Power adapter and mobile terminal

• US 10,673,261 B2
• Filed: 06/24/2019
• Issued: 06/02/2020
• 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: Zeng, Yuanqing
• Primary Examiner(s): Fantu, Yalkew
• Application Number:
  US16/450,791
• Publication Number:
  US 20190312446A1
• Time in Patent Office: 344 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

The present disclosure provides a power adapter and a terminal. The power adapter is coupled to a mobile terminal via a USB interface, and a data line of the USB interface is used for a bidirectional communication between the power adapter and the mobile terminal. The power adapter supports a normal charging mode and a quick charging mode, and a charging current of the quick charging mode is greater than a charging current of the normal charging mode. The method includes: communicating, by the power adapter, with the mobile terminal via the data line of the USB interface, 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 be the charging current of the quick charging mode to charge the mobile terminal.

Claims

1. A charging method comprising:

conducting a bidirectional communication between a power supply device and a terminal via a Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface to determine to charge the terminal in a charging mode;

conducting a bidirectional communication between the power supply device and the terminal to determine an output voltage of the power supply device as a charging voltage of the charging mode when a difference between the output voltage of the power supply device and a current voltage of a battery of the terminal is within a predetermined range;

conducting a bidirectional communication between the power supply device and the terminal to determine a charging current of the charging mode, and adjusting an output current of the power supply device to be the charging current of the charging mode; and

conducting a bidirectional communication between the power supply device and the terminal via the USB interface every preset time interval during the process that the terminal is charged in the charging mode, so as to adjust the output current of the power supply device every preset time interval, wherein for each adjustment of the output current of the power supply device, a difference between the output current of the power supply device after adjustment and the output current of the power supply device before adjustment is within a preset range.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein conducting the bidirectional communication between the power supply device and the terminal via the USB interface to determine to charge the terminal in the charging mode comprises:

transmitting an instruction from the power supply device to the terminal, wherein the instruction is used for querying the terminal for whether to activate the charging mode; and

receiving a reply instruction from the terminal, wherein the reply instruction is used for indicating that the terminal agrees to activate the charging mode.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

transmitting the instruction to the terminal in response to that duration of using another charging mode to charge the terminal exceeds a preset threshold, a speed of charging the terminal in the charging mode being higher than a speed of charging the terminal in the other charging mode.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

conducting a bidirectional communication between the power supply device and the terminal via the USB interface during the process that the power supply device charges the terminal in the charging mode to determine whether the USB interface is in bad contact; and

exiting the charging mode in response to that the USB interface is in bad contact.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

receiving an indication for indicating a path impedance of the terminal from the terminal;

transmitting an instruction from the power supply device to the terminal, wherein the instruction is used for querying a voltage of a battery of the terminal;

receiving a reply instruction from the terminal, wherein the reply instruction is used for indicating the voltage of the battery of the terminal;

determining a path impedance from the power supply device to the battery according to an output voltage of the power supply device and the voltage of the battery; and

determining whether the USB interface is in bad contact according to the path impedance from the power supply device to the battery, the path impedance of the terminal, and a path impedance of a charging circuit between the power supply device and the terminal.

6. A charging method comprising:

conducting a handshake communication between a power supply device and a terminal via a first instruction to determine to activate a charging mode;

conducting a handshake communication between the power supply device and the terminal via a second instruction to determine an output voltage of the power supply device as a charging voltage of the charging mode when a difference between the output voltage of the power supply device and a current voltage of a battery of the terminal is within a predetermined range;

conducting a handshake communication between the power supply device and the terminal via a third instruction to determine a charging current of the charging mode;

adjusting an output current of the power supply device to be the charging current of the charging mode; and

conducting a handshake communication between the power supply device and the terminal via a fourth instruction every preset time interval during the process that the terminal is charged in the charging mode, so as to adjust the output current of the power supply device every preset time interval, wherein for each adjustment of the output current of the power supply device, a difference between the output current of the power supply device after adjustment and the output current of the power supply device before adjustment is within a preset range.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein conducting the handshake communication between the power supply device and the terminal via the first instruction to determine to activate the charging mode comprises:

transmitting the first instruction from the power supply device to the terminal, wherein the instruction is used for querying the terminal for whether to activate the charging mode;

receiving a reply instruction for the first instruction from the terminal; and

determining to activate the charging mode in response to that the reply instruction for the first instruction indicates that the terminal agrees to activate the charging mode.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the reply instruction for the first instruction contains impedance information for indicating a path impedance of the terminal, wherein the impedance information is used for determining whether a USB interface is in bad contact.

9. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

determining that the terminal has recognized a type of the power supply device in response to that within a preset time length an output current to the terminal is higher than or equal to a preset current threshold; and

transmitting the first instruction to the terminal in response to that the terminal has recognized the type of the power supply device.

10. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

determining a time length of the handshake communication based on the second instruction;

determining that the handshake communication based on the second instruction is abnormal in response to that the time length is longer than a preset time length threshold; and

redetermining whether to activate the charging mode in response to that the handshake communication based on the second instruction is abnormal.

11. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

receiving an indication for indicating a path impedance of the terminal from the terminal;

determining an impedance of a charging circuit from the power supply device to a battery of the terminal according to the output voltage of the power supply device and the current voltage of the battery;

determining whether a USB interface is in bad contact according to the impedance of the charging circuit from the power supply device to the battery, the path impedance of the terminal, and a path impedance of a charging circuit between the power supply device and the terminal; and

redetermining whether to activate the charging mode in response to that the USB interface is in bad contact.

12. A power supply device comprising:

at least one processor; and

a computer readable memory, coupled to the at least one processor and storing at least one computer executable instruction therein which, when executed by the at least one processor, causes the at least one processor to perform acts comprising;

conducting a bidirectional communication with a terminal via a Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface to determine to charge the terminal in a charging mode;

conducting a bidirectional communication with the terminal to determine an output voltage of the power supply device as a charging voltage of the charging mode when a difference between the output voltage of the power supply device and a current voltage of a battery of the terminal is within a predetermined range;

conducting a bidirectional communication with the terminal to determine a charging current of the charging mode, and adjusting an output current of the power supply device to be the charging current of the charging mode; and

conducting a bidirectional communication with the terminal via the USB interface every preset time interval during the process that the terminal is charged in the charging mode, so as to adjust the output current of the power supply device every preset time interval, wherein for each adjustment of the output current of the power supply device, a difference between the output current of the power supply device after adjustment and the output current of the power supply device before adjustment is within a preset range.

13. The power supply device of claim 12, wherein the at least one processor carrying out the action of conducting the bidirectional communication between the power supply device and the terminal via the USB interface to determine to charge the terminal in the charging mode is caused to carry out actions, comprising:

transmitting an instruction from the power supply device to the terminal, wherein the instruction is used for querying the terminal for whether to activate the charging mode; and

receiving a reply instruction from the terminal, wherein the reply instruction is used for indicating that the terminal agrees to activate the charging mode.

14. The power supply device of claim 13, wherein the at least one computer executable instruction is further caused the at least one processor to carry out an action, comprising:

transmitting the instruction to the terminal in response to that duration of using another charging mode to charge the terminal exceeds a preset threshold, a speed of charging the terminal in the charging mode being higher than a speed of charging the terminal in the other charging mode.

15. The power supply device of claim 12, wherein the at least one computer executable instruction is further caused the at least one processor to carry out actions, comprising:

conducting a bidirectional communication between the power supply device and the terminal via the USB interface during the process that the power supply device charges the terminal in the charging mode to determine whether the USB interface is in bad contact; and

exiting the charging mode in response to that the USB interface is in bad contact.

16. The power supply device of claim 15, wherein the at least one computer executable instruction is further caused the at least one processor to carry out an action, comprising:

receiving an indication for indicating a path impedance of the terminal from the terminal;

transmitting an instruction from the power supply device to the terminal, wherein the instruction is used for querying a voltage of a battery of the terminal;

receiving a reply instruction from the terminal, wherein the reply instruction is used for indicating the voltage of the battery of the terminal;

determining a path impedance from the power supply device to the battery according to an output voltage of the power supply device and the voltage of the battery; and

determining whether the USB interface is in bad contact according to the path impedance from the power supply device to the battery, the path impedance of the terminal, and a path impedance of a charging circuit between the power supply device and the terminal.