CHARGING SYSTEM AND CHARGING METHOD, AND POWER ADAPTER

• US 20180062413A1
• Filed: 11/03/2017
• Published: 03/01/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/05/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corporation Limited
• Original Assignee: Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corporation Limited
• Inventors: ZHANG, Jialiang, TIAN, Chen, ZHANG, Jun, CHEN, Shebiao, WAN, Shiming, LI, Jiada
• Granted Patent: US 10,122,201 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/2874 related to temperature
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 2027/408 Association with diode or rectifier
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 27/425 for voltage transformers
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/0525 Rocking-chair batteries, i.e. batteries with lithium insertion or intercalation in both electrodes; Lithium-ion batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/4257 Smart batteries, e.g. electronic circuits inside the housing of the cells or batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2207/10 Control circuit supply, e.g. means for supplying power to the control circuit
• 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 7/00036 Charger exchanging data with battery
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00043 using switches, contacts or markings, e.g. optical, magnetic or barcode
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0013 acting upon several batteries simultaneously or sequentially H02J7/1423 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0042 characterised by the mechanical construction
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0044 specially adapted for holding portable devices containing batteries H02J7/0045 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0045 concerning the insertion or the connection of the batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0047 with monitoring or indicating devices or circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0048 Detection of remaining charge capacity or state of charge [SOC]
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0049 Detection of fully charged condition
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0071 with a programmable schedule
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00711 with introduction of pulses during the charging process
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00712 : the cycle being controlled or terminated in response to electric parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00714 : in response to battery charging or discharging current
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/007182 : in response to battery voltage
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/007192 : in response to temperature
• 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: H02J 7/06 : using discharge tubes or semiconductor devices
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/1492 : by means of controlling devices between the generator output and the battery
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/2434 : with pulse modulation
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/0009 : Devices or circuits for detecting current in a converter
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/0048 : Circuits or arrangements for reducing losses using snubbers H02M1/34
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/08 : Circuits specially adapted for the generation of control voltages for semiconductor devices incorporated in static converters
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/156 : with automatic control of output voltage or current, e.g. switching regulators
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/33507 : with automatic control of the output voltage or current, e.g. flyback converters H02M3/33561, H02M3/33569 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/33515 : with digital control
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/33523 : with galvanic isolation between input and output of both the power stage and the feedback loop
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/33546 : with automatic control of the output voltage or current H02M3/33561 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 5/458 : using semiconductor devices only
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 7/06 : using discharge tubes without control electrode or semiconductor devices without control electrode
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/00 : Current supply arrangements for telephone systems for selecting-equipment H04Q1/28
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 : in wireless communication networks

Abstract

The present disclosure discloses a charging system, a charging method and a power adapter. The system includes a battery, a first rectifier, a switch unit, a transformer, a compositing unit, a sampling unit, and a control unit. The control unit outputs a control signal to the switch unit, and adjusts a duty ratio of the control signal according to a voltage sampling value and/or a current sampling value obtained by primary sampling of the sampling unit, such that a second alternating current outputted by the compositing unit meets a charging requirement. The second alternating current is applied to the battery.

Claims

1. A power adapter, comprising:

a first rectifier, configured to rectify a first alternating current and output a first voltage with a first ripple waveform;

a switch unit, configured to modulate the first voltage according to a control signal and output a modulated first voltage;

a transformer, configured to output a plurality of voltages with ripple waveforms according to the modulated first voltage;

a compositing unit, configured to composite the plurality of voltages to output a second alternating current, wherein, for each cycle of the second alternating current, a peak voltage of a positive half is greater than an absolute value of a valley voltage of a negative half;

a first charging interface, coupled to an output end of the compositing unit, and configured to apply the second alternating current to a battery in a terminal via a second charging interface of the terminal when the first charging interface is coupled to the second charging interface, in which the second charging interface is coupled to the battery;

a sampling unit, configured to sample voltage and/or current at a primary winding of the transformer to obtain a voltage sampling value and/or a current sampling value;

a control unit, coupled to the sampling unit and the switch unit respectively, and configured to output the control signal to the switch unit, and to adjust a duty ratio of the control signal according to the current sampling value and/or the voltage sampling value, such that the second alternating current meets a charging requirement of the terminal.

