Battery charging apparatus and battery charging protection control method

• US 10,461,561 B2
• Filed: 05/14/2014
• Issued: 10/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/28/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corporation Limited
• Original Assignee: Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corporation Limited
• Inventors: Zhang, Jialiang, Wu, Kewei, Cheng, Wenqiang, Hu, Yuanxiang
• Primary Examiner(s): Isla, Richard
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bui, Dung V
• Application Number:
  US15/115,251
• Publication Number:
  US 20170005499A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,994 Days
• Field of Search: 320107, 320108
• 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 7/00302 Overcharge protection
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00304 Overcurrent protection
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00308 Overvoltage protection
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0045 concerning the insertion or the connection of the batteries
• 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 7/00718 in response to charge current gradient
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/007184 in response to battery voltage gradient
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a battery charging apparatus and a battery charging protection control method. A power adapter in the battery charging apparatus performs data communication with a charging control circuit; when the power adapter determines that overvoltage and/or overcurrent occurs in the direct current output by a communication interface of the power adapter, the power adapter notifies the charging control circuit to drive a controller in the electronic device to switch off a communication interface of the electronic device and switches off the direct current output automatically; when the charging control circuit; determines that overvoltage and/or overcurrent occurs upon receiving output voltage and output current of the power adapter, the charging control circuit notifies the power adapter to switch off the direct current output and drives the controller in the electronic device to switch off the communication interface of the electronic device.

Claims

1. A battery charging apparatus, comprising a power adapter and a charging control circuit, wherein, the charging control circuit is built in an electronic device and coupled to a controller and a battery in the electronic device, the power adapter is coupled to a communication interface of the electronic device via a communication interface thereof, the battery is charged by the power adapter via the communication interface of the electronic device, and the charging control circuit performs data communication with the power adapter via the communication interface of the electronic device;

if a conventional charging or a quick charging is performed on the battery, the power adapter first determines whether an output voltage is greater than a voltage threshold and whether an output current is greater than a current threshold, if the output voltage is greater than the voltage threshold and/or the output current is greater than the current threshold, the power adapter sends a first charging stop command to the charging control circuit and automatically switches off direct current output, the charging control circuit drives the controller to switch off the communication interface of the electronic device according to the first charging stop command;

if the output voltage is not greater than the voltage threshold, and the output current is not greater than the current threshold, the power adapter feeds back output voltage information and output current information to the charging control circuit, if the charging control circuit determines that the output voltage of the power adapter is greater than the voltage threshold and/or the output current of the power adapter is greater than the current threshold according to the output voltage information and the output current information, the charging control circuit feeds back a second charging stop command to the power adapter and drives the controller to switch off the communication interface of the electronic device, and the power adapter switches off the direct current output according to the second charging stop command; and

if the charging control circuit determines that the output voltage of the power adapter is not greater than the voltage threshold and the output current of the power adapter is not greater than the current threshold according to the output voltage information and the output current information, the power adapter continues to determine the output voltage and the output current,

wherein, the power adapter comprises an EMI filter circuit, a high-voltage rectifier and filter circuit, an isolation transformer, an output filter circuit, and a voltage tracking and control circuit;

the EMI filter circuit is configured to perform an electromagnetic interference filter on mains supply, the high-voltage rectifier and filter circuit is configured to perform a rectifying and filtering process for outputting a high-voltage direct current, the isolation transformer is configured to perform an electrical isolation on the high-voltage direct current, the output filter circuit is configured to perform a filtering process on an output voltage of the isolation transformer so as to charge the battery, the voltage tracking and control circuit is configured to regulate the output voltage of the isolation transformer according to an output voltage of the output filter circuit;

the power adapter further comprises a power circuit, a main control circuit, a potential regulation circuit, a current detection circuit, a voltage detection circuit and an output switch circuit;

an input terminal of the power circuit is coupled to a secondary terminal of the isolation transformer;

a power terminal of the main control circuit, a power terminal of the potential regulation circuit, and a power terminal of the current detection circuit are jointly coupled to an output terminal of the power circuit, a high-potential terminal of the main control circuit and a high-potential terminal of the potential regulation circuit are both coupled to a positive output terminal of the output filter circuit, a potential regulation terminal of the potential regulation circuit is coupled to the voltage tracking and control circuit;

a direct current input terminal of the current detection circuit is coupled to a positive output terminal of the output filter circuit;

a current detection feedback terminal of the current detection circuit is coupled to a current detection terminal of the main control circuit;

a clock output terminal and a data output terminal of the main control circuit are coupled to a clock input terminal and a data input terminal of the potential regulation circuit;

