Charging system, charging method, and power adapter

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10340718-B2
Application number	US-201715725074-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 4, 2017
Priority date	Feb 5, 2016
Publication date	Jul 2, 2019
Grant date	Jul 2, 2019

Abstract

A charging system, a charging method, and a power adapter are provided. The power adapter includes a first rectification unit, a switch unit, a transformer, a second rectification unit, a first charging interface, a sampling unit, a control unit, a second charging interface, and a battery coupled to the second charging interface. The control unit is configured to output a control signal to the switch unit, and adjust a duty ratio of the control signal based on a voltage sampling value and/or current sampling value sampled by the sampling unit, in which a voltage of a third pulsating waveform meets charging requirements. When the second charging interface is coupled to the first charging interface, the second charging interface applies the voltage of the third pulsating waveform to the battery, in which the voltage of the pulsating waveform output from the power adapter can be directly applied to the battery.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system for charging, comprising:
a first rectification unit, configured to rectify an input alternating current (AC) voltage and output a voltage of a first pulsating waveform;
a switch unit, configured to modulate the voltage of the first pulsating waveform according to a control signal;
a transformer, configured to output a voltage of a second pulsating waveform based on the voltage of the modulated first pulsating waveform;
a second rectification unit, configured to rectify the voltage of the second pulsating wave form and output a voltage of a third pulsating waveform;
a first charging interface, coupled with the second rectification unit;
a control unit, coupled with the first charging interface and the switch unit, respectively, and configured to output the control signal to the switch unit; and
a battery and a second charging interface coupled with the battery, wherein when the second charging interface is coupled to the first charging interface, the control unit is further configured to:
obtain a voltage of the battery via the first charging interface, and
adjust a duty ratio of the control signal, wherein the voltage of the third pulsating waveform is applied to the battery via the second charging interface when a peak voltage of the voltage of the third pulsating waveform is greater than the voltage of the battery.

2. The system of claim 1 , further comprising:
a sampling unit, configured to sample at least one of an output voltage or an output current of the second rectification unit to obtain at least one of a voltage sampling value or a current sampling value, wherein the control unit is configured to be coupled with the sampling unit, and adjust a frequency of the control signal based on at least one of the voltage sampling value or the current sampling value.

3. A power adapter, comprising:
a first rectification unit, configured to rectify an input alternating current (AC) voltage and output a voltage of a first pulsating waveform;
a switch unit, configured to modulate the voltage of the first pulsating waveform according to a control signal;
a transformer, configured to output a voltage of a second pulsating waveform based on the voltage of the modulated first pulsating waveform;
a second rectification unit, configured to rectify the voltage of the second pulsating wave form and output a voltage of a third pulsating waveform;
a first charging interface, coupled with the second rectification unit and a second charging interface of a terminal, wherein the second charging interface is coupled with a battery of the terminal; and
a control unit, coupled with the first charging interface and the switch unit, configured to:
output the control signal to the switch unit to communicate with the terminal via the first charging interface to obtain a voltage of the battery when the first charging interface is coupled with the second charging interface, and
apply the voltage of the third pulsating waveform to the battery via the second charging interface when adjusting a duty ratio of the control signal to make a peak voltage of the voltage of the third pulsating waveform greater than the voltage of the battery.

4. The power adapter of claim 3 , further comprising:
a sampling unit, configured to sample at least one of an output voltage of the second rectification unit or an output current of the second rectification unit to obtain at least one of a voltage sampling value or a current sampling value, wherein the control unit is configured to be coupled with the sampling unit, and adjust a frequency of the control signal based on at least one of the voltage sampling value or the current sampling value.

5. The power adapter of claim 4 , wherein the sampling unit comprises:
a first current sampling circuit, configured to sample the output current of the second rectification unit to obtain the current sampling value; and
a first voltage sampling circuit, configured to sample the output voltage of the second rectification unit to obtain the voltage sampling value.

6. The power adapter of claim 5 , wherein the first voltage sampling circuit comprises:
a peak voltage sample-and-hold unit, configured to sample and hold the peak voltage of the voltage of the third pulsating waveform;
a zero-crossing point sampling unit, configured to sample a zero-crossing point of the voltage of the third pulsating waveform;
a bleeder unit, configured to bleed down the voltage of the peak voltage sample-and-hold unit at the zero-crossing point; and
an analog-digital (AD) sampling unit, configured to sample the peak voltage of the peak voltage sample-and-hold unit to obtain the voltage sampling value.

7. The power adapter of claim 3 , wherein the control unit is further configured to switch off a channel for charging the terminal by the power adapter when acquiring the voltage of the battery, and switch on the channel when a peak voltage of the voltage of the third pulsating waveform is greater than the voltage of the battery.

8. The power adapter of claim 7 , wherein the control unit is configured to adjust the duty ratio of the control signal to increase an output current of the second rectification unit after the channel has been switched on.

9. The power adapter of claim 3 , wherein the first charging interface comprises:
a power wire, configured to be used by the power adapter to charge the battery; and
a data wire, configured to be used by the power adapter to communicate with the terminal.

10. The power adapter of claim 9 , wherein the control unit is configured to communicate with the terminal via the first charging interface to determine a charging mode, the charging mode comprising a first charging mode and a second charging mode.

11. The power adapter of claim 10 , wherein when the control unit performs two-way communication with the terminal via the data wire in the first charging interface and determines to charge the terminal with the second charging mode, the control unit is further configured to transmit a first instruction to the terminal and receive, from the terminal, a reply instruction corresponding to the first instruction, wherein the first instruction is configured to inquire the terminal whether to enable the second charging mode, and the reply instruction corresponding to the first instruction is configured to indicate that the terminal agrees to enable the second charging mode.

12. The power adapter of claim 11 , wherein prior to the control unit transmits the first instruction to the terminal, the power adapter is configured to charge the terminal with the first charging mode, and the control unit is configured to transmit the first instruction to the terminal when the control unit determines that a charging duration of the first charging mode is greater than a preset threshold.

13. The power adapter of claim 11 , wherein the control unit is further configured to control the power adapter to adjust a charging current to the charging current corresponding to the second charging mode by controlling the switch unit, and prior to the power adapter charges the terminal with the charging current corresponding to the second charging mode, the control unit is further configured to conduct the two-way communication with the terminal via the data wire in the first charging interface to determine a charging voltage corresponding to the second charging mode and control the power adapter to adjust a charging voltage to the charging voltage corresponding to the second charging mode.

14. The power adapter of claim 13 , wherein the control unit is further configured to conduct the two-way commu

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