2. The power adapter according to claim 1, wherein the transformer comprises the primary winding, a first secondary winding and a second secondary winding, a first end of the primary winding is coupled to a first output end of the first rectifier, a second end of the primary winding is coupled to the switch unit, the first secondary winding and the second secondary winding both are coupled to the compositing unit, and the transformer is configured to output a second voltage with a second ripple waveform via the first secondary winding according to the modulated first voltage, and to output a third voltage with a third ripple waveform via the second secondary winding according to the modulated first voltage;

wherein the compositing unit is configured to composite the second voltage and the third voltage to output the second alternating current.

3. The power adapter according to claim 1, wherein the control unit is further configured to adjust a frequency of the control signal according to the voltage sampling value and/or the current sampling value.

4. The power adapter according to claim 1, wherein the control unit is coupled to the first charging interface, and is further configured to communicate with the terminal via the first charging interface so as to obtain status information of the terminal;

wherein the control unit is further configured to adjust the duty ratio of the control signal according to the voltage sampling value and/or the current sampling value and the status information of the terminal.

5. The power adapter according to claim 1, further comprising:

a driving unit, coupled between the switch unit and the control unit, and configured to drive the switch unit to switch on or off according to the control signal; and

an isolation unit, coupled between the driving unit and the control unit.

6. The power adapter according to claim 5, further comprising:

an auxiliary winding, configured to generate a fourth voltage with a fourth ripple waveform according to the modulated first voltage; and

a power supply unit, coupled to the auxiliary winding, and configured to convert the fourth voltage and output a first direct current, so as to supply power to the driving unit and/or the control unit respectively.

7. The power adapter according to claim 6, further comprising:

a first voltage detecting unit, coupled to the auxiliary winding and the control unit respectively, and configured to detect the fourth voltage to generate a voltage detecting value, wherein the control unit is further configured to adjust the duty ratio of the control signal according to the voltage detecting value.

8. The power adapter according to claim 1, wherein a working frequency of the transformer ranges from 50 KHz to 2 MHz.

9. The power adapter according to claim 1, wherein the sampling unit comprises:

a first current sampling circuit, configured to sample the current at the primary winding so as to obtain the current sampling value; and

a first voltage sampling circuit, configured to sample the voltage at the primary winding so as to obtain the voltage sampling value.

10. The power adapter according to claim 9, wherein the first voltage sampling circuit comprises:

a peak voltage sampling and holding unit, configured to sample and hold a peak voltage of the modulated first voltage;

a cross-zero sampling unit, configured to sample a zero crossing point of the modulated first voltage;

a leakage unit, configured to perform a leakage on the peak voltage sampling and holding unit at the zero crossing point; and

an AD sampling unit, configured to sample the peak voltage in the peak voltage sampling and holding unit so as to obtain the voltage sampling value.

11. The power adapter according to claim 1, further comprising:

a second voltage sampling circuit, configured to sample the first voltage, and coupled to the control unit, wherein the control unit is configured to control the switch unit to switch on for a first predetermined time period for discharging when a voltage value sampled by the second voltage sampling circuit is greater than a first predetermined voltage value.

12. The power adapter according to claim 1, wherein the first charging interface comprises:

a power wire, configured to charge the battery; and

a data wire, configured to communicate with the terminal when the power adapter is coupled to the terminal via the first charging interface;

wherein the control unit is configured to communicate with the terminal via the first charging interface to determine a charging mode, in which the charging mode comprises a fast charging mode and a normal charging mode.

13. The power adapter according to claim 12, further comprising:

a rectifying and filtering unit, configured to rectify and filter one of the plurality of voltages and output a second direct current; and

a controllable switch, configured to control an operation of the rectifying and filtering unit;

wherein,

the control unit is further configured to, when determining the charging mode as the normal charging mode, control the rectifying and filtering unit to work by controlling the controllable switch and control the compositing unit to stop working, such that the rectifying and filtering unit outputs the second direct current to charge the battery;

when determining the charging mode as the fast charging mode, control the rectifying and filtering unit to stop working by controlling the controllable switch and control the compositing unit to work, such that the second alternating current is applied to the battery.

