Quick charging method, power adapter and mobile terminal, bidirectional communication using USB interface

• US 10,270,269 B2
• Filed: 05/25/2018
• Issued: 04/23/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 05/13/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corporation Limited
• Original Assignee: Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corporation Limited
• Inventors: Zhang, Jialiang
• Primary Examiner(s): Isla, Richard
• Assistant Examiner(s): Sharief, Mohammed J
• Application Number:
  US15/990,282
• Publication Number:
  US 20180278070A1
• Time in Patent Office: 333 Days
• Field of Search: 320114
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2207/20 Charging or discharging characterised by the power electronics converter
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00 Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00034 Charger exchanging data with an electronic device, i.e. telephone, whose internal battery is under charge
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0044 specially adapted for holding portable devices containing batteries H02J7/0045 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0068 Battery or charger load switching, e.g. concurrent charging and load supply H02J7/0013 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/007 Regulation of charging or discharging current or voltage
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/02 for charging batteries from ac mains by converters
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/04 Regulation of charging current or voltage
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/08 with current supply sources at the substations generating ringing current H04M19/04
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

A quick charging method, a power adapter, and a mobile terminal are provided. The method includes: transmitting, by the power adapter, clock signal to the mobile terminal via a first data line of the USB interface in a process of that the power adapter is coupled to the mobile terminal, in which the clock signal indicates a communication sequence between the power adapter and the mobile terminal; conducting, by the power adapter, a bidirectional communication with the mobile terminal via a second data line of the USB interface under control of the communication sequence, so as to determine to charge the mobile terminal in the quick charging mode; and adjusting, by the power adapter, a charging current of the power adapter to the charging current corresponding to the quick charging mode to charge the mobile terminal.

Claims

1. A quick charging method, the method being applied in a power adapter, the power adapter being coupled to a mobile terminal via a universal serial bus (USB) interface, a power line of the USB interface being used for the power adapter to charge the mobile terminal, the power adapter supporting a normal charging mode and a quick charging mode, a charging current corresponding to the quick charging mode being greater than a charging current corresponding to the normal charging mode, the method comprising:

transmitting, by the power adapter, a clock signal to the mobile terminal via a first data line of the USB interface in a process that the power adapter is coupled to the mobile terminal, wherein the clock signal is used for indicating a communication sequence between the power adapter and the mobile terminal;

conducting, by the power adapter, a bidirectional communication with the mobile terminal via a second data line of the USB interface under control of the communication sequence, so as to determine to charge the mobile terminal in the quick charging mode and negotiate with the mobile terminal to determine the charging current corresponding to the quick charging mode;

wherein the communication sequence comprises instruction transmission time slots of the power adapter and instruction reception time slots of the power adapter, and the instruction transmission time slots and the instruction reception time slots are alternatively generated;

conducting, by the power adapter, the bidirectional communication with the mobile terminal via the second data line of the USB interface under control of the communication sequence to determine to charge the mobile terminal in the quick charging mode comprises;

transmitting, by the power adapter, a first instruction to the mobile terminal via the second data line during the instruction transmission time slot of the power adapter, the first instruction being used for querying the mobile terminal for whether or not to activate the quick charging mode;

receiving, by the power adapter, a reply instruction corresponding to the first instruction via the second data line during the instruction reception time slot of the power adapter, the reply instruction corresponding to the first instruction being used for indicating that the mobile terminal agrees to activate the quick charging mode; and

determining, by the power adapter, to charge the mobile terminal in the quick charging mode according to the reply instruction corresponding to the first instruction; and

adjusting, by the power adapter, a charging current of the power adapter to the charging current corresponding to the quick charging mode to charge the mobile terminal.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the instruction transmission time slot of the power adapter comprises a plurality of clock periods, and each of the plurality of clock periods is used for transmitting a 1-bit data.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the instruction transmission time slot of the power adapter comprises eight clock periods, and the first instruction comprises an 8-bit data.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the instruction reception time slot of the power adapter comprises a plurality of clock periods, and each of the plurality of clock periods is used for receiving a 1-bit data.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the instruction reception time slot of the power adapter comprises ten clock periods, and the reply instruction corresponding to the first instruction comprises a 10-bit data.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the first instruction is an instruction of a quick charging communication instruction set of the power adapter, and instructions of the quick charging communication instruction set have the same previous n bits.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein each clock period of the clock signal comprises a low level of 10 μ

s and a high level of 500 μ

s.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the first data line is a D+ data line of the USB interface, and the second data line is a D−

data line of the USB interface.

