Device of a micro mobile phone battery charger

• US 5,982,149 A
• Filed: 12/04/1998
• Issued: 11/09/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 11/26/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hung-Ming Shih
• Original Assignee: Hung-Ming Shih
• Inventors: Shih, Hung-Ming
• Primary Examiner(s): Wong, Peter S.
• Assistant Examiner(s): LUK, LAWRENCE W
• Application Number:
  US09/205,356
• Time in Patent Office: 340 Days
• Field of Search: 320/134, 320/138, 320/139
• US Class Current: 320/134
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/425 Structural combination with electronic components, e.g. electronic circuits integrated to the outside of the casing printed circuits H05K1/00
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2207/20 Charging or discharging characterised by the power electronics converter
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00308 Overvoltage protection
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0031 using battery or load disconnect circuits H02J9/002 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0042 characterised by the mechanical construction
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/02 for charging batteries from ac mains by converters
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3883 Arrangements for mounting batteries or battery chargers
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

A micro mobile phone battery charger for nickel hydrogen and lithium ion batteries, having advantages of high charging efficiency, quick charging, being adaptable for use with different voltages, and compactness. includes a casing, a rotary concealable charger plug, an internal circuit device, and battery terminals arranged to retain the battery in the housing and eliminate the need for lead wires. The internal circuit device, includes an overload, over-voltage protection circuit, an electromagnetic interference filter circuit, a voltage stabilizing circuit, an oscillation circuit, a direct current rectifying circuit, a car charge direct current input protection circuit, an alternating current filter circuit, a detection circuit, and an automatic power interruption system. The current is automatically adapted so that the input voltage range is from 90 to 250V to adapt to municipal currents of 110 to 240V and car charging.

Claims

1. A mobile phone battery charger, comprising:

a casing having opposite first and second sides;

a charger plug mounted to the first side of said casing and arranged to be rotated from a position in which the charger plug is concealed in said casing to a position in which the charger plug extends from the casing and therefore can be inserted into an electrical outlet through which alternating current is input to the charger;

a DC power input jack;

an internal circuit device connected to said charger plug and to said direct current input jack, and

battery contacts connected to said internal circuit device and extending from said second side of the casing, said contacts being arranged to engage terminals on a mobile phone battery pack in order to establish a charging connection between said internal circuit device and a battery in said battery pack when said battery pack is fitted between said contacts on said second side of the casing, wherein said internal circuit device comprises;

(A) AC power input means coupled to the charger plug for filtering and rectifying AC power input through said charger plug, said AC power input means comprising;

(a) an over-voltage protection circuit coupled to the charger plug, said over-voltage protection circuit;

(b) an electromagnetic interference filter coupled to the protection circuit and arranged to absorb high frequency transients resulting from electromagnetic interference;

(c) a voltage stabilizing circuit coupled to an output of the electromagnetic interference filter;

(d) a rectifying circuit coupled to the voltage stabilizing circuit;

(B) a common node connected to an output of said rectifying circuit and to said DC power input jack;

(C) a smoothing filter between said common node and said battery contacts and arranged to output a charging current to a battery connected to said battery contacts;

(D) a charge detection circuit also coupled to said battery contacts and arranged to detect whether a battery in said battery pack is fully charged; and

(E) a power interruption system connected to the charge detection circuit and arranged interrupt a supply of power from said smoothing filter to said battery contacts when said battery is fully charged.

2. A mobile phone battery charger as claimed in claim 1, wherein said over-voltage protection circuit includes a resistor connected to one of said prongs and a zener diode connected in parallel between said prongs and arranged to prevent excess voltages from being input through said prongs.

3. A mobile phone battery charger as claimed in claim 1, further comprising an oscillator circuit, and wherein said voltage stabilizing circuit includes a transistor switched on and off by an oscillator.

4. A mobile phone battery charger as claimed in claim 1, wherein said power interruption system comprises a silicon controlled rectifier device having a control input connected to an output of the charge detection circuit.

5. A mobile phone battery charger as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a diode connected between the DC current input jack and said common node to provide reverse voltage protection.