Charging method, charging system, and power adapter

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11070076-B2
Application number	US-201715712382-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 22, 2017
Priority date	Feb 5, 2016
Publication date	Jul 20, 2021
Grant date	Jul 20, 2021

Abstract

A charging system, a charging method, and a power adapter are provided. The power adapter includes a battery, a first rectification unit, a transformer, a synthesis unit, a first charging interface, a sampling unit, and a modulation and control unit. The modulation and control unit is configured to modulate a voltage of a first pulsating waveform according to a voltage sampling value obtained by the sampling unit, such that a second AC output from the synthesis unit meets charging requirements.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A charging system, comprising:
a battery;
a first rectification unit, configured to rectify an input alternating current (AC) and output a voltage of a first pulsating waveform;
a transformer, configured to output voltages of multiple pulsating waveforms at a secondary side of the transformer;
a synthesis unit, configured to synthesize voltages of multiple pulsating waveforms output at the secondary side of the transformer and output a second AC for charging the battery, wherein an absolute value of a peak voltage of a positive half of each cycle of the second AC is greater than an absolute value of a valley voltage of a negative half;
a sampling unit, configured to sample a voltage of the second AC to obtain a voltage sampling value; and
a modulation and control unit, configured to modulate the voltage of the first pulsating waveform according to the voltage sampling value and to apply the voltage of the modulated first pulsating waveform to a primary side of the transformer, and the transformer being configured to convert the voltage of the modulated first pulsating waveform to the voltages of the multiple pulsating waveforms, such that the second AC meets charging requirements.

2. The system of claim 1 , further comprising a charging control switch and a controller, wherein the charging control switch is configured to control a switch-on or switch-off of the charging of the battery under the control of the controller.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein
the battery is capable of being charged with a first charging mode and a second charging mode, wherein a charging current of the second charging mode is greater than a charging current of the first charging mode,
the controller is configured to conduct two-way communication with the modulation and control unit, such that the system determines to charge the battery with the second charging mode, wherein when it is determined to charge the battery with the second charging mode, the synthesis unit outputs to charge the battery according to the charging current corresponding to the second charging mode.

4. A power adapter, comprising:
a first rectification unit, configured to rectify an input alternating current (AC) and output a voltage of a first pulsating waveform;
a transformer, configured to output voltages of multiple pulsating waveforms at a secondary side of the transformer;
a synthesis unit, configured to synthesize voltages of multiple pulsating waveforms output at the secondary side of the transformer and output a second AC, wherein an absolute value of a peak voltage of a positive half of each cycle of the second AC is greater than an absolute value of a valley voltage of a negative half, wherein the second AC is applied to a battery of a terminal;
a sampling unit, configured to sample a voltage of the second AC to obtain a voltage sampling value; and
a modulation and control unit, configured to modulate the voltage of the first pulsating waveform according to the voltage sampling value and to apply the voltage of the modulated first pulsating waveform to a primary side of the transformer, and the transformer being configured to convert the voltage of the modulated first pulsating waveform to the voltages of the multiple pulsating waveforms, such that the second AC meets charging requirements.

5. The power adapter of claim 4 , wherein
the transformer comprises a primary winding, a first secondary winding, and a second secondary winding,
the transformer is configured to output a voltage of a second pulsating waveform via the first secondary winding according to the voltage of the modulated first pulsating waveform, and to output a voltage of a third pulsating waveform via the second secondary winding according to the voltage of the modulated first pulsating waveform, and
the synthesis unit is configured to synthesize the voltage of the second pulsating waveform and the voltage of the third pulsating waveform to output the second AC.

6. The power adapter of claim 4 , wherein the modulation and control unit is further configured to control the power adapter to stop outputting when the voltage sampling value is greater than a second preset voltage value.

7. The power adapter of claim 4 , wherein the modulation and control unit is further configured to modulate the voltage of the first pulsating waveform according to the voltage sampling value, wherein the power adapter outputs the second AC intermittently.

8. The power adapter of claim 4 , further comprising:
an auxiliary winding, configured to generate a voltage of a fourth pulsating waveform based on the voltage of the modulated first pulsating waveform; and
a power supply unit, coupled with the auxiliary winding, and configured to convert the voltage of the fourth pulsating waveform and output a direct current (DC) to supply power to the modulation and control unit.

9. The power adapter of claim 8 , wherein the modulation and control unit is further configured to detect the voltage of the fourth pulsating waveform to obtain a voltage detection value and to modulate the voltage of the first pulsating waveform according to the voltage detection value.

10. The power adapter of claim 4 , wherein the power adapter comprises a first charging interface, wherein the power adapter is coupled with the terminal through the first charging interface to establish two-way communication.

11. The power adapter of claim 10 , wherein the modulation and control unit is configured to acquire status information of the terminal based on the two-way communication between the power adapter and the terminal, and to modulate the voltage of the first pulsating waveform according to the status information of the terminal and the voltage sampling value.

12. The power adapter of claim 10 , 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.

13. The power adapter of claim 12 , wherein the modulation and control unit is configured to determine a charging mode via the two-way communication between the power adapter and the terminal, the charging mode comprising a first charging mode and a second charging mode.

14. The power adapter of claim 13 , further comprising:
a rectification and filter unit; and
a controllable switch, configured to control whether the rectifier and filter unit operates, wherein
the rectifier and filter unit is configured to rectify and filter one of the voltages of multiple pulsating waveforms to output a second DC,
when the charging mode is determined to be the first charging mode, the modulation and control unit is further configured to control the controllable switch to cause the rectifier and filter unit to operate, and to control the synthesis unit to stop operating, wherein the rectification and filter unit is configured to output the second DC to charge the battery, and
when the charging mode is determined to be the second charging mode, the modulation and control unit is configured to control the controllable switch to cause the rectification and filter unit to stop operating and to control the synthesis unit to operate, wherein the second AC be applied to the battery.

15. The power adapter of claim 13 , wherein when the temperature of the battery is greater than a first preset temperature threshold or lower than a second preset temperature threshold and the current charging mode is the second charging mode, the second charging mode is switched to the first charging mode, wherein the first preset

Assignees

• Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp Ltd

Inventors

• Zhang Jialiang
• Tian Chen
• Zhang Jun
• Chen Shebiao
• 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