Intelligent pulse temperature control charger

• US 9,270,129 B2
• Filed: 09/12/2012
• Issued: 02/23/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/12/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hangzhou Chuangmei Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hangzhou Chuangmei Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Li, Mengquan
• Primary Examiner(s): Kik, Phallaka
• Application Number:
  US13/985,573
• Publication Number:
  US 20140139177A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,259 Days
• Field of Search: 320/109, 320/104, 320/105, 180/313, 180/65.1, 191/12.2 R, 191/12.4, 191/12.2 A
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 1/00 Arrangement or mounting of electrical propulsion units B60K7/00 takes precedence; arrangement or mounting of plural diverse prime-movers for mutual or common propulsion B60K6/00; electric transmission arrangements B60K17/12; electric equipment or propulsion of electrically-propelled vehicles per se B60L; current-collectors for power supply lines of electrically-propelled vehicles B60L5/00
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 49/06 adapted for multi-purpose use
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 75/44 Constructional details
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 11/02 using take-up reel or drum
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0042 characterised by the mechanical construction
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00711 with introduction of pulses during the charging process
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/007192 in response to temperature
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/04 Regulation of charging current or voltage
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/14 for charging batteries from dynamo-electric generators driven at varying speed, e.g. on vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries

Abstract

A battery charger employs a temperature sensor and single chip microcomputer (SCM) programs for controlling and performs charging with a pulse current. The polarization occurred during battery charging can be eliminated and the charging voltage and current can be automatically regulated based on ambient temperature. An intelligent pulse temperature control charger has a casing and a charging circuit having a high voltage switch power supply circuit and a low voltage control circuit. In the low voltage control circuit, a SCM is employed for controlling, the SCM has three pins as input terminals connected to a temperature sampling circuit, charging voltage sampling circuit and charging current sampling circuit of the battery, respectively, and the SCM has two pins as output terminals, one connected via a photoelectric coupler with the high voltage switch power supply and the other connected with a dichromatic light emitting tube and a heat dissipation fan.

Claims

1. An intelligent pulse temperature control charger, comprising a casing and a charging circuit having a high voltage switch power supply circuit and a low voltage control circuit, wherein in the low voltage control circuit, a single chip microcomputer (SCM) is employed for controlling the low voltage control circuit, the SCM has three pins as input terminals which are connected to a temperature sampling circuit of a battery, a charging voltage sampling circuit of the battery and a charging current sampling circuit of the battery, respectively;

the SCM has two pins as output terminals, one of which is connected via a photoelectric coupler with a high voltage switch power supply and the other of which is connected in turn with a dichromatic light emitting tube and a heat dissipation fan, the SCM in the low voltage control circuit has two pins as output terminals;

a second pin of the SCM is grounded via a resistor, the light emitting tube of the photoelectric coupler, and an indication light emitting tube, to control the high voltage switch power supply;

a third pin of the SCM is connected via a resistor to a base of a first triode, and a collector of the first triode is connected to a connection point of sixth, seventh and eighth resistors, the other end of the seventh resistor is connected to a red light of the dichromatic light emitting tube, the other end of the eighth resistor is connected to the base of a second triode, and an emitter of the second triode is connected to a base of a third triode, a collector of the second triode is connected to a green light of the dichromatic light emitting tube and one end of a ninth resistor, an emitter of the third triode is grounded, and the collector of the third triode is connected to a negative terminal of the heat dissipation fan, and a positive terminal of the heat dissipation fan is connected via a resistor to the positive terminal of a capacitor and a negative electrode of a fifth diode, a positive electrode of the fifth diode is connected to a seventh connecting terminal of a secondary coil of a high frequency transformer, and an eighth connecting terminal of the secondary coil is grounded.

2. The intelligent pulse temperature control charger according to claim 1, characterized in that

the SCM in the low voltage control circuit has three pins as input terminals;

a stabilized voltage integration block is connected via a first resistor to a temperature sensitive diode and first and second diodes which are connected in series with one another, and is grounded via a negative electrode of the second diode, a node of the first resistor and the temperature sensitive diode is connected to a fifth pin of the SCM, thus functioning as the temperature sampling circuit;

a negative electrode of the battery is connected via an insert connector to an end of second and third resistors, the other end of second resistor is grounded, and the other end of the third resistor is connected to a capacitor and a sixth pin of the SCM, thus functioning as the charging current sampling circuit;

a positive electrode of the battery is connected via an insert connector to a positive electrode of a third diode and an end of a contact of a relay, a negative electrode of the third diode is connected to a coil of the relay and an end of a fourth resistor, the other end of the fourth resistor is grounded via a fifth resistor which is connected in parallel with a capacitor, functioning as a voltage division filtering circuit, and the voltage division point of the fourth and fifth resistors is connected to a seventh pin of the SCM, thus functioning as the charging voltage sampling circuit;

the other end of the contact of the relay is connected to a negative electrode of a fourth diode, a positive electrode of the fourth diode is connected to a fifth connecting terminal of a secondary coil of a high frequency transformer, and a sixth connecting terminal of the secondary coil is grounded.

3. The intelligent pulse temperature control charger according to claim 2, characterized in that in the low voltage control circuit, the battery is connected with an insert connector, the battery has its positive electrode voltage-divided via the third diode, the coil of the relay, twelfth and thirteenth resistors, is filtered via capacitors, is voltage stabilized via the stabilized voltage integration block, and is fine-tuned via a resistor, to output a voltage of 5.12V, and is filtered via capacitors, to supply the SCM with operation power.

4. The intelligent pulse temperature control charger according to claim 1, characterized in that in the high voltage switch power supply circuit, a collector of a photoelectric triode of the photoelectric coupler is connected to a node of eleventh and twelfth resistors, the other end of the eleventh resistor is extended into two branches, one of which is connected via a resistor to a first connecting terminal of a primary coil of the high frequency transformer and the other of which is connected via a resistor and a diode to a third connecting terminal of the primary coil of the high frequency transformer, and the other end of the twelfth resistor is connected to a second pin of the SCM.