Electronic device and battery charge/discharge control method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9853476-B2
Application number	US-201514939152-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 12, 2015
Priority date	Nov 13, 2014
Publication date	Dec 26, 2017
Grant date	Dec 26, 2017

Abstract

An electronic device according to various embodiments of the present disclosure includes a rechargeable battery, and at least one processor. The processor generates usage pattern information of the battery based on a charge/discharge state of the battery, and configures charge/discharge information of the battery using the usage pattern information that is used to optimize battery life, operating capability of the battery, or a charge/discharge state that is an optimized tradeoff between such factors.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electronic device comprising:
a rechargeable battery; and
at least one processor communicatively coupled to the battery,
wherein the at least one processor generates usage pattern information of the battery based on a charge/discharge state of the battery and configures charge/discharge information of the battery based on the generated usage pattern information, and
a non-transitory memory that stores the generated usage pattern information,
wherein the at least one processor analyzes a battery consumption amount under one or more operating conditions of the electronic device in which at least one application is being executed on the electronic device and generates the usage pattern information of the battery associated with the execution of the at least one application.

2. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the charge/discharge information comprises at least one type of information from among a charge voltage, a charge current, and a power-off voltage.

3. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor performs analyzing of at least one type of information from among a number of times of a battery charging/discharging is performed on the battery and a charging/discharging capacity of the battery, and generating the usage pattern information of the battery based on the analyzing of the at least one type of information.

4. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor generates the usage pattern information of the battery based on at least one of time information and location information of the electronic device.

5. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor analyzes a state in which the battery is being charged, and generates the usage pattern information of the battery based on the configured charge/discharge information from when the battery is being charged until the battery is completely charged.

6. The electronic device of claim 5 , wherein the at least one processor re-configures the charge/discharge information of the battery using the generated usage pattern information.

7. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the memory stores the usage pattern information of the battery and the charge/discharge information associated with one or more operating conditions of the electronic device.

8. The electronic device of claim 1 , further comprising a power management module that is communicatively coupled to the at least one processor and charges or discharges the battery based on the configured charge/discharge information of the battery.

9. The electronic device of claim 1 , further comprising a communication module including hardware that transmits the configured charge/discharge information of the battery to an external charge device.

10. The electronic device of claim 9 , wherein the external charge device configures at least one of a charge voltage and a charge current of the battery based on the charge/discharge information of the battery received from the electronic device.

11. An electronic device comprising:
a rechargeable battery;
a display module including hardware that displays a charge/discharge mode of the battery;
an input device that receives an input for configuring the displayed charge/discharge mode of the battery; and
at least one processor that configures charge/discharge information of the battery based on the received input to set the charge/discharge mode of the battery,
wherein in response to receiving a fully charged/discharged configuration mode input at a time the electronic device sets a charge/discharge mode of the battery, the at least one processor executes at least one among an operation of configuring a charge voltage of the battery to be a fully charged voltage or an operation of configuring a power-off voltage of the battery to be a fully discharged voltage.

12. The electronic device of claim 11 , wherein in response to receiving an automatic configuration mode input at a time the electronic device sets the charge/discharge mode of the battery, the at least one processor generates usage pattern information of the battery based on a charge/discharge state of the battery and configures the charge/discharge information based on the usage pattern information.

13. The electronic device of claim 11 , wherein in response to receiving a user configuration mode input at a time the electronic device sets a charge/discharge mode of the battery, the at least one processor configures the charge/discharge information of the battery using battery configuration information obtained from a user.

14. A method for controlling charge/discharge of a battery of an electronic device, the method comprising:
generating, by at least one processor of an electronic device, usage pattern information of the battery based on a charge/discharge state of the battery, and
configuring charge/discharge information of the battery based on the usage pattern information,
wherein the generating the usage pattern information comprises:
analyzing a battery consumption amount of at least one application being executed on the electronic device and generating the usage pattern information of the battery based on execution of the at least one application.

15. The method of claim 14 , wherein the charge/discharge information comprises at least one type of information from among a charge voltage, a charge current, and a power-off voltage.

16. The method of claim 14 , wherein the generating the usage pattern information of the battery comprises:
analyzing at least one criterion from among a number of times of battery charging/discharging of the battery and a charging/discharging capacity of the battery and generating the usage pattern information of the battery.

17. The method of claim 14 , wherein the generating the usage pattern information of the battery comprises:
generating the usage pattern information of the battery based on at least one criterion from among time information and location information.

18. The method of claim 14 , wherein the generating the usage pattern information of the battery comprises:
analyzing a state in which the battery is being charged and generating the usage pattern information of the battery based on the configured charge/discharge information from when the battery is being charged until when the battery is completely charged.

19. The method of claim 18 , further comprising re-configuring charge/discharge information of the battery using the generated usage pattern information.

20. The method of claim 14 , further comprising storing the usage pattern information and the charge/discharge information in a non-transitory memory.

21. The method of claim 14 , further comprising charging or discharging the battery based on the configured charge/discharge information.

22. The method of claim 14 , further comprising transmitting the configured charge/discharge information to an external charge device.

23. A method for controlling charge/discharge of a battery, comprising:
receiving, by an electronic device, an input for configuring a charge/discharge mode of the battery; and
configuring, by the electronic device, charge/discharge information of the battery based on the received input,
wherein the configuring the charge/discharge information of the battery further comprises:
in response to receiving a user configuration mode input in the operation of receiving the input, configuring the charge/discharge information

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lee Kwanho
• Yun Yongsang

Classifications

• H02J7/825

  Detection of fully charged condition · CPC title

• H02J7/42

  with electronic devices having internal batteries, e.g. mobile phones · CPC title

• H02J7/92

  with prioritisation of loads or sources · CPC title

• H02J7/44

  between battery management systems and power sources · CPC title

• H02J7/485 Primary

  with provisions for charging different types of batteries · CPC title