9. A power adapter, the power adapter being configured to be coupled to a mobile terminal via a USB interface, a power line of the USB interface being used for the power adapter to charge the mobile terminal, the power adapter supporting a normal charging mode and a quick charging mode, a charging current corresponding to the quick charging mode being greater than a charging current corresponding to the normal charging mode, the power adapter comprising:

a communication unit configured to transmit a clock signal to the mobile terminal via a first data line of the USB interface in a process that the power adapter is coupled to the mobile terminal, wherein the clock signal is used for indicating a communication sequence between the power adapter and the mobile terminal; and

the communication unit is further configured to conduct a bidirectional communication with the mobile terminal via a second data line of the USB interface under control of the communication sequence, so as to determine to charge the mobile terminal in the quick charging mode and negotiate with the mobile terminal to determine the charging current corresponding to the quick charging mode;

wherein the communication sequence comprises instruction transmission time slots of the power adapter and instruction reception time slots of the power adapter, and the instruction transmission time slots and the instruction reception time slots are alternatively generated;

the communication unit is configured to transmit a first instruction to the mobile terminal via the second data line during the instruction transmission time slot of the power adapter, and the first instruction is used to query the mobile terminal for whether or not to activate the quick charging mode;

the communication unit is further configured to receive a reply instruction corresponding to the first instruction via the second data line during the instruction reception time slot of the power adapter, and the reply instruction corresponding to the first instruction is used for indicating that the mobile terminal agrees to activate the quick charging mode; and

the communication unit is further configured to determine to charge the mobile terminal in the quick charging mode according to the reply instruction corresponding to the first instruction; and

a current adjusting unit configured to adjust a charging current of the power adapter to the charging current corresponding to the quick charging mode to charge the mobile terminal.

10. The power adapter of claim 9, wherein the instruction transmission time slots of the power adapter comprises a plurality of clock periods, and each of the plurality of clock periods is used for transmitting a 1-bit data.

11. The power adapter of claim 10, wherein the instruction transmission time slot of the power adapter comprises eight clock periods, and the first instruction comprises an 8-bit data.

12. The power adapter of claim 9, wherein the instruction reception time slot of the power adapter comprises a plurality of clock periods, and each of the plurality of clock periods is used for receiving a 1-bit data.

13. The power adapter of claim 12, wherein the instruction reception time slot of the power adapter comprises ten clock periods, and the reply instruction corresponding to the first instruction comprises a 10-bit data.

14. The power adapter of claim 9, wherein the first instruction is an instruction of a quick charging communication instruction set of the power adapter, and instructions of the quick charging communication instruction set have the same previous n bits.

15. The power adapter of claim 9, wherein each clock period of the clock signal comprises a low level of 10 μ

s and a high level of 500 μ

s.

16. The power adapter of claim 9, wherein the first data line is a D+ data line of the USB interface, and the second data line is a D−

data line of the USB interface.

17. A mobile terminal, the mobile terminal being configured to be coupled to a power adapter via a USB interface, a power line of the USB interface being used for the power adapter to charge the mobile terminal, the mobile terminal supporting a normal charging mode and a quick charging mode, a charging current corresponding to the quick charging mode being greater than a charging current corresponding to the normal charging mode, the mobile terminal comprising:

a communication unit configured to receive a clock signal from the power adapter via a first data line of the USB interface in a process that the mobile terminal is coupled to the power adapter, wherein the clock signal is used for indicating a communication sequence between the mobile terminal and the power adapter;

the communication unit is further configured to conduct a bidirectional communication with the power adapter via a second data line of the USB interface under control of the communication sequence, so as to cause the power adapter to determine to charge the mobile terminal in the quick charging mode and to negotiate with the power adapter to determine the charging current corresponding to the quick charging mode, wherein the communication sequence comprises instruction reception time slots of the mobile terminal and instruction transmission time slots of the mobile terminal, and the instruction reception time slots and the instruction transmission time slots are alternatively generated;

the communication unit is configured to receive a first instruction from the power adapter via the second data line during the instruction reception time slot of the mobile terminal, and the first instruction is used to query the mobile terminal for whether or not to activate the quick charging mode; and

the communication unit is further configured to transmit a reply instruction corresponding to the first instruction to the power adapter via the second data line during the instruction transmission time slot of the power adapter, and the reply instruction corresponding to the first instruction is used for indicating that the mobile terminal agrees to activate the quick charging mode; and

a charging unit configured to receive the charging current corresponding to the quick charging mode from the power adapter to charge a battery of the mobile terminal.

18. The mobile terminal of claim 17, wherein the instruction reception time slot of the mobile terminal comprises a plurality of clock periods, and each of the plurality of clock periods is used for receiving a 1-bit data.

19. The mobile terminal of claim 18, wherein the instruction reception time slot of the mobile terminal comprises eight clock periods, and the first instruction comprises an 8-bit data.

20. The mobile terminal of claim 17, wherein the instruction transmission time slot of the mobile terminal comprises a plurality of clock periods, and each of the plurality of clock periods is used for transmitting a 1-bit data.