14. The power adapter according to claim 12, wherein the control unit is further configured to obtain a charging current and/or a charging voltage corresponding to the fast charging mode according to the status information of the terminal, and to adjust the duty ratio of the control signal according to the charging current and/or the charging voltage corresponding to the fast charging mode, when determining the charging mode as the fast charging mode.

15. The power adapter according to claim 14, wherein the status information of the terminal comprises a temperature of the battery, wherein when the temperature of the battery is greater than a first predetermined temperature threshold or the temperature of the battery is less than a second predetermined temperature threshold, the fast charging mode is switched to the normal charging mode when a current charging mode is the fast charging mode, in which the first predetermined temperature threshold is greater than the second predetermined temperature threshold;

wherein the control unit is further configured to control the switch unit to switch off when the temperature of the battery is greater than a predetermined temperature protection threshold.

16. The power adapter according to claim 1, wherein the control unit is further configured to:

control the switch unit to switch off when the voltage sampling value is greater than a second predetermined voltage value;

or

control the switch unit to switch off when the current sampling value is greater than a predetermined current value.

17. The power adapter according to claim 15, wherein the control unit is further configured to obtain a temperature of the first charging interface, and to control the switch unit to switch off when the temperature of the first charging interface is greater than a predetermined protection temperature.

18. The power adapter according to claim 12, wherein when performing the bidirectional communication with the terminal via the data wire of the first charging interface to determine to charge the terminal in the fast charging mode,

the control unit is configured to send a first instruction to the terminal, in which the first instruction is configured to query the terminal whether to start the fast charging mode;

and

the control unit is configured to receive a first reply instruction from the terminal, in which the first reply instruction is configured to indicate that the terminal agrees to start the fast charging mode.

19. The power adapter according to claim 18, wherein, before the control unit sends the first instruction to the terminal, the power adapter is configured to charge the terminal in the normal charging mode, and the control unit is configured to send the first instruction to the terminal when determining that a charging duration of the normal charging mode is greater than a predetermined threshold.

20. The power adapter according to claim 18, wherein the control unit is further configured to control the power adapter to adjust a charging current to a charging current corresponding to the fast charging mode by controlling the switch unit, and before the power adapter charges the terminal with the charging current corresponding to the fast charging mode, the control unit is configured to perform the bidirectional communication with the terminal via the data wire of the first charging interface to determine a charging voltage corresponding to the fast charging mode, and to control the power adapter to adjust a charging voltage to the charging voltage corresponding to the fast charging mode.

21. The power adapter according to claim 20, wherein when performing the bidirectional communication with the terminal via the data wire of the first charging interface to determine the charging voltage corresponding to the fast charging mode,

the control unit is configured to send a second instruction to the terminal, in which the second instruction is configured to query whether a current output voltage of the power adapter is suitable for being used as the charging voltage corresponding to the fast charging mode;

the control unit is configured to receive a second reply instruction sent from the terminal, in which the second reply instruction is configured to indicate that the current output voltage of the power adapter is suitable, high or low; and

the control unit is configured to determine the charging voltage corresponding to the fast charging mode according to the second reply instruction.

22. The power adapter according to claim 20, wherein, before controlling the power adapter to adjust the charging current to the charging current corresponding to the fast charging mode, the control unit is further configured to perform the bidirectional communication with the terminal via the data wire of the first charging interface to determine the charging current corresponding to the fast charging mode;

wherein, when performing the bidirectional communication with the terminal via the data wire of the first charging interface to determine the charging current corresponding to the fast charging mode,

the control unit is configured to send a third instruction to the terminal, in which the third terminal is configured to query a maximum charging current supported by the terminal;

the control unit is configured to receive a third reply instruction sent from the terminal, in which the third reply instruction is configured to indicate the maximum charging current supported by the terminal; and

the control unit is configured to determine the charging current corresponding to the fast charging mode according to the third reply instruction.

