CHARGING DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME

• US 20100109602A1
• Filed: 07/29/2009
• Published: 05/06/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/03/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Chi Mei Communication Systems Incorporated (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Chi Mei Communication Systems Incorporated (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: CHANG, CHIA-YUAN
• Application Number:
  US12/511,142
• Publication Number:
  US 20100109602A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 320/103
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00 Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/342 The other DC source being a battery actively interacting with the first one, i.e. battery to battery charging with circuits for polarity protection H02J7/0034

Abstract

A charging device includes a MPU, a control module, an interface module, a charging and discharging module, and a power storage module. The MPU, the control module, the interface module, the charging and discharging module, and the power storage module are connected in series. The charging and discharging module is also connected to the MPU. The interface module is configured for connecting the charging device to at least one other charging device. The control module confirms if the charging device is to be a host or a client, and controls the MPU to activate the host charging device to charge a connected client charging device.

Claims

1. A charging device, comprising:

a MPU;

a control module;

an interface module;

a charging and discharging module; and

a power storage module, wherein the MPU, the control module, the interface module, the charging and discharging module, and the power storage module are connected in series, the charging and discharging module also connected to the MPU;

the interface module is used to connect the charging device to at least one other charging device, the control module confirms if the charging device is to be a host or a client, and controls the MPU to activate the host charging device to charge a connected client charging device.

2. The charging device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the control module includes a host controller and a client controller, the host controller controls the power storage module to charge via the charging and discharging module, and the client controller controls the power storage module to discharge via the charging and discharging module.

3. The charging device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the interface module includes a USB interface for connecting to another charging device, a USB transceiver for sending data, and a detecting module for detecting the host charging device and the client charging device.

4. The charging device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the USB interface includes a V_BUS pin for inputting/outputting power, a ID pin for confirming the charging device is a host or a client, a D+ pin and a D−

pin for sending data, and a GND pin connected to a ground.

5. The charging device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a connecting device one end of the connecting device is connected to the USB interface of the host charging device, another end of the connecting device is connected to the USB interface of the client charging devices.

6. A charging method, comprising:

providing at least two charging devices mounted in different portable electronic devices;

establishing a connection among the charging devices;

confirming the host charging device and the client charging device; and

the host charging device charges the client charging device.

7. The charging method as claimed in claim 6, further comprising setting a host charging device and at least one client charging device after establishing a connection among the charging devices.

8. The charging method as claimed in claim 6, further comprising the client charging device sending the ID signals to the host charging device before confirming the host charging devices and the client charging device.

9. The charging method as claimed in claim 6, further comprising:

connecting the charging devices directly to each other when the number of the charging devices is two.

10. The charging method as claimed in claim 6, further comprising:

connecting the charging devices via a connecting device when there are more than two charging devices.