Systems and methods of head-mounted devices with mixed capacity cells

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10658680-B2
Application number	US-201715675333-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 11, 2017
Priority date	Aug 11, 2017
Publication date	May 19, 2020
Grant date	May 19, 2020

Abstract

An electronic device includes a frame and a battery. The frame is configured to be worn on a user's body. The battery is supported by the frame and includes a first cell and a second cell in electrical parallel. The first cell has a first capacity and the second cell has a second capacity that is different from the first capacity.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electronic device, the electronic device comprising:
a frame configured to be worn on a user's body;
a battery supported by the frame, the battery including:
a first cell having a first capacity, and
a second cell having a second capacity different from the first capacity, wherein the first cell and second cell are in electrical parallel; and

a thermal management device positioned contacting at least a portion of the battery and in thermal communication with the first cell and the second cell to reduce a thermal gradient between the first cell and the second cell.

2. The device of claim 1 , further comprising a tuning resistor in series with the second cell, and the battery has a first resistance across the first cell, a second resistance across the second cell and the tuning resistor, and the first resistance is less than 5% different from the second resistance.

3. The device of claim 1 , the battery in electrical communication with a near-eye display supported by the frame.

4. The device of claim 1 , the first capacity being at least 5% greater than the second capacity.

5. The device of claim 1 , further comprising a third cell in electrical parallel with the first cell and second cell.

6. The device of claim 5 , the third cell having a third capacity that is different from the first capacity and the second capacity.

7. The device of claim 1 , the first cell being in electrical communication with the second cell through an elastically flexible member.

8. The device of claim 1 , the second capacity being less than the first capacity, wherein the battery further comprises a housing that tapers toward the second cell.

9. The device of claim 1 , the device having a total capacity greater than 40 milliampere-hour (mAh).

10. The device of claim 1 , the device having at least one cell with a capacity greater than 20 (mAh).

11. An electronic device, the electronic device comprising:
a frame configured to be worn on a user's head;
a battery supported by the frame, the battery including:
a first cell in a first parallel portion having a first capacity,
a second cell in a second parallel portion having a second capacity different from the first capacity, and
a tuning resistor in series with the second cell in the second parallel portion, wherein the first parallel portion is in electrical parallel with the second parallel portion; and

a vapor chamber positioned contacting at least a portion of the battery and in thermal communication with the first cell and the second cell to reduce a thermal gradient between the first cell and the second cell.

12. The device of claim 11 , the battery tapering in at least one dimension.

13. The device of claim 11 , the battery being positioned in a band of the frame.

14. The device of claim 11 , the battery being curved in at least one direction.

15. The device of claim 11 , the battery being flexible in at least one direction.

16. The device of claim 11 , the battery further comprising a third cell in a third parallel portion, the second cell being smaller than the first cell and third cell and the second cell being positioned between the first cell and third cell.

17. An electronic device, the electronic device comprising:
a frame configured to be worn on a user's head;
a battery supported by the frame, the battery including:
a first cell having a first capacity, and
a second cell having a second capacity different from the first capacity, wherein the first cell and second cell are in electrical parallel; and

a vapor chamber positioned contacting at least a portion of the battery and in thermal communication with the first cell and the second cell to reduce a thermal gradient between the first cell and the second cell.

18. The device of claim 17 , the vapor chamber having a complementary size and shape to the battery.

19. The device of claim 17 , the vapor chamber being flexible.

20. The device of claim 17 , the vapor chamber being within a battery housing.

Assignees

• Microsoft Technology Licensing Llc

Inventors

• Binder Julian
• Chian Daniel
• Boovaragavan Vijayasekaran
• Zeng Dongli

Classifications

• H01M10/6552

  Closed pipes transferring heat by thermal conductivity or phase transition, e.g. heat pipes · CPC title

• H01M10/0436

  Small-sized flat cells or batteries for portable equipment · CPC title

• G02B2027/0178

  Eyeglass type (eyeglass details G02C) · CPC title

• H01M2220/30

  Batteries in portable systems, e.g. mobile phone, laptop · CPC title

• H01M6/42 Primary

  Grouping of primary cells into batteries (H01M6/40 takes precedence) · CPC title