a first detection terminal and a second detection terminal of the voltage detection circuit are coupled to a direct current output terminal of the current detection circuit and a negative output terminal of the output filter circuit respectively, a first output terminal and a second output terminal of the voltage detection circuit are coupled to a first voltage detection terminal and a second voltage detection terminal of the main control circuit respectively;

an input terminal of the output switch circuit is coupled to the direct current output terminal of the current detection circuit;

an output terminal of the output switch circuit is coupled to a third detection terminal of the voltage detection circuit;

a ground terminal of the output switch circuit is coupled to a negative output terminal of the output filter circuit;

a controlled terminal and a power terminal of the output switch circuit are coupled to a switch control terminal of the main control circuit and the secondary terminal of the isolation transformer respectively;

each of a negative output terminal of the output filter circuit, the output terminal of the output switch circuit, and a first communication terminal and a second communication terminal of the main control circuit is coupled to the communication interface of the power adapter;

the power circuit comprises;

a first capacitor, a voltage stabilizing chip, a second capacitor, a first inductor, a second inductor, a first diode, a second diode, a third capacitor, a first resistor and a second resistor;

a junction of a first terminal of the first capacitor and an input power pin and an enable pin of the voltage stabilizing chip is configured as the input terminal of the power circuit, a second terminal of the first capacitor and a ground pin of the voltage stabilizing chip are jointly grounded;

a switch pin of the voltage stabilizing chip and a first terminal of the second capacitor are jointly coupled to a first terminal of the first inductor;

an internal switch pin of the voltage stabilizing chip and a second terminal of the second capacitor are jointly coupled to a cathode of the first diode;

a voltage feedback pin of the voltage stabilizing chip is coupled to a first terminal of the first resistor and a first terminal of the second resistor, a second terminal of the first inductor and a cathode of the second diode are jointly coupled to a first terminal of the second inductor, a junction of a second terminal of the second inductor, an anode of the first diode, a second terminal of the first resistor and a first terminal of the third capacitor is configured as the output terminal of the power circuit;

an anode of the second diode, a second terminal of the second resistor and a second terminal of the third capacitor are jointly grounded.

2. The battery charging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein,

the power circuit obtains power from the isolation transformer and provides power to the main control circuit, the potential regulation circuit, and the current detection circuit;

when a quick charging is performed on the battery in the electronic device, the potential regulation circuit drives the voltage tracking and control circuit to regulate the output voltage of the isolation transformer according to a control signal sent by the main control circuit so as to perform the quick charging on the battery;

the current detection circuit and the voltage detection circuit respectively detects the output current and the output voltage of the power adapter, and correspondingly feeds back a current detection signal and a voltage detection signal to the main control circuit;

the output switch circuit switches on or off the direct current output of the power adapter according to a switch control signal sent by the main control circuit;

when a conventional charging or a quick charging is performed on the battery, the main control circuit determines whether the output current of the power adapter is greater than the current threshold according to the current detection signal, and determines whether the output voltage of the power adapter is greater than the voltage threshold according to the voltage detection signal, if the output voltage is greater than the voltage threshold and/or the output current is greater than the current threshold, the main control circuit sends the first charging stop command to the charging control circuit and controls the output switch circuit to switch off the direct current output of the power adapter, and the charging control circuit drives the controller to switch off the communication interface of the electronic device according to the first charging stop command;

if the output voltage is not greater than the voltage threshold, and the output current is not greater than the current threshold, the main control circuit feeds back the output voltage information and the output current information to the charging control circuit according to the voltage detection signal and the current detection signal, the charging control circuit determines whether the output voltage is greater than the voltage threshold and whether the output current is greater than the current threshold according to the output voltage information and the output current information, if the output voltage is greater than the voltage threshold and/or the output current is greater than the current threshold, the charging control circuit feeds back the second charging stop command to the main control circuit and drives the controller to switch off the communication interface of the electronic device, and the main control circuit controls the output switch circuit to switch off the direct current output of the power adapter according to the second charging stop command.

