Charging apparatus

• US 10,608,458 B2
• Filed: 08/02/2018
• Issued: 03/31/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Chicony Power Technology Co. Ltd. (Chicony Electronics Company Limited)
• Original Assignee: Chicony Power Technology Co. Ltd. (Chicony Electronics Company Limited)
• Inventors: Chen, Jun-Han, Liu, Chien-Lung
• Primary Examiner(s): Berhanu, Samuel
• Application Number:
  US16/052,935
• Publication Number:
  US 20190305575A1
• Time in Patent Office: 607 Days
• Field of Search: 320108
• 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 7/00034 Charger exchanging data with an electronic device, i.e. telephone, whose internal battery is under charge

Abstract

A charging apparatus includes a power requirement unit and a power supply unit. The power requirement unit has a first sensing module and a first control module. The first sensing module senses an electric parameter value of a load. The first control module receives the electric parameter value. The power supply unit has a second control module and a power switching module. The second control module receives the electric parameter value to switch the power switching module according to an accumulated difference value produced by the electric parameter value and a target electric parameter value, thereby controlling the electric parameter value to be equal to the target electric parameter value.

Claims

1. A charging apparatus providing a target electric parameter value and supplying electric power to a load, the charging apparatus comprising:

a power requirement unit and a power supply unit;

wherein the power requirement unit comprises;

a first sensing module for detecting an electric parameter value of the load, and

a first control module for receiving the electric parameter value;

wherein the power supply unit comprises;

a second control module receiving the electric parameter value and providing a first frequency, a second frequency and a frequency difference; and

a power switching module;

wherein the second control module is configured to calculate an accumulated difference value based on the electric parameter value and the target electric parameter value, the second control module is configured to switch the power switching module at the first frequency with times of a first count and to switch the power switching module at the second frequency with times of a second count;

wherein when the accumulated difference value is larger than an adjustment upper bound, the second control module is configured to use the second frequency as a new first frequency and to use the second frequency subtracting the frequency difference as a new second frequency;

when the accumulated difference value is smaller than an adjustment lower bound, the second control module is configured to use the first frequency as the new second frequency and to use the first frequency plus the frequency difference as the new first frequency;

whereby the electric parameter value is adjusted to the target electric parameter value.

2. The charging apparatus in claim 1, wherein the first control module is configured to digitalize the electric parameter value in to a digital electric parameter value, the second control module provides a digital target electric parameter value by digitalizing the target electric parameter value;

wherein the second control module comprises;

an operation unit configured to receive the target electric parameter value and the electric parameter value and to perform calculation on the target electric parameter value and the electric parameter value to generate an electric parameter difference value; and

an accumulator receiving the electric parameter difference value and accumulating the electric parameter difference value to provide the accumulated difference value with P bits.

3. The charging apparatus in claim 2, wherein the second control module is configured to fetch M most significant bits from the P bits data to form an M bit data, and to adjust the first count and the second count based on the M bit data, wherein a sum of the first count and the second count is equal to a maximal value represented by the M bit data.

4. The charging apparatus in claim 3, wherein the second control module is configured to determine that the accumulated difference value is larger than the adjustment upper bound when the digital target electric parameter value is larger than the digital electric parameter value and the M bit data has carry operation.

5. The charging apparatus in claim 3, wherein the second control module is configured to determine that the accumulated difference value is smaller than the adjustment lower bound when the digital target electric parameter value is smaller than the digital electric parameter value and the M bit data has borrow operation.

6. The charging apparatus in claim 3, wherein the second count is equal to a decimal value corresponding to the M bit data.

7. The charging apparatus in claim 1, further comprising:

a communication module receiving the electric parameter value provided by the first control module and sending the electric parameter value to the second control module.

8. The charging apparatus in claim 1, wherein the power supply unit further comprises:

a touch-control switch coupled to the second control module, the touch-control switch is configured to trigger the second control module to control the power switching module when the touch-control switch receives a touch signal.

9. The charging apparatus in claim 7, further comprising:

an inductance coupling unit coupled between the power supply unit and the power requirement unit and sending an electric power of the power supply unit to the power requirement unit;

wherein the communication module has Bluetooth communication function to provide wireless communication between the first control module and the second control module.

10. The charging apparatus in claim 7, further comprising:

a power conversion unit electrically connected between the power supply unit and the power requirement unit and sending an electric power of the power supply unit to the power requirement unit;

wherein the communication module provides wired communication between the first control module and the second control module.