A power supply unit on an inhalation component generation device includes a power supply, a first resistor that is connected to the power supply, a second resistor that is connected in series to the first resistor, a connection part that is electrically connectable to an external unit, the connection part including a first electrical terminal that is electrically connected to a first node between the first resistor and the second resistor, and a second electrical terminal that is electrically connected to a second node disposed at a side opposite to the first node with respect to the first resistor, a first switch that is electrically connected to the first node and forms an electrical path electrically parallel with the second resistor, and a detecting part that detects connection of the external unit to the connection part based on a voltage drop amount in the second resistor. The first switch is maintained in an open state when the external unit is not connected to the connection part. The first switch includes a parasitic diode so that a flowing direction of a current output from the power supply that flows into the first switch through the first node is a reverse direction when the external unit is not connected to the connection part. An electrical resistance value of the second resistor is lower than the electrical resistance value of the first resistor.

A battery type identifying device is capable of identifying the type of a vehicle-mounted lead storage battery. The battery type identifying device includes: a charge processing unit which, on the condition that the state of a lead storage battery has reached a prescribed state as a result of a reduction in the amount of electricity stored therein from a fully charged state, carries out a determination charging process of charging the lead storage battery for a prescribed time; an accepted amount acquiring unit which acquires an amount accepted by the lead storage battery in the period during which the determination charging process is being carried out; and a determining unit which determines whether the lead storage battery is a liquid-type lead storage battery on the basis of the accepted amount acquired by the accepted amount acquiring unit.

The present disclosure provides a thermal runaway detection circuit and a method, which is directed to field of batteries. The circuit includes: a sensing module including a terminating resistor; a detection module including a first voltage dividing resistor set and a second voltage dividing resistor set; and a processing module connected to the detection module, wherein the processing module is configured to obtain thermal runaway detection data, and determine whether thermal runaway occurs in the battery pack based on the thermal runaway detection data. The thermal runaway detection data includes first sampled data and second sampled data. The technical solutions in the present disclosure can improve safety of the battery pack.

A method to charge a personal-protection-device energy store for operating a personal protection device of a vehicle. The method includes a step of reading in a voltage value of a source energy store of the vehicle. In addition, the method includes a step of ascertaining a charging current for charging the personal-protection-device energy store with power from the source energy store, the charging current being ascertained, using the voltage value read in; and using the charging current for charging the personal-protection-device energy store.

To provide a power supplying control apparatus, a power supplying apparatus, and a power supplying control method which control power supply appropriately. A power supplying apparatus according to the present embodiment is equipped with a plurality of ports corresponding to a USB (Universal Serial Bus) PD (Power Delivery) standard, a plurality of electric power supplying circuits which are provided corresponding to the ports and supply power to power receiving devices coupled to the ports, and a controller which holds a table of power profiles to which power receiving capabilities for each power receiving device are set, and controls the electric power supplying circuits, based on the table in such a manner that total supply power supplied from the electric power supplying circuits does not exceed a prescribed value.

Fast charging methods, fast charging apparatuses, and machine-readable storage media are provided. The fast charging method includes: in response to detecting a successful handshake with a to-be-charged device, monitoring a voltage request from the to-be-charged device, where the voltage request includes at least a QC3.0 (Quick Charge 3.0) voltage request; when the voltage request is the QC3.0 voltage request, determining a voltage combination of a first data line and a second data line according to respective voltage data of the first data line and the second data line in the QC3.0 voltage request; and when the voltage combination of the first data line and the second data line belongs to a first category valid voltage combination, adjusting a voltage transmitted via an output power line of a charger in a preset fine-tuning charging mode, where a voltage adjustment step size of the fine-tuning charging mode is less than a voltage adjustment step size of a QC3.0 charging mode, and the first category valid voltage combination corresponds to an invalid voltage combination in the QC3.0 charging mode.

A battery pack and charger platform including a voltage coupling circuit comprising an input that receives an input voltage and an output that sends an output voltage, a voltage monitoring circuit having an input coupled to the voltage coupling circuit output and an output, and a power source having an input coupled to the voltage monitoring circuit output, the power source input receives an input voltage representative of a charge instruction.

A battery pack is provided including a body having a first wall forming a first face from which a connection port extends for connection to a power tool or a charger, and a second wall forming a substantially planar second face. A finger notch recessed in the second face extends along an elongate axis perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the body.

According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a power delivery controller and an embedded controller. The power delivery controller supplies a first signal to the embedded controller when reception of a power from an external device is started, and supplies a second signal to the embedded controller when a first value of the power from the external device is changed. The embedded controller acquires first data from the power delivery controller when the first signal is supplied in an activation time, acquires a second value of the power to be received from the external device from a power circuit, and acquires second data from the power delivery controller when the first value indicated by the first data is different from the second value.

A charging cable has a current sensor, a charging state indicator and logic circuitry to operate the indicator based on detected levels of current flow to a chargeable device. If the sensor detects current is below a low threshold, the logic circuitry operates the indicator to indicate that the cable is not connected to any chargeable device. If the sensor detects current at or above a higher threshold, the logic circuitry operates the indicator to provide a perceptible output indicating that the cable is connected to the chargeable device and the current is charging the battery. If the sensor detects current at or above the low threshold but below the high threshold, the logic circuitry operates the indicator to provide a perceptible output indicating that the cable is connected to a chargeable device but is not charging the battery of the device, e.g. when the battery is, or is nearly, fully charged.