3. The battery charging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein,

the main control circuit comprises:

a main control chip, a third resistor, a reference voltage chip, a fourth resistor, a fifth resistor, a fourth capacitor, a sixth resistor, a seventh resistor, a first NMOS transistor, an eighth resistor, a ninth resistor, a tenth resistor, an eleventh resistor, a twelfth resistor, a thirteenth resistor and a fourteenth resistor;

a power pin of the main control chip is configured as the power terminal of the main control circuit;

a ground pin of the main control chip is grounded, a first input/output pin of the main control chip is suspended, a first terminal of the third resistor is coupled to the power pin of the main control chip, a second terminal of the third resistor and a first terminal of the fourth resistor are jointly coupled to a positive pole of the reference voltage chip, a negative pole of the reference voltage chip is grounded, a vacant pin of the reference voltage chip is suspended;

a second terminal of the fourth resistor is coupled to a second input/output pin of the main control chip;

a third input/output pin of the main control chip is configured as the current detection terminal of the main control circuit;

a fourth input/output pin of the main control chip is coupled to a first terminal of the fifth resistor;

a second terminal of the fifth resistor and a first terminal of the fourth capacitor are jointly coupled to the power pin of the main control chip, a second terminal of the fourth capacitor is grounded;

a fifth input/output pin of the main control chip is configured as the switch control terminal of the main control circuit;

a sixth input/output pin of the main control chip is coupled to a first terminal of the sixth resistor;

a second terminal of the sixth resistor and a gate electrode of the first NMOS transistor are jointly coupled to a first terminal of the seventh resistor;

a second terminal of the seventh resistor and a source electrode of the first NMOS transistor are jointly grounded;

a drain electrode of the first NMOS transistor is coupled to a first terminal of the eighth resistor;

a second terminal of the eighth resistor is configured as the high-potential terminal of the main control circuit;

a seventh input/output pin and an eighth input/output pin of the main control chip are configured as the clock output terminal and the data output terminal of the main control circuit respectively;

a tenth input/output pin and a ninth input/output pin of the main control chip are configured as the first voltage detection terminal and the second voltage detection terminal of the main control circuit respectively;

an eleventh input/output pin and a twelfth input/output pin of the main control chip are coupled to a first terminal of the ninth resistor and a first terminal of the tenth resistor respectively;

a first terminal of the eleventh resistor and a first terminal of the twelfth resistor are coupled to a second terminal of the ninth resistor and a second terminal of the tenth resistor respectively;

a second terminal of the eleventh resistor and a second terminal of the twelfth resistor are jointly grounded;

a first terminal of the thirteenth resistor and a first terminal of the fourteenth resistor are coupled to the second terminal of the ninth resistor and the second terminal of the tenth resistor respectively;

a second terminal of the thirteenth resistor and a second terminal of the fourteenth resistor are jointly coupled to the power pin of the main control chip; and

the second terminal of the ninth resistor and the second terminal of the tenth resistor are configured as the first communication terminal and the second communication terminal of the main control circuit respectively.

4. The battery charging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein,

the potential regulation circuit comprises:

a fifteenth resistor, a sixteenth resistor, a digital potentiometer, a seventeenth resistor, an eighteenth resistor, a fifth capacitor, a sixth capacitor and a nineteenth resistor;

a junction of a first terminal of the fifteenth resistor, a first terminal of the sixteenth resistor, a power pin of the digital potentiometer and a first terminal of the fifth capacitor is configured as the power terminal of the potential regulation circuit;

a second terminal of the fifth capacitor, a first terminal of the sixth capacitor, a ground pin of the digital potentiometer and a first terminal of the seventeenth resistor are jointly grounded;

a second terminal of the sixth capacitor is coupled to the power pin of the digital potentiometer;

a junction of a second terminal of the fifteenth resistor and a serial data pin of the digital potentiometer is configured as the data input terminal of the potential regulation circuit;

a junction of a second terminal of the sixteenth resistor and a clock input pin of the digital potentiometer is configured as the clock input terminal of the potential regulation circuit;

an address zero pin of the digital potentiometer is grounded;

a first potential wiring pin of the digital potentiometer and a first terminal of the eighteenth resistor are jointly coupled to a second terminal of the seventeenth resistor;

a second terminal of the eighteenth resistor and a second potential wiring pin of the digital potentiometer are jointly coupled to a first terminal of the nineteenth resistor;

a second terminal of the nineteenth resistor is configured as the high-potential terminal of the potential regulation circuit; and

a potential tap pin of the digital potentiometer is configured as the potential regulation terminal of the potential regulation circuit.

