USB CHARGING DEVICE

• US 20180102657A1
• Filed: 10/07/2016
• Published: 04/12/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Chia-Hua Lin
• Original Assignee: Chia-Hua Lin
• Inventors: Lin, Chia-Hua
• Granted Patent: US 10,069,316 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 33/04 Building blocks, strips, or similar building parts
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 33/042 Mechanical, electrical, optical, pneumatic or hydraulic arrangements; Motors
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/447 Shutter or cover plate
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 2103/00 Two poles
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 2107/00 Four or more poles
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/22 with additional earth or shield contacts
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/30 with additional earth or shield contacts
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/62 Sliding engagements with one side only, e.g. modular jack coupling devices
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 25/003 the coupling part being secured only to wires or cables
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 31/02 Intermediate parts for distributing energy to two or more circuits in parallel, e.g. splitter with a holder adapted for supporting apparatus to which its counterpart is attached H01R33/92
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 31/065 with built-in electric apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00 Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00304 Overcurrent protection
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0044 specially adapted for holding portable devices containing batteries H02J7/0045 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00718 in response to charge current gradient

Abstract

A USB charging device is disclosed, comprising a charging base and multiple USB chargers, in which the surface of the charging base is installed with several positioning slots and the bottom of the positioning slot has DC power output holes. In addition, the bottom of the USB charger is configured with a fixation bump fitting into the shape of the fixation slot, and conductive pillars extend from the fixation bump, while the other end of the USB charger includes a USB port for electrically connecting to a USB charging line. Herein the conductive pillars of the USB charger can be inserted into any one of the positioning DC output holes on the surface of the charging base such that DC power can be transferred to the USB port and thus further transferred to the electronic device via the USB charging line for power recharging.

Claims

1. A USB charging device, comprising:

a charging base which includes a case, and a plurality of fixation slots are configured on the top surface of the case, the bottom of the fixation slot is configured with a first plug-in hole, a second plug-in hole and a third plug-in hole, a charging circuit board is placed within the case and connected to the power line of an alternative current (AC) power source plug such that the charging circuit board can receive alternative current and convert the received AC power into direct current (DC) power so as to output to a first conductive component, a second conductive component and a third conductive component, wherein each of the first conductive component, the second conductive component and the third conductive component has a positioning hole respectively corresponding to the first plug-in hole, the second plug-in hole and the third plug-in, and the first conductive component and the third conductive component are connected to a first electrode of the DC power outputted by the charging circuit board, while the second conductive component connected to a second electrode of the DC power;

a USB charger, in which a surface of the USB charger is configured with a USB port and the other surface thereof configured with a fixation bump, and a first conductive pillar, a second conductive pillar and a third conductive pillar extend from the fixation bump, a USB circuit board is placed within the USB charger and includes a first electrode and a second electrode having DC power, wherein the first conductive pillar and the third conductive pillar are connected to the first electrode of the USB circuit board, while the second conductive pillar connected to the second electrode of the USB circuit board, also the first electrode and second electrode are both electrically connected to the USB port such that the DC power received by the USB charger can be transferred to the USB port for output;

additionally, the first electrode and the second electrode for outputting DC power from the USB charger and the charging base have the same polarity, so that the DC powers outputted by the first conductive pillar and the third conductive pillar as well as the first conductive component and the third conductive component are of the same electrode, while the DC powers outputted by the second conductive pillar and the second conductive component are of the same electrode;

wherein the first conductive pillar, the second conductive pillar and the third conductive pillar of the USB charger are respectively inserted into the first plug-in hole, the second plug-in hole and the third plug-in hole of the charging base, and at the same time also inserted into the positioning holes of the first conductive component, the second conductive component and the third conductive component, such that the first conductive pillar, the second conductive pillar and the third conductive pillar are electrically connected to the first conductive component, the second conductive component and the third conductive component respectively thereby outputting DC power to the USB port of the USB connector;

moreover, the fixation bump of the USB can be inserted into the fixation slot tightly fitted to the charging base thus firmly fixing the USB charger onto the charging base.

