Power supply control method and portable electronic device using the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9787121-B2
Application number	US-201514791256-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 3, 2015
Priority date	Dec 22, 2014
Publication date	Oct 10, 2017
Grant date	Oct 10, 2017

Abstract

A power supply control method and a portable electronic device using the same are provided. The power supply control method includes following steps: detecting an input voltage and an input current at a power input terminal of the portable electronic device; setting a plurality of detection loads sequentially to control a power adaptor to provide a detection current as the input current for the portable electronic device respectively; calculating an equivalent input impedance of the power input terminal according to the detection current and the corresponding input voltage; calculating an actual output voltage of the power adaptor according to the equivalent input impedance, the input voltage, and the input current; and setting a work load according to the actual output voltage to control the power adaptor to provide a work current as the input current for the portable electronic device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A power supply control method, adapted to control current drawn from a power adaptor by a portable electronic device, the power supply control method comprising following steps:
detecting an input voltage and an input current at a power input terminal of the portable electronic device;
setting a plurality of detection loads sequentially to control the power adaptor to provide a detection current as the input current to the portable electronic device according to the detection loads, respectively;
calculating an equivalent input impedance of the power input terminal according to the detection current and the input voltage respectively;
calculating an actual output voltage of the power adaptor according to the equivalent input impedance, the input voltage and the input current; and
setting a work load according to the actual output voltage to control the power adaptor to provide a work current as the input current to the portable electronic device according to the work load.

2. The power supply control method of the portable electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein the step of setting the detection loads to control the power adaptor to provide the detection current as the input current to the portable electronic device according to the detection loads includes:
setting a first detection load in a first period to control the power adaptor to provide a first detection current; and
setting a second detection load in a second period to control the power adaptor to provide a second detection current.

3. The power supply control method of the portable electronic device according to claim 2 , wherein the step of calculating the equivalent input impedance of the power input terminal according to the detection current and the input voltages, respectively, further includes:
calculating a voltage difference between a first input voltage in the first period and a second input voltage in the second period;
calculating a current difference between the first detection current and the second detection current; and
calculating the equivalent input impedance according to the voltage difference and the current difference.

4. The power supply control method according to claim 1 , wherein the step of calculating the actual output voltage of the power adaptor according to the equivalent input impedance, the input voltage and the input current further includes:
setting a test load in a third period to control the power adaptor to provide a test current which is increased linearly as the input current to the portable electronic device according to the test load; and
calculating a correcting voltage of the actual output voltage according to the test current and the equivalent input impedance.

5. The power supply control method according to claim 4 , wherein the step of setting the work load according to the actual output voltage to control the power adaptor to provide the work current as the input current to the portable electronic device according to the work load includes:
adjusting a predetermined minimum voltage dynamically in the third period according to the correcting voltage to generate an minimum operation voltage; and
setting the work load by comparing the input voltage and the minimum operation voltage.

6. The power supply control method according to claim 5 , wherein the step of setting the work load by comparing the input voltage and the minimum operation voltage includes:
determining whether the input voltage is less than the minimum operation voltage;
determining whether a duration that the input voltage is less than the minimum operation voltage is longer than predetermined time when the input voltage at a first time point is less than the minimum operation voltage; and
taking a load value at the first time point as a base value and reducing the load value by a unit load value to be used as the work load when the duration is longer than the predetermined time.

7. A portable electronic device, comprising:
a power input terminal;
a function module;
a battery module; and
a charge control chip coupled to the function module and the battery module, wherein when a power adaptor is connected to the power input terminal, the charge control chip receives power from the power adaptor via the power input terminal, and the charge control chip provides the power to the function module and the battery module,
wherein the charge control chip detects an input voltage and an input current at the power input terminal, sets a plurality of detection loads sequentially to control the power adaptor to provide a detection current as the input current according to the detection loads, respectively, and calculates an equivalent input impedance of the power input terminal according to the detection current and the input voltage respectively,
the charge control chip calculates an actual output voltage of the power adaptor according to the equivalent input impedance, the input voltage and the input current, and sets a work load according to the actual output voltage to control the power adaptor to provide a work current as the input current according to the work load.

8. The portable electronic device according to claim 7 , wherein the charge control chip sets a first detection load in a first period to control the power adaptor to provide a first detection current, the charge control chip sets a second detection load in a second period to control the power adaptor to provide a second detection current, the charge control chip calculates a voltage difference between a first input voltage in the first period and a second input voltage in the second period, calculates a current difference A portable electronic device, comprising: between the first detection current and the second detection current, and calculates the equivalent input impedance according to the voltage difference and the current difference.

9. The portable electronic device according to claim 7 , wherein the charge control chip sets a test load in a third period to control the power adaptor to provide a test current which is increased linearly as the input current according to the test load, calculates a correcting voltage of the actual output voltage according to the test current and the equivalent input impedance, and adjusts a predetermined minimum voltage dynamically in the third period according to the correcting voltage to generate an minimum operation voltage, and the charge control chip compares the input voltage and the minimum operation voltage to set the work load according to a compare result.

10. The portable electronic device according to claim 9 , wherein the charge control chip determines whether the input voltage is less than the minimum operation voltage and determines whether a duration that the input voltage is less than the minimum operation voltage is longer than predetermined time, and when the duration that the input voltage at a first time point is less than the minimum operation voltage is longer than the predetermined time, the charge control chip takes a load value at the first time point as a base value and reduces the load value by a unit load value to be used as the work load.

Assignees

• Asustek Comp Inc

Inventors

• Tu Wei-Chen
• Tsai Ming-Ting
• Huang Yi-Ming
• Hung Hsiang-Jui

Classifications

• H02J7/90

  Regulation of charging or discharging current or voltage · CPC title

• H02J7/80

  including monitoring or indicating arrangements · CPC title

• H02J7/00

  Circuit arrangements for charging or discharging batteries or for supplying loads from batteries · CPC title

• H02J7/34

  Parallel operation in networks using both storage and other DC sources, e.g. providing buffering (H02J7/14 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G06F1/263

  Arrangements for using multiple switchable power supplies, e.g. battery and AC (G06F1/30 takes precedence) · CPC title