6. The battery charging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein,

the voltage detection circuit comprises:

a twenty-fifth resistor, a twenty-sixth resistor, an eleventh capacitor, a twelfth capacitor, a twenty-seventh resistor and a twenty-eighth resistor;

a first terminal of the twenty-fifth resistor is configured as the first detection terminal of the voltage detection circuit;

a junction of a second terminal of the twenty-fifth resistor, a first terminal of the twenty-sixth resistor and a first terminal of the eleventh capacitor is configured as the second output terminal of the voltage detection circuit;

a second terminal of the twenty-sixth resistor is configured as the second detection terminal of the voltage detection circuit;

a second terminal of the eleventh capacitor, a first terminal of the twelfth capacitor and a first terminal of the twenty-seventh resistor are jointly coupled to a second terminal of the twenty-sixth resistor;

a junction of a second terminal of the twelfth capacitor, a second terminal of the twenty-seventh resistor and a first terminal of the twenty-eighth resistor is configured as the first output terminal of the voltage detection circuit; and

a second terminal of the twenty-eighth resistor is configured as the third detection terminal of the voltage detection circuit.

7. The battery charging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein,

the output switch circuit comprises:

a twenty-ninth resistor, a thirtieth resistor, a thirteenth capacitor, a thirty-first resistor, a first NPN triode, a thirty-second resistor, a second NPN triode, a third diode, a voltage stabilizing diode, a thirty-third resistor, a thirty-fourth resistor, a thirty-fifth resistor, a second NMOS transistor and a third NMOS transistor;

a first terminal of the twenty-ninth resistor is configured as the controlled terminal of the output switch circuit;

a second terminal of the twenty-ninth resistor and a first terminal of the thirtieth resistor are jointly coupled to a base electrode of the first NPN triode;

a first terminal of the thirteenth capacitor, a first terminal of the thirty-first resistor and a first terminal of the thirty-second resistor are jointly coupled to a cathode of the third diode;

an anode of the third diode is configured as the power terminal of the output switch circuit;

a second terminal of the thirty-first resistor and a base electrode of the second NPN triode are jointly coupled to a collector electrode of the first NPN triode;

a second terminal of the thirty-second resistor, a cathode of the voltage stabilizing diode and a first terminal of the thirty-third resistor are jointly coupled to a collector electrode of the second NPN triode;

a second terminal of the thirtieth resistor, a second terminal of the thirteenth capacitor, an emitter electrode of the first NPN triode, an emitter electrode of the second NPN triode and an anode of the voltage stabilizing diode are jointly grounded;

a second terminal of the thirty-third resistor is coupled to a first terminal of the thirty-fourth resistor, a first terminal of the thirty-fifth resistor, a gate electrode of the second NMOS transistor and a gate electrode of the third NMOS transistor;

a second terminal of the thirty-fourth resistor is configured as the ground terminal of the output switch circuit;

a drain electrode of the second NMOS transistor is configured as the input terminal of the output switch circuit;

a source electrode of the second NMOS transistor and a second terminal of the thirty-fifth resistor are jointly coupled to a source electrode of the third NMOS transistor; and

a drain electrode of the third NMOS transistor is configured as the output terminal of the output switch circuit.

8. The battery charging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein,

the charging control circuit comprises a battery connector, a main controller, a thirty-sixth resistor, a thirty-seventh resistor, a fourteenth capacitor, a first Schottky diode, a second Schottky diode, a fifteenth capacitor, a sixteenth capacitor, a thirty-eighth resistor, a thirty-ninth resistor, a fortieth resistor, a third NPN triode, a fourth NMOS transistor and a fifth NMOS transistor;

the battery connector is coupled to an electrode of the battery;

a first pin and a second pin of the battery connector are jointly grounded;

a first ground pin and a second ground pin of the battery connector are jointly grounded;

a first input/output pin of the main controller is coupled to a seventh pin and an eighth pin of the battery connector;

a second input/output pin, a seventh input/output pin, an eighth input/output pin and a ninth input/output pin of the main controller are coupled to a sixth pin, a fifth pin, a fourth pin and a third pin of the battery connector respectively;

an analog ground pin and a ground pin of the main controller are both grounded;

a first vacant pin and a second vacant pin of the main controller are suspended;

a power pin of the main controller and a first terminal of the sixteenth capacitor are both coupled to the seventh pin and the eighth pin of the battery connector;

a fourth input/output pin and an eleventh input/output pin of the main controller are configured to perform data communication with the controller in the electronic device;

the thirty-sixth resistor is coupled between the fourth input/output pin and the power pin of the main controller;

the sixth input/output pin and the twelfth input/output pin of the main controller are coupled to the first communication terminal and the second communication terminal of the main control circuit in the power adapter respectively;

a first terminal of the thirty-seventh resistor and a first terminal of the thirty-eighth resistor are jointly coupled to a tenth input/output terminal of the main controller;

a second terminal of the thirty-seventh resistor is coupled to the power pin of the main controller;

