Bidirectional wireless charging/discharging device for portable electronic device

• US 9,118,193 B2
• Filed: 10/10/2012
• Issued: 08/25/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ming-Hsiang Yeh
• Original Assignee: Ming-Hsiang Yeh
• Inventors: Yeh, Ming-Hsiang
• Primary Examiner(s): Rossoshek, Helen
• Application Number:
  US13/648,422
• Publication Number:
  US 20140097790A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,049 Days
• Field of Search: 320/108, 320/112, 320/118, 307/104
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 38/14 Inductive couplings for wireless supply or distribution of electric power using inductive coupling H02J50/10
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2207/20 Charging or discharging characterised by the power electronics converter
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/10 using inductive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00302 Overcharge protection
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00306 Overdischarge protection
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00309 Overheat or overtemperature protection
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/007182 in response to battery voltage
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/007192 in response to temperature
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/1582 Buck-boost converters H02M3/1584 takes precedence

Abstract

A bidirectional wireless charging/discharging device for the portable electronic device includes a logic control unit, a boost/buck unit, first and second reverse current suppressors, a control switch, and a receipt/transmission mode selection unit. The logic control unit includes an automatic mode selection resetting module. The reverse current suppressor provide function of reverse current prevention and switching. The boost/buck unit controls stepping up/down of voltage in a charging operation. The logic control unit detects if a load exists and controls the operations of the boost/buck unit and the reverse current suppressor and is used in combination with the control switch to control the performance of charging or discharging and is further used in combination with the receipt or transmission mode selection unit to select a desired mode of operation. The receipt/transmission mode selection unit is electrically connected to automatic mode selection resetting module.

Claims

1. A bidirectional wireless charging/discharging device, which is adapted to be used in a portable electronic device comprising a circuit device, wherein the circuit device is electrically connected to a power receiving terminal and an electrical cell, the bidirectional wireless charging/discharging device comprising:

a logic control unit, which comprises an automatic mode selection resetting module and a plurality of pins;

a wireless receiving/transmitting unit, which comprises a transmission terminal and a receipt terminal, the receipt terminal being electrically connected to a detection pin of the logic control unit;

a boost/buck unit, which comprises a first voltage regulation terminal, a second voltage regulation terminal, and two control terminals, the second voltage regulation terminal being electrically connected to the transmission terminal of the wireless receiving/transmitting unit, the two control terminals being respectively and electrically connected to first and second control pins of the logic control unit, the logic control unit having a power pin electrically connected to the second voltage regulation terminal and the transmission terminal that are connected to each other;

a first reverse current suppressor, which comprises an input terminal, an output terminal, and a control terminal, the input terminal and the output terminal being respectively and electrically connected to a discharging terminal of the electrical cell and the first voltage regulation terminal of the boost/buck unit, the control terminal being electrically connected to a third control pin of the logic control unit;

a control switch, which has an end electrically connected to the discharging terminal of the electrical cell and an opposite end electrically connected to the control terminal of the first reverse current suppressor and the third control pin of the logic control unit;

a second reverse current suppressor, which comprises an input terminal, an output terminal, and a control terminal, the output terminal and the input terminal being respectively and electrically connected to the power receiving terminal of the circuit device and the first voltage regulation terminal of the boost/buck unit, the control terminal being electrically connected to a fifth control pin of the logic control unit; and

a receipt or transmission mode selection unit, which is electrically connected between a receipt or transmission mode detection pin of the logic control unit and the discharging terminal of the electrical cell, the receipt or transmission mode detection pin being electrically connected to the automatic mode selection resetting module;

wherein the automatic mode selection resetting module determines to resume the originally set receipt mode or the originally set transmission mode according to a predetermined period.

2. The bidirectional wireless charging/discharging device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the receipt or transmission mode selection unit comprises one of a receipt or transmission mode selection switch and a receipt or transmission mode selection signal.

3. The bidirectional wireless charging/discharging device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the circuit device comprises a protection circuit, the protection circuit being electrically connected between the electrical cell and the power receiving terminal.

4. The bidirectional wireless charging/discharging device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the boost/buck unit comprises synchronous rectification that is MOSFET based synchronous rectification.

5. The bidirectional wireless charging/discharging device as claimed in claim 4, wherein the boost/buck unit that comprises synchronous rectification comprise an inductor and two MOSFETs serially connected in the same direction, the two MOSFETs each comprising a control terminal, the two the control terminals being respectively and electrically connected to the two control terminals of the boost/buck unit, the two serially-connected MOSFETs having a terminal electrically connected to the second voltage regulation terminal and an opposite terminal grounded, he inductor having a terminal electrically connected to the first voltage regulation terminal and an opposite terminal electrically connected between the two MOSFETs.

6. The bidirectional wireless charging/discharging device as claimed in claim 1 further comprising a third reverse current suppressor, which comprises an input terminal, an output terminal, and a control terminal, the output terminal and the input terminal of the third reverse current suppressor being respectively and electrically connected to the power receiving terminal of the circuit device and the output terminal of the second reverse current suppressor, the control terminal of the third reverse current suppressor being electrically connected to a sixth control pin of the logic control unit.

7. The bidirectional wireless charging/discharging device as claimed in claim 6, wherein each of the reverse current suppressors comprises a first resistor and two MOSFETs that are serially connected in opposite directions, the two serially-connected MOSFETs having two terminal serving as the input terminal and the output terminal of the reverse current suppressor, the two MOSFETs each having a control terminal , the two control terminals being electrically connected to the control terminal of the reverse current suppressor, the first resistor having an end electrically connected between the two MOSFETs and an opposite end electrically connected to the control terminal of the reverse current suppressor.

8. The bidirectional wireless charging/discharging device as claimed in claim 7, wherein each of the reverse current suppressors further comprises a transistor and a second resistor, the transistor having a first terminal electrically connected to the control terminals of the two MOSFETs and a second terminal grounded, the second resistor being electrically connected between a third terminal of the transistor and the control terminal of the reverser current suppressor.

9. The bidirectional wireless charging/discharging device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the logic control unit has a fourth control pin is electrically connected in a circuit form to the third control pin.

10. The bidirectional wireless charging/discharging device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the control switch comprises an automatic return switch.

11. The bidirectional wireless charging/discharging device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the receipt or transmission mode selection switch comprises a diode and a third resistor electrically connected thereto at an upstream side and the receipt or transmission mode selection switch comprises a fourth resistor electrically connected thereto at a downstream side.

12. The bidirectional wireless charging/discharging device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the logic control unit comprise an electrical cell voltage detection pin, which is electrically connected to the discharging terminal of the electrical cell to read voltage of the electrical cell.

13. The bidirectional wireless charging/discharging device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the logic control unit comprises a temperature detection pin, which is electrically connected to a temperature sensor to detect temperature of the bidirectional wireless charging/discharging device.

14. The bidirectional wireless charging/discharging device as claimed in claim 13, wherein the temperature sensor comprises a thermistor.

15. The bidirectional wireless charging/discharging device as claimed in claim 14, wherein the thermistor is connected in parallel to an end of a fifth resistor, the fifth resistor an opposite end electrically connected between the power pin of the logic control unit and the second voltage regulation terminal of the boost/buck unit.