BIDIRECTIONAL WIRELESS CHARGING AND DISCHARGING DEVICE FOR PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE

• US 20130162201A1
• Filed: 12/27/2011
• Published: 06/27/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ming-Hsiang Yeh
• Original Assignee: Ming-Hsiang Yeh
• Inventors: YEH, Ming-Hsiang
• Granted Patent: US 8,698,450 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 320/108
• 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 50/70 involving the reduction of electric, magnetic or electromagnetic leakage fields
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/345 using capacitors as storage or buffering devices

Abstract

Disclosed is a bidirectional wireless charging and discharging device for portable electronic device. The bidirectional wireless charging and discharging device includes: a wireless receiving and transmitting unit and a logic control unit, a step-up/step-down unit, first and second reverse current protectors, a control switch, and at least a supercapacitor. The first and second reverse current protectors function to prevent reverse current and to switch. The step-up/step-down unit controls step-up conversion in discharging and step-down conversion in charging. The logic control unit detects if a load exists on an opposite side of the wireless receiving and transmitting unit and controls the operations of the step-up/step-down unit and the first and second reverse current protectors, and can be even combined with a control switch to control selectively charging and discharging operations. The supercapacitor absorbs surge occurring in each charging operation.

Claims

1. A bidirectional wireless charging and discharging device, which is applicable to a portable electronic device having a circuit device, the circuit device being electrically connected to a power receiving terminal and a battery, the bidirectional wireless charging and discharging device comprising:

a logic control unit, which comprises a plurality of pins;

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

a step-up/step-down unit, which has 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 and transmitting unit, the two control terminals being respectively and electrically connected to first and second control pins of the logic control unit, a power pin of the logic control unit being electrically connected to the second voltage regulation terminal and the transmission terminal that are connected to each other;

a first reverse current protector, which has 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 battery and the first voltage regulation terminal of the step-up/step-down 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 battery and an opposite end electrically connected to the control terminal of the first reverse current protector and the third control pin of the logic control unit;

a second reverse current protector, which has 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 step-up/step-down unit, the control terminal being electrically connected to a fifth control pin of the logic control unit; and

a first supercapacitor, which has an end electrically connected to a connection between the power receiving terminal of the circuit device and the output terminal of the second reverse current protector and forming a first node at the connection and an opposite end grounded.

2. The bidirectional wireless charging and discharging device as claimed in claim 1 further comprising a second supercapacitor, the second supercapacitor being connected in parallel with the battery.

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

4. The bidirectional wireless charging and discharging device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the step-up/step-down unit is a step-up/step-down unit featuring synchronous rectification and is of MOSFET type synchronous rectification.

5. The bidirectional wireless charging and discharging device as claimed in claim 4, wherein the step-up/step-down unit with synchronous rectification comprises an inductor and two serially-connected and identically-directed MOSFETs, the two MOSFETs each having a control terminal, the two control terminals being respectively and electrically connected to the two control terminals of the step-up/step-down unit, the two serially-connected MOSFETs having a terminal electrically connected to the second voltage regulation terminal and an opposite terminal grounded, the inductor having an end electrically connected to the first voltage regulation terminal and an opposite end electrically connected between the two MOSFETs.

6. The bidirectional wireless charging and discharging device as claimed in claim 1 further comprising a third reverse current protector, the third reverse current protector having 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 node, the control terminal being electrically connected to a sixth control pin of the logic control unit.

7. The bidirectional wireless charging and discharging device as claimed in claim 6, wherein each of the reverse current protectors comprises a first resistor and two serially-connected and oppositely-directed MOSFETs, the two serially-connected MOSFETs having two ends serving as the input terminal and the output terminal of the reverse current protector, the two MOSFETs each having a control terminal, the two control terminals being electrically connected to the control terminal of the reverse current protector, 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 protector.

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

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

10. The bidirectional wireless charging and discharging device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the control switch is an automatically returning switch.