a second terminal of the thirty-eighth resistor is coupled to a base electrode of the third NPN triode;

a fifth input/output pin of the main controller is coupled to a first terminal of the fourteenth capacitor;

a second terminal of the fourteenth capacitor and a cathode of the first Schottky diode are jointly coupled to an anode of the second Schottky diode;

a first terminal of the thirty-ninth resistor and a first terminal of the fifteenth capacitor are jointly coupled to a cathode of the second Schottky diode;

each of a second terminal of the thirty-ninth resistor, a first terminal of the fortieth resistor and a collector electrode of the third NPN triode is coupled to a gate electrode of the fourth NMOS transistor and a gate electrode of the fifth NMOS transistor;

a second terminal of the fortieth resistor and a second terminal of the fifteenth capacitor are jointly grounded;

a source electrode of the fourth NMOS transistor is coupled to an anode of the first Schottky diode, and also coupled to the seventh pin and the eighth pin of the battery connector;

a drain electrode of the fourth NMOS transistor is coupled to a drain electrode of the fifth NMOS transistor;

a source electrode of the fifth NMOS transistor is coupled to a power line of the communication interface of the electronic device;

an emitter electrode of the third NPN triode is coupled to an anode of the third Schottky diode, and a cathode of the third Schottky diode is grounded.

9. The battery charging apparatus according to claim 8, wherein, the charging control circuit further comprises a sixth NMOS transistor, a seventh NMOS transistor and a forty-first resistor;

a source electrode of the sixth NMOS transistor is coupled to the source electrode of the fifth NMOS transistor;

a drain electrode of the sixth NMOS transistor is coupled to a drain electrode of the seventh NMOS transistor, a source electrode of the seventh NMOS transistor is coupled to the collector electrode of the third NPN triode, a gate electrode of the sixth NMOS transistor and a gate electrode of the seventh NMOS transistor are jointly coupled to a first terminal of the forty-first resistor, and a second terminal of the forty-first resistor is grounded.

10. The battery charging apparatus according to claim 8, wherein, the main controller is configured to transmit voltage information and electric quantity information of the battery to the controller, to determine whether the quick charging for the battery has been completed according to a voltage of the battery, and if yes, to feed back a quick charging stop command to the electronic device for notifying the electronic device to switch from a quick charging mode to a conventional charging mode.

11. The battery charging apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the main controller is configured to determine whether the power adapter is disconnected from the battery according to a voltage of the battery during a charging process for the battery, and if yes, to feed back a charging termination command to the controller for notifying the controller to switch off the communication interface of the electronic device.

12. The battery charging apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the controller in the electronic device is configured to feed back an indication signal to the main controller if a temperature of the battery is abnormal, the main controller is configured to switch off the fourth NMOS transistor and the fifth NMOS transistor according to the indication signal, and the electronic device is configured to switch from the quick charging mode to the conventional charging mode.

5. The battery charging apparatus according to claim, wherein, the current detection circuit comprises:

a twentieth resistor, a twenty-first resistor, a twenty-second resistor, a seventh capacitor, an eighth capacitor, a current detection chip, a twenty-third resistor, a ninth capacitor, a tenth capacitor and a twenty-fourth resistor;

a first terminal and a second terminal of the twentieth resistor are configured as the direct current input terminal and the direct current output terminal of the current detection circuit respectively;

a first terminal of the twenty-first resistor and a first terminal of the twenty-second resistor are coupled to a first terminal and a second terminal of the twentieth resistor respectively;

a second terminal of the twenty-first resistor and a first terminal of the seventh capacitor are jointly coupled to a positive input pin of the current detection chip;

a second terminal of the twenty-second resistor and a first terminal of the eighth capacitor are jointly coupled to a negative input pin of the current detection chip;

a junction of a power pin of the current detection chip and a first terminal of the ninth capacitor is configured as the power terminal of the current detection circuit;

a vacant pin of the current detection chip is suspended;

an output pin of the current detection chip is coupled to a first terminal of the twenty-third resistor;

a second terminal of the twenty-third resistor is configured as the current detection feedback terminal of the current detection circuit;

a first terminal of the tenth capacitor and a first terminal of the twenty-fourth resistor are jointly coupled to a second terminal of the twenty-third resistor;

a second terminal of the seventh capacitor, a second terminal of the eighth capacitor, a second terminal of the ninth capacitor, a second terminal of the tenth capacitor, a second terminal of the twenty-fourth resistor, and a ground pin, a first reference voltage pin and a second reference voltage pin of the current detection chip are jointly grounded.