Electronic Device, Electronic System, and Control Method

• US 20140245038A1
• Filed: 08/12/2013
• Published: 08/28/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/22/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: TSUJI, Kazuhiko
• Application Number:
  US13/964,694
• Publication Number:
  US 20140245038A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 713/320
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/263 Arrangements for using multiple switchable power supplies, e.g. battery and AC G06F1/30 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3206 Monitoring of events, devices or parameters that trigger a change in power modality

Abstract

According to one embodiment, an electronic device to which an AC adaptor is attachable includes a detecting module and a control module. The detecting module detects whether the AC adaptor is attached to the electronic device. The control module controls suppression and non-suppression of power consumption of the electronic device depending upon whether the detecting module detects that the AC adaptor is attached to the electronic device.

Claims

1. An electronic device to which an AC adaptor is attachable, the device comprising:

a detecting module configured to detect whether the AC adaptor is attached to the device; and

a control module configured to control suppression and non-suppression of power consumption of the device depending upon whether the detecting module detects that the AC adaptor is attached to the device.

2. The device of claim 1, further comprising a first measuring module configured to measure power consumption of the device,

wherein the control module is configured to make the power consumption of the device less than a set value, when the detecting module detects that the AC adaptor is attached to the device, and the power consumption measured by the first measuring module exceeds the set value.

3. The device of claim 2, wherein the control module is configured to make the power consumption of the device less than the set value, when the detecting module detects that the AC adaptor is attached to the device, the device is in an ON state, and the power consumption measured by the first measuring module exceeds the set value.

4. The device of claim 2, further comprising a second measuring module configured to measure a temperature of the AC adaptor,

wherein the control module is configured to make the power consumption of the device less than the set value, when the detecting module detects that the AC adaptor is attached to the device, the temperature measured by the second measuring module exceeds a threshold, and the power consumption measured by the first measuring module exceeds the set value.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein

the AC adaptor comprises a thermistor to be connected to the device when the AC adaptor is attached to the device;

and

the detecting module is configured to detect whether the AC adaptor is attached to the device in accordance with whether the thermistor is connected.

6. A system comprising an AC adaptor, and an electronic device to which the AC adaptor is attachable, the device comprising:

a detecting module configured to detect whether the AC adaptor is attached to the device; and

a control module configured to control suppression and non-suppression of power consumption of the device depending upon whether the detecting module detects that the AC adaptor is attached to the device.

7. A control method of an electronic device to and from which an AC adaptor is attachable, comprising:

determining whether the AC adaptor is attached to the device; and

controlling suppression and non-suppression of power consumption of the device depending upon whether the AC adaptor is attached to the device.