2. The USB charging device according to claim 1, wherein the charging circuit board mainly comprises an over-current protection circuit, a rectification filter circuit, an electro-magnetic interference (EMI) protection filter circuit, a procrastinated activation control circuit, an over-voltage detection circuit, a pulse width modulation (PWM) control power source circuit, a pulse width modulation (PWM) control circuit, a metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) circuit, an output current detection circuit, a transformer and an output rectification filter circuit;

also, wherein the over-current protection circuit is applied to receive AC power and protect the AC power output and line failures;

the rectification filter circuit is electrically connected to the over-current protection circuit and transforms the received AC power into DC power;

the EMI protection filter circuit receives signals from the rectification filter which can be a low-pass filter, thereby restricting high frequency noises and stabilizing the received DC power, and then transfers to the transformer and the procrastinated activation control circuit;

the procrastinated activation control circuit receives the signals from the EMI protection filter circuit and then provides the EMI control circuit with the procrastinated activation function thereby preventing unstable voltage output in case the input DC power has not been completely stabilized yet;

the transformer receives the EMI protection filter circuit signals and then transfers such signals to the PWM control power source circuit, the over-voltage detection circuit and the MOSFET circuit, and the over-voltage detection circuit receives the signals sent by the transformer and then controls the output voltage value of the output voltage so as to prevent the output voltage from becoming excessively high and transfers the processed signals to the PWM control circuit;

meanwhile, the PWM control power source circuit receives the signals from the transformer and then provides the PWM control circuit with DC voltage needed for operations in the PWM control circuit;

in addition, the PWM control circuit receives the signals coming from the procrastinated activation control circuit, the over-voltage detection circuit, the PWM control power source circuit and the output current detection circuit in order to transfer controlled stable output voltage and current into the MOSFET circuit;

afterwards, the MOSFET circuit receives the signals from the transformer thus controlling the output switch action time of the transformer, and is electrically connected to the output current detection circuit such that the output current detection circuit can perform detections on the output current and output over-current and then send the detection results to the PWM control circuit;

when the MOSFET circuit drives the transformer to output DC power, the signal of the DC power can be transferred to the output rectification filter circuit so that the output rectification filter circuit can rectify the pulse waveform signals from the transformer into the DC power output;

additionally, the outputted DC power includes a first electrode and a second electrode.

3. The USB charging device according to claim 2, wherein the first electrode is a positive electrode (Vcc) and the second electrode is a negative electrode (GND).

4. The USB charging device according to claim 2, wherein the first electrode is a negative electrode (GND) and the second electrode is a positive electrode (Vcc).

5. The USB charging device according to claim 1, wherein the first electrode of the DC power outputted by the charging circuit board and the USB charging board is the negative electrode (GND) and the second electrode thereof is the positive electrode (Vcc).

6. The USB charging device according to claim 1, wherein the first electrode of the DC power outputted by the charging circuit board and the USB charging board is the positive electrode (Vcc) and the second electrode thereof is the negative electrode (GND).

7. The USB charging device according to claim 1, wherein one side of the case of the charging base is configured with at least one or more AC power sockets which can be electrically connected to the power lines of the AC power plug such that the AC power sockets can provide electronic devices with AC power for applications.

8. The USB charging device according to claim 1, wherein multiple USB chargers may be simultaneously plugged onto the charging base with each of such USB chargers being able to fit into USB ports of different specifications.

9. The USB charging device according to claim 1, further comprising one or more compartment seats, wherein the bottom of the compartment seat is installed with a fixation bump which can be inserted into the fixation slot of the charging base such that the compartment seat can be fixed onto the fixation slot of the charging base in order to operate as an abutment compartment for an electronic device and to avoid exterior dusts thereby preventing alien objects or dusts from entering into the fixation slot.

10. The USB charging device according to claim 1, wherein the wall surface of the charging base where the fixation hole is not installed is alternatively configured with a building block bump for building block assemblage, and the fixation slot of the charging base can be combined with a building block as well so that, by way of such a combination with the building block, a specifically profiled compartment wall or exterior wall can be thus formed in order to allow stable abutments and placements of electronic devices.