Wireless charging equipment, terminal, wireless charging system comprising the same, control method thereof and non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer program recorded thereon

• US 10,651,674 B2
• Filed: 12/22/2017
• Issued: 05/12/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 04/08/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SK Planet Co., Ltd. (SK Telecom Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: SK Planet Co., Ltd. (SK Telecom Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Park, Yon Won, Kim, Hyun Wook, Na, Seung Won, Kang, Seong Wook
• Primary Examiner(s): Memula, Suresh
• Application Number:
  US15/853,035
• Publication Number:
  US 20180123382A1
• Time in Patent Office: 872 Days
• Field of Search: 320108
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/10 using inductive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/12 of the resonant type
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/40 using two or more transmitting or receiving devices H02J50/50 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/80 involving the exchange of data, concerning supply or distribution of electric power, between transmitting devices and receiving devices
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00034 Charger exchanging data with an electronic device, i.e. telephone, whose internal battery is under charge

Abstract

Provided are wireless charging equipment, a terminal, a wireless charging system comprising the same, a control method thereof, and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer program recorded thereon. That is, the present invention can easily implement the present invention without a separate BLE beacon device by using the wireless charging infrastructure and improve operation efficiency of the entire wireless charging system by transmitting additional information (alternatively, specific information) to the peripheral BLE terminal for a time where the charging signal is not transmitted in the corresponding BLE by using the BLE of the resonance scheme wireless charging equipment.

Claims

1. Wireless charging equipment comprising:

a communication unit configured to communicate with a terminal based on a BLE scheme; and

a control unit configured to;

verify predetermined class information for the terminal in class information for each terminal pre-stored based on identification information of the terminal,

determine a number of channels of a plurality of pre-divided channels to be allocated to the terminal based on the class information,

allocate the determined number of channels to the terminal, and

provide a wireless charging function to the terminal with a wireless charging intensity corresponding to the allocated number of channels.

2. The wireless charging equipment of claim 1, wherein the predetermined class information for the terminal is set based on at least one of motion accumulated in one or more stores, region movement information in the one or more stores and product purchase history information in the one or more stores.

3. The wireless charging equipment of claim 1, wherein, when there is no class information corresponding to the identification information of the terminal, the control unit is configured to set a predetermined minimum class for the terminal.

4. The wireless charging equipment of claim 1, wherein the plurality of pre-divided channels are generated by dividing entire power providable by the wireless charging equipment into a predetermined minimum power unit.

5. A terminal comprising:

a communication unit configured to communicate with a wireless charging equipment based on a BLE scheme;

a battery configured to be charged based on a charging signal transmitted from the wireless charging equipment; and

a control unit configured to charge the battery with wireless charging intensity corresponding to a number of pre-divided channels allocated to the terminal, the number of pre-divided channels allocated to the terminal being determined based on a predetermined class information for the terminal and the pre-divided channels being generated by dividing entire power providable by the wireless charging equipment into a predetermined minimum power unit.

6. A control method of wireless charging equipment comprising:

communicating, by a communication unit, with a terminal based on a BLE scheme;

verifying, by a control unit, predetermined class information for the terminal in class information for each terminal pre-stored based on identification information of the terminal;

determining a number of channels of a plurality of pre-divided channels to be allocated to the terminal based on the class information;

allocating, by the control unit, the determined number of channels to the terminal; and

providing, by the control unit, a wireless charging function to the terminal with a wireless charging intensity corresponding to the allocated number of channels.