Charging device, charging method, power adapter and terminal

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10992160-B2
Application number	US-201916683138-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 13, 2019
Priority date	Feb 5, 2016
Publication date	Apr 27, 2021
Grant date	Apr 27, 2021

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 first rectifier, configured to rectify the first alternating current and output a first voltage with a first pulsating 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 pulsating 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 compositing unit 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 the compositing unit comprises two controllable switch circuit and a control module, the control module is configured to control the two controllable switch circuit to switch on or off alternately; 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 compositing unit, in response to a charging requirement of the battery.

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 pulsating waveform via the first secondary winding according to the modulated first voltage and to output a third voltage with a third pulsating 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 , further comprising: a first sampling unit, configured to sample at least one of the voltage and the current of the second alternating output to obtain at least one of a voltage sampling value and a current sampling value.

4. The charging device according to claim 3 , wherein the central control module is configured to adjust at least one of a duty ratio and a frequency of the control signal according to the at least one of the voltage sampling value and the current sampling value, in response to the charging requirement.

5. The charging device according to claim 3 , wherein the central control module is configured to switch the switch unit off when the voltage sampling value is greater than a first predetermined voltage value or the current sampling value is greater than a predetermined current value.

6. The charging device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a second sampling unit, coupled to the central control module, configured to sample the first voltage with the first pulsating waveform.

7. The charging device according to claim 6 , wherein the central control module is further configured to switch the switch unit on for a predetermined time period when the voltage sampled by the second sampling unit is greater than a second predetermined voltage value.

8. The charging device according to claim 1 , wherein the transformer further comprises: an auxiliary winding configured to generate a fourth voltage with a fourth pulsating waveform according to the modulated first voltage.

9. The charging device according to claim 8 , wherein the charging device further comprises: a power supply unit coupled to the auxiliary winding and configured to convert the fourth voltage with the fourth pulsating waveform to output a first direct output and to supply power to the central control module.

10. The charging device according to claim 8 , further comprising: a first voltage detecting unit, coupled to the auxiliary winding and the central control module, the first voltage detecting unit is configured to detect the fourth voltage with the fourth pulsating waveform to generate a voltage detecting value; wherein the central control module is further configured to adjust a duty ratio of the control signal according to the voltage detecting value.

11. The charging device according to 1 , 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.

12. The charging device according to claim 1 , further comprising: a controllable switch and a rectifying and filtering unit; wherein
the controllable switch is configured to control an operation of the rectifying and filtering unit;
the rectifying and filtering unit is configured to rectify and filter one of the plurality of voltages with pulsating waveforms to output a second direct output;
wherein the central control module is further configured to control the rectifying and filtering unit to work by controlling the controllable switch and control the compositing unit to stop working when determining a charging mode as a first charging mode; control the rectifying and filtering unit to stop working by controlling the controllable switch and control the compositing unit to work when determining a charging mode as a second charging mode;
wherein a charging speed of the first charging mode is less than that of the second charging mode.

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

14. 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.

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

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

17. 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 pulsating 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; and the compositing unit comprises two controllable switch circuit and a control module, the control module is configured to control the two controllable switch circuit to switch on or off alternately, wherein the

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