According to various embodiments, an electronic device may include: a housing, a battery, at least one sensor, a charging circuit, and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is configured to: control the charging circuit to charge the battery with a first charging current through the charging circuit, measure a temperature associated with the electronic device using the at least one sensor while charging the battery with the first charging current, based on the temperature associated with the electronic device being equal to or higher than a first threshold temperature, decrease the first charging current to be a second charging current and charge the battery with the second charging current, and based on the temperature associated with the electronic device being below a second threshold temperature lower than the firstSAVE threshold temperature while charging the battery with the second charging current, decrease the first charging current and charge the battery with the decreased charging current, wherein the battery is configured to be charged with the first charging current decreased based on a number of times the first charge current has been decreased, the temperature associated with the electronic device being below the first threshold temperature.

The present disclosure provides a charging system and method and a power adapter. The system includes: a battery; a first rectification unit, configured to output a voltage with a first pulsating waveform; a switch unit, configured to modulate the voltage with the first pulsating waveform; a transformer, configured to output a voltage with a second pulsating waveform according to the modulated voltage; a second rectification unit, configured to rectify the voltage with the second pulsating waveform to output a voltage with a third pulsating waveform; and a control unit, configured to output the control signal to the switch unit to decrease a length of a valley of the voltage with the third pulsating waveform such that a peak value of a voltage of the battery is sampled.

The present disclosure relates to method performed by a battery charger configured to notify an electrically connected vehicle (120) about status of the battery charger, the method comprising measuring output (O) of the battery charger to the electrically connected vehicle, determining a charging mode (CM) of the battery charger, determining pulse characteristics using the measured output and the determined charging mode (CM), generating a pulse train using the determined pulse characteristics, wherein the pulse train is indicative of the status of the battery charger.

The present application provides a charging control method and apparatus, a battery management system and a readable storage medium. The charging control method includes: obtaining a battery temperature and a battery state of charge; determining a pulse charging frequency according to the battery temperature, the battery state of charge and a pre-calibrated corresponding relationship; obtaining a preset waveform characteristic of a pulse charging waveform; where the waveform characteristic includes a ratio range of an area of a positive pulse waveform to an area of a negative pulse waveform in each pulse cycle of the pulse charging waveform; and generating a charging request according to the pulse charging frequency and the waveform characteristic and transmitting the charging request to a charging device. The method is used for improving charging stability and safety of a battery.

A bidirectional power supply system receives power from a low voltage (LV) primary power supply, providing power to a control unit of a LV board net in a first mode of operation. A high voltage (HV) board net is coupled to a HV traction battery. A DC-DC converter, in the first mode, transfers energy from the LV board net to the HV board net to power components of the HV board net via the primary power supply, and, in a second mode of operation, transfers energy from the HV board net to the LV board net to power the control unit via the traction battery. The bidirectional power supply system includes a measurement element to detect whether the primary power supply is lost, and a switching element to switch operation of the DC-DC converter from the first mode to the second mode, when the primary power supply is lost.

A device for controlling wireless charging output power based on a PWM integrating circuit includes a magnetic-resonance transmitting module and a magnetic-resonance receiving module. The magnetic-resonance transmitting module includes a wireless charging base, a Bluetooth master circuit, a DC/DC regulator circuit, a PWM integrating circuit, a radio-frequency power amplifier source, a radio-frequency current sampling circuit and a magnetic-resonance transmitting antenna. Both the radio-frequency power amplifier source and the magnetic-resonance transmitting antenna are mounted at the wireless charging base. The magnetic-resonance transmitting antenna is connected to the magnetic-resonance receiving module. The magnetic-resonance receiving module includes a cooling fin, a magnetic-resonance receiving antenna, a Bluetooth slave circuit, a receiving rectifier and regulator circuit and a charging control circuit. The magnetic-resonance receiving antenna, the receiving rectifier and regulator circuit and the charging control circuit are connected successively. The magnetic-resonance receiving antenna is arranged directly above the magnetic-resonance transmitting antenna.

A method for fast charging from an initial charge state SOC.sub.0 to a predefined target charge state SOC.sub.target is provided. Optimized fast charging conditions are determined using impedance measurements or impedance spectroscopy (EIS) of a battery system which includes a plurality of lithium ion cells. Units consisting of individual cells or of blocks of cells connected in parallel are connected in series, and devices for measuring the voltage and at least one component of the impedance of these cell units are also provided.

The present disclosure provides a fast charging driver. The fast charging driver is configured to charge a battery of an electronic device. The fast charging driver includes a fast charging circuit and a charging controller. The fast charging circuit includes a first depletion-type GaN transistor, a first enhancement-type field effect transistor, a second depletion-type GaN transistor and a second enhancement-type field effect transistor. The charging controller is configured to control the fast charging circuit to operate in a constant current mode or a constant voltage mode according to a battery level of the battery. By utilizing the first depletion-type GaN transistor and the second depletion-type GaN transistor with a characteristic of a relatively low switching loss, the power consumption during charging the battery by the fast charging driver is decreased to improve the charge speed.

In at least one embodiment, a vehicle battery charger is provided. The charger includes at least one transformer, a first active bridge, a second active bridge, and at least one controller. The first active bridge includes a first plurality of switching devices being positioned with the primary. The second active bridge includes a second plurality of switching devices being positioned with the secondary to generate. The controller is configured to activate the first plurality of switching devices based on a primary control signal and to activate the second plurality of switching devices based on a secondary control signal. The controller is configured to generate the secondary control signal in accordance to a first control variable. The controller is further configured to generate a second control variable that corresponds to a phase shift between the primary control signal and the secondary control signal.

An energy store is described. The energy store includes at least one storage cell and one storage cell management system, which includes a charge distribution circuit for monitoring the charging and discharging of the storage cell, the energy store being shiftable by the storage cell management system into an active state or into a passive state, the storage cell management system including a logic circuit, including a switch for switching between the active state and the passive state and the switch being switchable by inserting the energy store into a guide. An energy storage system including such an energy store and a guide, is also described.