SENSOR-CONTROLLED FLUSHING DEVICE AND METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING POWER THEREOF

• US 20100026233A1
• Filed: 09/29/2008
• Published: 02/04/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Delta Electronics Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Delta Electronics Incorporated
• Inventors: Lee, Chi-Ching, Chang, Chih-Yuan
• Application Number:
  US12/240,808
• Publication Number:
  US 20100026233A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 320/101
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/35 with light sensitive cells

Abstract

A power managing system includes a battery, a solar cell, a detecting circuit and a control module. The solar cell transforms a received light into a voltage and the battery is charged by the solar cell. The detecting circuit detects the voltage and correspondingly generates a detecting signal. The control module controls a pathway between the battery and the solar cell according to the detecting signal.

Claims

1. A power managing system comprising:

a battery;

a solar cell transforming a received light into a voltage;

a detecting circuit detecting the voltage and correspondingly generating a detecting signal; and

a control module controlling a pathway between the battery and the solar cell according to the detecting signal.

2. The power managing system according to claim 1, further comprising a first switching element disposed between the battery and the solar cell, wherein the control module controlls the pathway between the battery and the solar cell through the first switching element.

3. The power managing system according to claim 1, wherein when the voltage is higher than a first default voltage, the control module activates the pathway between the solar cell and the battery so that the battery is charged by the solar cell, and when the voltage is lower than the first default voltage, the control module deactivates the pathway between the solar cell and the battery.

4. The power managing system according to claim 3, wherein when the voltage is lower than a second default voltage, the control module reactivates the pathway between the solar cell and the battery, and the second default voltage is lower than the first default voltage.

5. The power managing system according to claim 1, further comprising a diode disposed between the solar cell and the battery to prevent a reverse current from the battery to the solar cell.

6. The power managing system according to claim 1, further comprising a capacitor disposed between the solar cell and the battery for prestoring electric charge generated by the solar cell.

7. The power managing system according to claim 1, further comprising a second switching element disposed between the detecting circuit and the solar cell, wherein the detecting circuit periodically detects the voltage through the periodical activation of the second switching element controlled by the control module.

8. The power managing system according to claim 1, wherein the power managing system is applied to a solenoid valve device or a sensor-controlled flushing device.

9. The power managing system according to claim 1, wherein the control module is a logic circuit, a micro controller or an integrated circuit.

10. A power managing method comprising steps of:

providing a solar cell and a battery;

transforming a received light into a voltage through the solar cell;

detecting the voltage; and

deactivating the pathway between the battery and the solar cell when the voltage being lower than a first default voltage.

11. The power managing method according to claim 10, wherein when the voltage is higher than the first default voltage or lower than a second default voltage, the pathway between the battery and the solar cell is reactivated;

when the voltage is smaller than the second default voltage, the pathway between the battery and the solar cell is activated, wherein the second default voltage is lower than the first default voltage.

12. A sensor-controlled flushing device comprising:

a battery;

a solenoid valve powered by the battery;

a solar cell transforming a received light into a voltage;

a detecting circuit detecting the voltage and generating a detecting signal;

a sensor detecting an ambient parameter; and

a control module controlling a pathway between the battery and the solar cell according to the detecting signal and an activation of the solenoid valve according to the ambient parameter.

13. The sensor-controlled flushing device according to claim 12, further comprising a first switching element disposed between the battery and the solar cell, wherein the control module controlls the pathway between the battery and the solar cell through the first switching element.

14. The sensor-controlled flushing device according to claim 12, wherein when the voltage is higher a first default voltage, the control module activates the pathway between the solar cell and the battery so that the battery is charged by the solar cell, and when the voltage is lower than the first default voltage, the control module deactivates the pathway between the solar cell and the battery.

15. The sensor-controlled flushing device according to claim 14, wherein when the voltage is lower than a second default voltage, the control module reactivates the pathway between the solar cell and the battery, and the second default voltage is lower than the first default voltage.

16. The sensor-controlled flushing device according to claim 12, further comprising a diode disposed between the solar cell and the battery to prevent a reverse current from the battery to the solar cell.

17. The sensor-controlled flushing device according to claim 12, further comprising a capacitor disposed between the solar cell and the battery for prestoring electric charge generated by the solar cell.

18. The sensor-controlled flushing device according to claim 12, further comprising a second switching element disposed between the detecting circuit and the solar cell, wherein the detecting circuit periodically detects the voltage through the periodical activation of the second switching element controlled by the control module.

19. The sensor-controlled flushing device according to claim 12, wherein the control module is a logic circuit, a micro controller or an integrated circuit, and the sensor is an infrared ray sensor.

20. The sensor-controlled flushing device according to claim 12, wherein the sensor detects whether a user exists around the sensor-controlled flushing device or not and generates the ambient parameter.