Automatically updating a full charge capacity (FCC) of a battery of an information handling system, the method including: determining that the SOC of the battery is less than the SOC threshold; determining that the time since the previous update of the FCC of the battery is greater than the time threshold; identifying configuration parameters for an update of the FCC of the battery; comparing the configuration parameters with current conditions of the battery; based on comparing the configuration parameters with current conditions of the battery, determining that the current conditions of the battery are within bounds of the configuration parameters; and in response to determining that the current conditions of the battery are within the bounds of the configuration parameters, updating the FCC of the battery.

A power regulation unit is provided for regulating power to or from a power tool battery pack. The power regulation unit includes power regulation circuitry and a controller. The power regulation circuitry is configured to regulate a received power. The controller is connected to the power regulation circuitry. The controller is configured to receive input power from one or more battery cells, regulate the input power by performing at least one of a voltage regulation and a current regulation, and output a regulated output power. For voltage regulation, the regulated output power includes a constant voltage regardless of an operating current of the power tool. For current regulation, the regulated output power includes a constant voltage up to a predetermined current threshold.

Systems and methods for communicating information related to a wearable device are disclosed. Exemplary information includes audio information.

A terminal and a fast charging method includes sending, by the terminal, instruction information to a charger connected to the terminal in order to instruct the charger to adjust an output voltage and an output current, converting, by the terminal, the output voltage of the charger into 1/K times the output voltage, and converting the output current of the charger into K times the output current such that a charging circuit between two sides of a battery charges the battery with the 1/K times the output voltage and the K times the output current, where K is a conversion coefficient of a conversion circuit with a fixed conversion ratio in the terminal and is a constant value, and K is any real number greater than one.

A battery charging system includes a battery removably mounted on an electric power device using electric power, a charging device configured to charge the battery using renewable power which is electric power generated from renewable energy, and a server configured to communicate with the charging device. The charging device is configured to control charging of the battery accommodated in an accommodation unit on the basis of reception information received from the server. The server is configured to compare receivable power, which is the renewable power capable of being received by the charging device, with a threshold value and configured to transmit transmission information for causing the charging device to control the charging of the battery to the charging device on the basis of a result of comparing the receivable power with the threshold value.

A battery system includes at least one battery including a plurality of cells and a hybrid control module configured to monitor a differential capacity of the at least one battery, determine when the monitored differential capacity of the at least one battery corresponds to a predetermined differential capacity of the at least one battery, and determine a state of charge of the battery in response to the determination that the monitored differential capacity corresponds to the predetermined differential capacity.

The present disclosure provides a mobile power supply and a method for supplying power to a peripheral device. The mobile power supply comprises a first peripheral connection port and a second peripheral connection port, a first group of connection-port processing circuits and a second group of connection-port processing circuits, a control circuit, and a power supply circuit. A control strategy determining circuit in each group of connection-port processing circuits determines a voltage adjustment strategy according to power supply status information of a corresponding peripheral connection port. The control circuit then causes a voltage adjusting circuit in the connection-port processing circuit to adjust, according to the voltage adjustment strategy, a voltage output by the power supply circuit, such that the adjusted voltage is used to supply power to a peripheral device coupled, by means of a power supply terminal, to the peripheral connection port.

Provided is a control device for controlling a storage battery. The control device includes a communication unit and a control unit. The communication unit communicates with the storage battery in a wired or wireless manner. The control unit controls the communication unit to send a control signal, to the storage battery, that causes the storage battery to operate in a first mode or a second mode. The first mode is a mode in which the width of changes over time in power bought or sold by a power control system connected to the storage battery is controlled to stay within a prescribed range. The second mode is mode in which the width of changes over time in power charged to or discharged from the storage battery is controlled to stay within a prescribed range.

An electronic device may include: a resonance circuit which comprises a battery, a coil and a capacitor, and receives power wirelessly; a rectifier which rectifies AC power, provided from the resonance circuit, to DC power; a DC/DC converter which converts and outputs the DC power provided from the rectifier; a charger which charges the battery by using the converted power provided from the DC/DC converter; a first OVP circuit which selectively connects the coil to the capacitor; a second OVP circuit which is connected in parallel to the first OVP circuit; a detection circuit which detects a rectified voltage; a control circuit; and a communication circuit, wherein the control circuit, on the basis that the detected rectified voltage is equal to or greater than a first threshold voltage, controls the first OVP circuit so as to be in an off state so that the coil is not connected to the capacitor, and on the basis that the detected rectified voltage is less than a second threshold voltage, controls the first OVP circuit so that the first OVP circuit is switched from the off state to an on state so that the coil is connected to the capacitor, wherein the second threshold voltage may be smaller than the first threshold voltage.

Provided is a system including: a management unit configured to manage a plurality of battery packs connected in parallel, in which the management unit is configured to control the plurality of battery packs to cause the plurality of battery packs to be discharged alternately so that a discharge rate of each of the plurality of battery packs becomes higher than the discharge rate in a case of discharging all of the plurality of battery packs. The plurality of battery packs include a plurality of left-hand side battery packs and a plurality of right-hand side battery packs, and the management unit is configured to manage the plurality of battery packs to cause at least one of the plurality of battery packs in each of the plurality of left-hand side battery packs and the plurality of right-hand side battery packs to be discharged at a time in order.