A power adapter, a terminal, and a method for processing an impedance anomaly in a charging loop are provided. The terminal includes a battery and a charging interface, and is configured to form a charging loop with a power adapter via the charging interface to charge the battery. The terminal further includes: a communication component, configured to receive voltage indication information from the power adapter when the power adapter charges the terminal, the voltage indication information indicating an output voltage of the power adapter; a detection component, configured to detect an input voltage of the power adapter; and an anomaly processing component, configured to determine whether an impedance of the charging loop is abnormal according to a difference between the input voltage and the output voltage, and to control the charging loop to enter into a protected state if the impedance of the charging loop is abnormal.

Faster charging of a battery, including: opening a first switch disposed between an input node of the battery and an input node of a load to decouple the input node of the battery from the input node of the load; and charging the battery using a first charging source coupled to the input node of the battery while the load is being powered through the input node of the load via a second charging source having a charge rate slower than the first charging source.

A method for periodic deep discharge to extract lithium in silicon-dominant anodes may include providing a cell comprising a cathode, a separator, and a silicon-dominant anode; charging and discharging the cell through a plurality of cycles; and, following the plurality of cycles, performing one or more deep discharge cycles, where each of the one or more deep discharge cycles comprises a cutoff voltage below a normal operating voltage range of the cell. The one or more deep discharge cycles may comprise a C/10 or lower or C/20 or lower discharge current. The one or more deep discharge cycles may include a cutoff voltage of 3.2 V or less, a cutoff voltage of 2.5 V or less, a cutoff voltage of 1.5 V or less, or a cutoff voltage of 1 V or less. The cell may be configured at a higher temperature during the one or more deep discharge cycles.

Battery systems, methods of in-situ grid-scale battery construction, and in-situ battery regeneration methods are disclosed. The battery system features controllable capacity regeneration for grid-scale energy storage. The battery system includes a battery comprising a plurality of cells. Each cell includes a cathode comprising cathode electrode materials disposed on a first current collector, an anode comprising anode electrode materials disposed on a second current collector, a separator or spacer disposed between the cathode and the anode an electrolyte to fill the battery in the spaces between electrodes. The battery system includes a battery system controller, wherein the battery system controller is configured to selectively charge and discharge the battery at a normal cutoff voltage and wherein the battery system controller is further configured to selectively charge and discharge the battery at a capacity regeneration voltage as part of a healing reaction to generate active electrode materials.

A remote controlled battery cell monitoring and control system that utilizes empirical and theoretical data to compare performance, sensor data, stored patterns, historical usage, use intensity indexes over time and tracking information to provide a sophisticated data collection system for batteries. This tracking is designed to better the specifications, designs, training, preventative maintenance, and replacement and recycling of batteries.

A battery management system comprising: at least one battery comprising two or more sets of cells, each set of cells comprising one or more cells; a multiplexing switch apparatus connected to each set of cells; and at least one controller configured to use the multiplexing switch apparatus to selectively discharge the sets of cells based on at least one criterion. A battery pack comprising: at least one battery comprising two or more sets of cells, each set of cells comprising one or more cells; and an integrated switching control system comprising at least one switch connected to each set of cells, wherein the integrated switching control system is configured to control the at least one switch to discharge the sets of cells sequentially or selectively based on at least one criterion. A battery management method or a battery pack control method.

Disclosed are a management method and device of Bluetooth® earphone charging paths, and a non-transitory readable storage medium, which detects that an external power supply is connected, acquires an electric power level of the charging box, judges whether the electric power level of the charging box is lower than a minimum working power threshold, closes a charging function of earphones and charges the charging box through the external power supply in responding to that the electric power level of the charging box is lower than the minimum working power threshold.

A power system has: an electrical load; first and second lines respectively including first and second power sources; and inter-line switch. The first power source outputs a power supply voltage. The second power source includes a storage battery. The power system includes: an anomaly determination unit determining an anomaly in the first line; a state control unit opening the inter-line switch if the occurrence of an anomaly is determined; first and second paths in parallel to each other between a connection point to the connection path and the second power source in the second line; a charging unit on the first path to charge the storage battery to a higher voltage than the power supply voltage of the first power source; and a discharge regulation unit on the second path to regulate discharge of the storage battery in the second line.

The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and devices for controlling charging of vehicles, to avoid charging during charge-adverse time periods or during charge restriction events. This can advantageously reduce cost to vehicles owners, and or provide access to reward incentives. Further, power distribution entities (utility providers) advantageously have increased control over power distribution to avoid over-burdening of power distribution infrastructure. Further, systems and methods for determining or inferring whether a vehicle is connected to a charge station are described, which can be used to inform automatic restriction of vehicle charging.

A bidirectional portable energy storage power supply without an adapter includes an, energy storage unit, a first full bridge circuit a resonant network, a second full bridge circuit, a third full bridge circuit and a charging and discharging interface circuit connected in turn. Each of the first full bridge circuit, the second full bridge circuit and the third full bridge circuit can be used as an inverter circuit, or a rectification circuit, the charging and discharging interface circuit switchably connected with a mains network and a workload, the resonant network combined with the first full bridge circuit or the second full bridge circuit to implement soft-switching. The present disclosure can implement to bidirectionally charge and discharge the portable energy storage power supply by omitting an external adapter thereof, to improve a charging and discharging conversion efficiency, shorten a charging time and reduce a volume of the power supply.