23. The power adapter according to claim 18, wherein during a process that the power adapter charges the terminal in the fast charging mode, the control unit is further configured to perform the bidirectional communication with the terminal via the data wire of the first charging interface, so as to continuously adjust a charging current outputted to the battery from the power adapter by controlling the switch unit;

wherein, when performing the bidirectional communication with the terminal via the data wire of the first charging interface to continuously adjust the charging current outputted to the battery from the power adapter by controlling the switch unit,

the control unit is configured to send a fourth instruction to the terminal, in which the fourth instruction is configured to query a current voltage of the battery in the terminal;

the control unit is configured to receive a fourth reply instruction sent by the terminal, in which the fourth reply instruction is configured to indicate the current voltage of the battery in the terminal; and

the control unit is configured to adjust the charging current by controlling the switch unit according to the current voltage of the battery.

24. The power adapter according to claim 23, wherein the control unit is configured to adjust the charging current outputted to the battery from the power adapter to a charging current value corresponding to the current voltage of the battery by controlling the switch unit according to the current voltage of the battery and a predetermined correspondence between battery voltage values and charging current values.

25. The power adapter according to claim 23, wherein, during the process that the power adapter charges the terminal in the second charging mode, the control unit is further configured to determine whether there is a poor contact between the first charging interface and the second charging interface by performing the bidirectional communication with the terminal via the data wire of the first charging interface,

wherein, when determining that there is the poor contact between the first charging interface and the second charging interface, the control unit is configured to control the power adapter to quit the fast charging mode.

26. The power adapter according to claim 24, wherein, before determining whether there is a poor contact between the first charging interface and the second charging interface, the control unit is further configured to receive information indicating a path impedance of the terminal from the terminal, wherein

the control unit is configured to send a fourth instruction to the terminal, in which the fourth instruction is configured to query a current voltage of the battery in the terminal;

the control unit is configured to receive a fourth reply instruction sent by the terminal, in which the fourth reply instruction is configured to indicate the current voltage of the battery in the terminal;

the control unit is configured to determine a path impedance from the power adapter to the battery according to an output voltage of the power adapter and the current voltage of the battery; and

the control unit is configured to determine whether there is the poor contact between the first charging interface and the second charging interface according to the path impedance from the power adapter to the battery, the path impedance of the terminal, and a path impedance of a charging wire between the power adapter and the terminal.

27. The power adapter according to claim 26, wherein, before the power adapter quits the fast charging mode, the control unit is further configured to send a fifth instruction to the terminal, in which the fifth instruction is configured to indicate that there is the poor contact between the first charging interface and the second charging interface.

28. A charging system for a terminal, comprising:

a power adapter, comprising;

a first rectifier, configured to rectify a first alternating current and output a first voltage with a first ripple waveform;

a switch unit, configured to modulate the first voltage according to a control signal and output a modulated first voltage;

a transformer, configured to output a plurality of voltages with ripple waveforms according to the modulated first voltage;

a compositing unit, configured to composite the plurality of voltages to output a second alternating current, wherein, for each cycle of the second alternating current, a peak voltage of a positive half is greater than an absolute value of a valley voltage of a negative half;

a first charging interface, coupled to an output end of the compositing unit;

a sampling unit, configured to sample voltage and/or current at a primary winding of the transformer to obtain a voltage sampling value and/or a current sampling value; and

a control unit, coupled to the sampling unit and the switch unit respectively, and configured to output the control signal to the switch unit, to adjust a duty ratio of the control signal according to the current sampling value and/or the voltage sampling value, such that the second alternating current meets a charging requirement of the terminal; and

the terminal, comprising a second charging interface and a battery, the second charging interface being coupled to the battery, wherein the second charging interface is configured to apply the second alternating current to the battery when the second charging interface is coupled to the first charging interface.

29. A charging method for a terminal, comprising:

when a first charging interface of a power adapter is coupled to a second charging interface of the terminal, performing a rectification on a first alternating current to output a first voltage with a first ripple waveform;

modulating the first voltage by controlling a switch unit, and outputting a plurality of voltages with ripple waveforms by a conversion of a transformer;

compositing the plurality of voltages to output a second alternating current, wherein, for each cycle of the second alternating current, a peak voltage of a positive half is greater than an absolute value of a valley voltage of a negative half;

applying the second alternating current to a battery of the terminal via the charging interface;

sampling voltage and/or current at a primary winding of the transformer to obtain a voltage sampling value and/or a current sampling value; and

adjusting a duty ratio of a control signal for controlling the switch unit according to the voltage sampling value and/or the current sampling value, such that the second alternating voltage meets a charging requirement.