Charging device, charging method, power adapter and terminal

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10516290-B2
Application number	US-201715649552-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 13, 2017
Priority date	Feb 5, 2016
Publication date	Dec 24, 2019
Grant date	Dec 24, 2019

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 ripple 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 ripple waveforms according to the modulated first voltage, and a compositing unit configured to composite 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 a first alternating current;
a voltage adjusting circuit, having an input end coupled to the charging receiving terminal, and comprising:
a first rectifier, configured to rectify the first alternating current and output a first voltage with a first ripple 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 ripple waveforms according to the modulated first voltage; and
a compositing unit, configured to composite the plurality of voltages 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, 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; 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 outputted by the voltage adjusting circuit, in response to a charging requirement of the battery,
wherein central control module is configured to adjust a duty ratio of the control signal according to a voltage sampling value and/or a current sampling value obtained by sampling voltage and/or current of the second alternating current, in response to the charging requirement.

2. The charging device according to claim 1 , wherein 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 compositing unit, and the transformer is configured to output a second voltage with a second ripple waveform via the first secondary winding according to the modulated first voltage and to output a third voltage with a third ripple waveform via the second secondary winding according to the modulated first voltage, and the compositing unit is configured to composite the second voltage and the third voltage to output the second alternating current.

3. 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 voltage and/or the current of the second alternating current outputted by the voltage adjusting circuit according to the status information of the battery.

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

5. The charging device according to 4 , wherein
when the control module controls a first one of the two controllable switch circuit to switch on and controls a second one of the two controllable switch circuit to switch off, the compositing 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 circuit to switch off and controls the second one of the two controllable switch circuit to switch on, the compositing unit is configured to output a second half cycle of the second alternating current.

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

7. 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.

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

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

10. A charging method, comprising:
receiving a first alternating current;
rectifying the first alternating current to output a first voltage with a ripple waveform, and modulating the first voltage to obtain a modulated first voltage;
converting the modulated first voltage to a plurality of voltages with ripple waveforms, and compositing the plurality of voltages to obtain a second alternating current, wherein 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; and
directly applying the second alternating voltage to a battery so as to charge the battery,
wherein the method further comprises:
adjusting voltage and/or current of the second alternating current, in response to a charging requirement of the battery;
sampling voltage and/or current of the second alternating current to obtain a voltage sampling value and/or a current sampling value;
wherein adjusting voltage and/or current of the second alternating current comprises:
adjusting a duty ratio of the control signal according to the voltage sampling value and/or the current sampling value so as to adjust the voltage and/or current of the second alternating current.

11. The charging method according to claim 10 , further comprising:
obtaining status information of the battery, and adjusting voltage and/or current of the second alternating current according to the status information of the battery, in response to a charging requirement of the battery.

12. The charging method according to claim 10 , 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.

13. A power adapter, comprising:
a first rectifier, configured to rectify a first alternating current to output a first voltage with a ripple waveform;
a switch unit, configured to modulate the first voltage to obtain a modulated first voltage;
a transformer, configured to output a plurality of voltages with ripple waveforms according to the modulated first voltage;
a compositing unit, configured to composite the plurality of voltages to obtain a second alternating current, wherein 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; wherein the second alternating voltage is directly applied to a battery so as to charge the battery,
wherein the power adapter is further configured to:
adjust voltage and/or current of the second alternating current, in response to a charging requirement of the battery;
sample voltage and/or current of the second alternating current to obtain a voltage sampling value and/or a current sampling value; and
adjust a duty ratio of the control signal according to the voltage sampling value and/or the current sampling value so as to adjust the voltage and/or current of the second alternating current.

14. The power adapter according to claim 13 , wherein the power adapter is further configured to:
obtain status information of the battery, and adjusting voltage and/or current of the second alternating current according to the status information of the battery, in response to a charging requirement of the battery.

15. The power adapter according to claim 1

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