing unit finds an average of samples corresponding to the unit of electricity and the type of power supply, and takes the average as the historical time required to charge the unit of electricity; and
the first processing unit is also configured to store an actual time taken to charge the unit of electricity as a sample corresponding to the unit of electricity, and store the type of power supply corresponding to the sample during the process of charging.

5. The device of claim 4 , wherein the first processing unit is further configured to determine if there are already M stored samples corresponding to the unit of electricity and the type of power supply, wherein M is a positive integer greater than 1;
if not, store the actual time taken to charge the unit of electricity as a sample corresponding to the unit of electricity;
if yes, delete the first one of the stored samples corresponding to the unit of electricity, then store the actual time taken to charge the unit as a sample corresponding to the unit of electricity.

Assignees

• Tencent Tech Shenzhen Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yang Lang
• Luo Junming

Classifications

• H02J7/82

  Control of state of charge [SOC] · CPC title

• H02J7/825 Primary

  Detection of fully charged condition · CPC title

• H01M10/4257

  Smart batteries, e.g. electronic circuits inside the housing of the cells or batteries · CPC title

• G01R31/3648 Primary

  comprising digital calculation means, e.g. for performing an algorithm · CPC title

• H02J2007/005

  Electricity · mapped topic