Mobile telephone battery power supply unit with power detection and discharge circuit

• US 5,223,780 A
• Filed: 07/14/1992
• Issued: 06/29/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 07/14/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Stephen Hu
• Original Assignee: Stephen Hu
• Inventors: Hu, Stephen
• Primary Examiner(s): Hickey, R. J.
• Application Number:
  US07/912,979
• Time in Patent Office: 350 Days
• Field of Search: 320/13, 320/14, 320/2
• US Class Current: 320/112
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/44 Methods for charging or discharging circuits for charging H02J7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/213 adapted for cells having curved cross-section, e.g. round or elliptic H01M50/209, H01M50/216 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0042 characterised by the mechanical construction
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0262 for a battery compartment
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 320/16 Removal of memory effect in batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 320/21 State of charge of battery

Abstract

A mobile telephone battery power supply unit consisted of a housing covered with a slide cover to hold an electronic circuit assembly and battery case on the inside. The electronic circuit assembly includes a charging circuit controlled to recharge the rechargeable battery of a mobile telephone, a power detection circuit controlled to detect the current power level of the rechargeable battery of the mobile telephone, and a discharge circuit controlled to discharge the residual voltage out of the rechargeable battery of the mobile telephone before each recharging operation so as to eliminate possible "memory effect", which prohibits the rechargeable battery from being fully charged to the saturation state. The battery case receives alkaline batteries, which keep providing a constant voltage to the mobile telephone for normal operation as the rechargeable battery of the mobile telephone fails.

Claims

1. A mobile telephone battery power supply unit comprising:

a housing, said housing comprising a plurality of recessed, paralleled, anti-skid stripes over a front panel thereof, said front panel having a plurality of contacts connected to a power socket on a bottom end thereof, a semi-circular opening on a top end thereof, a mount on the inside adjacent to the bottom end, said mount comprising a retaining hole on a top edge thereof, two opposite grooves on two opposite sides and a plurality of contacts respectively connected to the contacts on said front panel, a storage chamber and a retaining chamber divided by a division wall, said storage chamber comprising a plurality of spaced posts, and two substantially L-shaped peripheral bottom edges on two opposite sides, said two substantially L-shaped peripheral bottom edges comprising each a plurality of inwards projecting strips with retaining slots;

an electronic circuit assembly consisted of a charging circuit, a discharge circuit and an oscillator circuit respectively mounted on a circuit board, said circuit board fitted into said storage chamber and having holes into which said posts of said storage chamber insert respectively;

a battery case fitted into said storage chamber above said electronic circuit assembly, said battery case comprising two parallel battery channels which receive batteries, said parallel battery channels having each two conductive elements on two opposite ends, the two conductive elements on one end being connected by a thermoelement, said thermoelement being electrically disconnected as the temperature surpassed a predetermined range;

a cover covered on said housing over said battery case, said cover comprising a circular plug portion on one end inserted into said retaining chamber between said semi-circular opening and said division wall, a unitary hook on an opposite end hooked in the retaining hole on said mount, and two symmetrical stepped flanges on two opposite sides, said stepped flanges comprising each an upper flange and a lower flange, said upper flange having a plurality of spaced notches for fastening a mobile telephone, said lower flange having a plurality of projecting strips with retaining slots respectively hooked up with the projecting strips and the retaining slots on said peripheral bottom edges of said housing; and

wherein said circuit board of said electronic circuit assembly has a set of indicator lamps, a power detection micro-switch and a discharge control micro-switch respectively disposed below a power-indication scale, a power detection control button and a discharge control button on the front panel of said housing for zero power indication, power detection control and mobile telephone rechargeable battery discharge control respectively.

2. The mobile telephone battery power supply unit according to claim 1, wherein said electronic circuit assembly is consisted of a driving circuit, a discharge circuit and an oscillator circuit, said driving circuit being connected to a set of light emitting diodes through an external voltage, said driving circuit having pins connected in parallel, and then connected to a first resistor, the base of a n-p-n transistor and said power detection micro-switch, a pin connected to the variable terminal of a variable resistor to provide a set voltage for comparison with said external voltage, said variable resistor having an opposite end connected in parallel to pins of said driving circuit and also connected to said resistor, the base of said n-p-n transistor and said power detection micro-switch, said first resistor and the collector of said n-p-n transistor being connected to said external voltage, the emitter of said n-p-n transistor being connected to the positive terminal of a thyristor, the gate pulse terminal and negative terminal of said thyristor being respectively connected to said external voltage via said discharge control micro-switch and said oscillator circuit via said discharge circuit, the earth terminal of said oscillator circuit being connected to the negative terminal of one of said light emitting diodes via a n-p-n transistor.