Mobile phone charger

• US 7,821,228 B2
• Filed: 11/29/2007
• Issued: 10/26/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/09/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Zhu, Qiang, Liao, Shan-Ming
• Primary Examiner(s): Tso; Edward
• Assistant Examiner(s): Berhanu; Samuel
• Application Number:
  US11/946,861
• Publication Number:
  US 20090039829A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,062 Days
• Field of Search: 320/103, 320/112, 320/114
• US Class Current: 320/114
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/342 The other DC source being a battery actively interacting with the first one, i.e. battery to battery charging with circuits for polarity protection H02J7/0034

Abstract

A charger includes a battery module, a boosting and charging circuit, a low voltage boosting circuit, and a charging interface. The battery module provides an operating voltage for the boosting and charging circuit and the low voltage boosting circuit. When the operating voltage is greater than a reference voltage of the boosting and charging circuit, the boosting and charging circuit module works and outputs a charging voltage to the charging interface. When the operating voltage is smaller than the reference voltage of the boosting and charging circuit but greater than a starting voltage of the low voltage boosting circuit, the low voltage boosting circuit works and boosts the operating voltage to the boosting and charging circuit, and then the boosting and charging circuit module works and outputs the charging voltage to the charging interface for the mobile phone.

Claims

1. A mobile phone charger for charging a mobile phone, comprising:

a battery module configured for receiving at least one battery therein, and providing an operating voltage from the at least one battery;

a boosting and charging circuit comprising a DC-DC converter chip, an input terminal of the DC-DC converter chip receiving the operating voltage from the battery, when the operating voltage of the battery is substantially higher than a reference voltage of the DC-DC converter chip, the DC-DC converter chip being activated and raising the operating voltage, and an output terminal of the DC-DC converter chip outputting the raised operating voltage as a charging voltage;

a low voltage boosting circuit comprising a DC step-up chip, a voltage input terminal of the DC step-up chip connected to a positive terminal of the at least one battery to receive the operating voltage therefrom when the operating voltage is substantially lower than the reference voltage and insufficient to activate the DC-DC converter chip, the DC step-up chip raising the low operating voltage to be substantially higher than the reference voltage and outputting the raised operating voltage to the input terminal of the DC-DC converter chip; and

a mobile phone charging interface connected to the output terminal of the DC-DC converter chip to receive the charging voltage, and providing the charging voltage to the mobile phone.

2. The mobile phone charger as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

an indicating circuit comprising at least one light-emitting diode (LED), and a variable resistor, the anode of the LED connected to the output terminal of the DC-DC converter chip, the cathode of the LED grounded via the variable resistor.

3. The mobile phone charger as claimed in claim 2, wherein the indicating circuit further comprises a sixth resistor connected between the variable resistor and ground, a voltage control terminal of the DC step-up chip connected to a node between the variable resistor and the sixth resistor.

4. The mobile phone charger as claimed in claim 1, wherein the battery module further comprises a switch, one end of the switch is connected to the positive terminal of the battery, the other end of the switch is connected to the voltage input terminal of the DC step-up chip.

5. The mobile phone charger as claimed in claim 1, wherein the DC-DC converter chip has an inductance terminal, a diode has an anode connected to the inductance terminal of the DC-DC converter chip, and a cathode of the diode connected to the output terminal of the DC-DC converter chip.

6. The mobile phone charger as claimed in claim 1, wherein the boosting and charging circuit further comprises:

first to fifth resistors, the first resistor connected between the voltage input terminal of the DC step-up chip and the input terminal of the DC-DC converter chip, the second resistor connected between the input terminal of the DC-DC converter chip and the output of the DC step-up chip, the third resistor connected between the output terminal of the DC-DC converter chip and the mobile phone charging interface, the output terminal of the DC-DC converter chip grounded via the fourth and fifth resistors connected in series, the DC-DC converter chip has a feedback terminal connected to a node between the fourth and fifth resistors.

7. The mobile phone charger as claimed in claim 1, wherein the low voltage boosting circuit further comprises:

sixth to eighth capacitors, the voltage input terminal of the DC step-up chip grounded via the sixth capacitor, a starting capacitor terminal of the DC step-up chip grounded via the seventh capacitor, and the output terminal of the DC step-up chip grounded via the eighth capacitor.

8. The mobile phone charger as claimed in claim 1, wherein the operating voltage of the battery module ranges from 0.3V to 6V.

9. The mobile phone charger as claimed in claim 1, wherein the reference voltage is 1.25V.

10. The mobile phone charger as claimed in claim 5, wherein an inductor is connected between the input terminal of the DC-DC converter chip and the inductance terminal of the DC-DC converter chip.

11. The mobile phone charger as claimed in claim 5, wherein the boosting and charging circuit further comprises:

first to fifth capacitors, the first capacitor connected between a voltage output terminal of the DC step-up chip and ground, the cathode of the diode grounded via the second capacitor, the charging interface is grounded via the third and the fourth capacitors, the DC-DC converter chip has a reference voltage terminal grounded via the fifth capacitor.