Dynamic current limiting charging circuit

• US 8,427,102 B2
• Filed: 12/17/2009
• Issued: 04/23/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Hanley, Michael, Anderson, Wayne
• Primary Examiner(s): Tso, Edward
• Assistant Examiner(s): BOATENG, ALEXIS ASIEDUA
• Application Number:
  US12/640,249
• Publication Number:
  US 20110151942A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,223 Days
• Field of Search: 320/107, 320/108, 320/109, 320/110, 320/112, 320/113, 320/114, 320/115, 320/127, 320/128, 320/129, 320/130, 320/131, 320/132, 320/133, 320/134, 320/135, 320/136, 320/137, 320/141, 320/145, 320/148, 320/149, 320/151, 320/152, 320/156, 320/160, 320/161, 320/157
• US Class Current: 320/108
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/10 using inductive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/80 involving the exchange of data, concerning supply or distribution of electric power, between transmitting devices and receiving devices
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00714 in response to battery charging or discharging current
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/04 Regulation of charging current or voltage

Abstract

An apparatus is provided for an electronic device. The apparatus includes a dynamic electrical load, a secondary power coil receiver module that inductively receives a current from a primary coil of an power conversion system, a means for monitoring a current in the secondary receiver module being delivered to the dynamic load, a means for transmitting a power control signal to the power conversion system through the secondary charging coil, a current monitoring circuit that measures a current delivered to the dynamic load and a current limiter circuit that limits the current to the dynamic load based upon the measured charging current.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

a secondary charging coil receiver module configured to inductively receive a current, where the current charges a battery and powers a cellular transceiver and where the current received by the secondary charging coil is received from a primary coil of a power conversion system;

a secondary power control processor that modulates a load to transmit charge control packets to a power control processor of the power conversion system through the primary coil;

a current processor that measures an average current delivered through the secondary charging coil to the battery and associated electronics powered by the battery, the average current delivered includes an average of charging current and a peak transmitter current, the current processor is configured to calculate a current limit threshold value from the average current, and the threshold value includes the average current plus a predetermined incremental value; and

a current limiter that limits the charge current to the battery and transceiver based upon the average current, the current limiter configured to substantially minimize the dynamic loading of the transceiver from corrupting a modulated load that provides transmit charge control packets to the primary coil.

2. The apparatus as in claim 1 further comprising a cellular telephone.

3. The apparatus as in claim 2 wherein the cellular telephone further comprises a GSM cellular telephone.

4. The apparatus as in claim 1 wherein the current limiter is at least one of active during charging and active during times of transmission of the charge control packets.

5. The apparatus as in claim 2 wherein the cellular telephone further comprises a time division multiplexed cellular telephone.

6. The apparatus as in claim 2 wherein the cellular telephone further comprises a GSM cellular telephone.

7. The apparatus as in claim 1 further comprising the power conversion system that inductively couples the current to the secondary charging coil receiver module.

8. The apparatus as in claim 1 further comprising a portable electronic device.

9. An apparatus comprising:

a power conversion system comprising a primary coil; and

a portable electronic device comprising;

a secondary charging coil receiver module configured to inductively receive a current that charges a battery, the battery powering a cellular transceiver and where the current received by the secondary charging coil is received from the primary coil of the power conversion system;

a secondary power control processor that modulates a load of the secondary charging coil presented to the primary coil in order to transmit charge control packets to a power control processor of the power conversion system;

a current processor that measures an average current delivered through the secondary charging coil to the battery and associated electronics powered by the battery, the average current delivered includes an average of charging current and a peak transmitter current, the current processor is configured to calculate a current limit threshold value from the average current, and the threshold value includes the average current plus a predetermined incremental value; and

a current limiter that limits the charge current to the battery and transceiver based upon the average current, the current limiter configured to substantially minimize the dynamic loading of the transceiver from corrupting a modulated load that provides transmit charge control packets to the primary coil.

10. The apparatus as in claim 9 wherein the portable electronic device further comprises a cellular telephone.

11. The apparatus as in claim 10 wherein the cellular telephone further comprises a GSM cellular telephone.

12. The apparatus as in claim 10 wherein the cellular telephone further comprises a time division multiplexed cellular telephone.

13. The apparatus as in claim 10 wherein the cellular telephone further comprises a GSM cellular telephone.