A charger or power supply is provided that effects substantially continuous charging to one or more devices and/or batteries, on a surface of the charger or power supply. The charger or power supply comprises: a plurality of coils arrayed in one or multiple layers to provide substantially continuous charging or to supply wireless power over an effective charging area of the surface of the charger or power supply, wherein the effective charging area is larger than a single coil surface area, and the coils are arrayed such that any location on the effective charging area is at a distance equal to or less than a radius or a side-to-center length of at least one coil. Ferromagnetic and/or electrically conductive layers or structures positioned within the charger or power supply shield components within the charger or power supply (or shield the nearby environment of the charger or power supply).

Methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums are provided for identifying a battery. The method may be applied to electronic equipment. The electronic equipment may detect an electrical parameter of a cell under test in the battery of the electronic equipment. The electronic equipment may also determine a similarity between the cell under test and a preset cell according to the electrical parameter, the preset cell meeting a first preset matching relation with the electronic equipment. The electronic equipment may further determine, according to the similarity, whether the cell under test meets the first preset matching relation with the electronic equipment, acquiring a determination result.

A battery charger identifies the type of battery that is connected to it in order to provide the optimum voltage-current-time profile that is needed to safely and optimally charge and maintain the battery. In some embodiments, the battery current or voltage is monitored during charging, and as the current or the voltage changes while the charger is powered, the changes are measured and used to determine the type of battery that is connected so that the optimum charge profile can be applied.

The present disclosure provides a device to be charged, a wireless charging device and a control method thereof. The device to be charged includes: a wireless receiving circuit, configured to receive an electromagnetic signal transmitted by a wireless charging device and convert the electromagnetic signal to a first output voltage; a step-down circuit, configured to perform step-down process on the first output voltage to obtain a second output voltage, and charge a battery of the device to be charged based on the second output voltage; a temperature detecting circuit, configured to detect a temperature of the device to be charged; a communication control circuit, configured to send feedback information to the wireless charging device, when the temperature is larger than a preset threshold. The feedback information is configured to trigger the wireless charging device to control wireless charging process to reduce the first output voltage.

A battery pack including: first and second battery contactors respectively having first ends electrically connected to positive and negative electrode terminals of a battery; first and second charging contactors respectively having first ends electrically connected to second ends of the first and second battery contactors; a second power connector of a charger having first and second output terminals respectively electrically connected to the first and second input terminals being connected to the first power connector; and a control unit configured to, when charging is being performed, diagnose a fault of each of the first charging contactor and the second charging contactor.

A system for charging a battery comprising a first switch operably coupled with a power supply. An inductive element, which may be a part of filter, is in operable communication with the switch. The system includes a processor in communication with the switch and in communication with a model of the inductive element. The processor is configured to execute instructions to control the switch to generate a sequence of pulses at the first inductive element to produce a shaped charge waveform responsive to running the model to generate the shaped charge waveform.

The present disclosure provides a wireless charging method, a wireless charging device, a wireless charging system and a device to be charged. The method includes: after a wireless charging device is coupled to a power supply device, the wireless charging device identifying the type of the power supply device; the wireless charging device charging a battery of a device to be charged in a target wireless charging mode according to the type of the power supply device, the target wireless charging mode being a first wireless charging mode or a second wireless charging mode, wherein a charging speed of the wireless charging device charging the battery in the first wireless charging mode is greater than a charging speed of the wireless charging device charging the battery in the second wireless charging mode.

A distributed battery power system having a battery pack and a battery controller. The battery pack has: a plurality of cells configured to generate a plurality of cell voltages; a voltage current temperature module electrically connected to the plurality of cells; and a plurality of isolation switch sets electrically connected between the plurality of cells. The battery controller is in communication with the voltage current temperature module, and operable to: send a status request to the voltage current temperature module; receive the plurality of cell voltages from the voltage current temperature module in response to the status request; determine if the plurality of cells includes one or more problem cells in response to the plurality of cell voltages; and perform an action in response to determining that the one or more problem cells are present to prevent damage to the one or more problem cells.

A charging control apparatus provides a supply power to first and second mobile devices. Each of the first and the second mobile device includes a mobile charging circuit and a battery. The charging control apparatus includes a switching power converter for converting an input power to the supply power, and a conversion control circuit for controlling the switching power converter according to the following steps: S1: controlling the switching power converter, so as to establish a current versus voltage characteristic curve corresponding to the supply power; and S2: determining a charging mode combinations of the first and the second mobile device and/or adjusting a supply voltage of the supply power to charge the battery of each mobile device according to the current versus voltage characteristic curve, so as to reduce a voltage drop of each mobile device as well as the power loss.

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.