Charging apparatus for secondary battery

• US 9,425,634 B2
• Filed: 01/06/2014
• Issued: 08/23/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/17/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Makita Corporation, Tamura Corporation
• Original Assignee: Makita Corporation, Tamura Corporation
• Inventors: Imamura, Koji, Yamamoto, Takeshi, Tabuchi, Yasuhiro, Kobayashi, Makihiro
• Primary Examiner(s): GRANT, ROBERT J
• Application Number:
  US14/148,089
• Publication Number:
  US 20140197780A1
• Time in Patent Office: 960 Days
• Field of Search: 320/108
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00 Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0049 Detection of fully charged condition

Abstract

A charging apparatus for a secondary battery comprises: a power supply circuit connected to a primary winding 11a of a transformer T1; a main winding 11b and a sub winding 11c connected to a secondary side of the transformer T1; a charging circuit 110 connected to the main winding 11b, the charging circuit 110 supplying power to a battery pack 130 to be charged; and a control circuit 120 connected to the sub winding 11c, the control circuit 120 controlling the charging circuit 110, wherein the charging circuit 110 comprises a LED 140 indicating a standby state or a charge completion state, the LED 140 being lighted at light-load time of the charging circuit 110 based on a command of the control circuit 120.

Claims

1. A charging apparatus for a secondary battery, comprising:

a power supply circuit connected to a primary winding of a transformer;

a main winding and a sub winding connected to a secondary side of the transformer;

a charging circuit connected to the main winding, the charging circuit supplying power to a battery pack to be charged; and

a control circuit connected to the sub winding, the control circuit controlling the charging circuit,

wherein the charging circuit comprises a LED indicating a standby state or a charge completion state, the LED being lighted at a light-load time of the charging circuit based on a command of the control circuit,

wherein the LED is connected to the charging circuit via a constant voltage circuit connected in series with the LED, and

wherein the charging circuit comprises a resistor connected to a connection point of the LED and the constant voltage circuit at one end and connected to the control circuit at the other end.

2. The charging apparatus for the secondary battery according to claim 1, wherein the control circuit allows the LED to blink responding to a charge state of the battery pack at light-load time of the charging circuit, controls current not to flow to the resistor when the LED is lighted, and controls current to flow to the resistor when the LED is not lighted.

3. A charging apparatus for a secondary battery, comprising:

a power supply circuit connected to a primary winding of a transformer;

a main winding and a sub winding connected to a secondary side of the transformer;

a charging circuit connected to the main winding, the charging circuit supplying power to a battery pack to be charged; and

a control circuit connected to the sub winding, the control circuit controlling the charging circuit,

wherein the charging circuit comprises a LED indicating a standby state or a charge completion state, the LED being lighted at a light-load time of the charging circuit based on a command of the control circuit,

wherein the LED is, at one end, connected to one end of a resistor, and is, at the other end, connected to the other end of the resistor, and

wherein the control circuit allows the LED to blink responding to a charge state of the battery pack, controls current not to flow to the resistor when the LED is lighted, and controls current to flow to the resistor when the LED is not lighted.