A power adapter provides power to an information handling system. The power adapter includes a power supply and a power delivery controller. The power supply receives an alternating current (AC) input at one of a plurality of input voltages, and provides a direct current (DC) output at one of a plurality of output voltages, each output voltage being associated with a current limit. The power delivery controller determines, upon being plugged into an AC power source, a first input voltage of the AC power source, determines a DC power delivery capability of the information handling system, sets a first output voltage and a first current limit of the power supply DC output based upon the first input voltage and the DC power delivery capability, the first output voltage and the first current limit defining a first power limit to the information handling system, determines that the power supply can provide a second power limit that is greater than the first power limit based upon an operating condition of the power supply, and communicates the second power limit to the information handling system.

A power storage apparatus includes a storage battery chargeable and dischargeable, a voltage stepping-up/down circuit that performs a voltage stepping-up operation of stepping up by PWM control a voltage supplied from the storage battery and outputting a stepped-up voltage to a high-voltage DC bus line, and a voltage stepping-down operation of stepping down by PWM control a voltage supplied from the high-voltage DC bus line and supplying a stepped-down voltage to the storage battery. Moreover, a detection device is provided that outputs a detection signal indicating a full-charged state of the storage battery, and a controller keeps a high-side switch in the voltage stepping-up/down circuit in an off state in response to input of the detection signal.

A charging circuit includes at least two charging chips for charging a battery of an electronic device. Each of the at least two charging chips is configured to operate in an independent charging mode. Each charging chip includes a first voltage sampling end and a second voltage sampling end for collecting voltage information of the battery, and each charging chip is configured for independent charging according to the collected voltage information. The first voltage sampling end and the second voltage sampling end are respectively connected to two poles of the battery.

Embodiments of the present invention manage a state of charge of a rechargeable battery for extended storage by determining a manual override for a storage protocol is not activate for a rechargeable battery associated with a battery charger and an electronic device. Receiving battery data, environment data, and historical data for the rechargeable battery associated with a battery charger. Embodiments of the present invention determine to activate the storage protocol for the rechargeable battery based on the battery data, the environment data, and the historical data and discharge the rechargeable battery to a preset state of charge level based on the storage protocol.

To sufficiently exert charging and discharging performance of a cell while reliably protecting the cell, a battery controller determines ΔVlimit which is a limit value for a difference between a CCV and an OCV of a cell module, which is a secondary cell, and determines at least one of an upper limit voltage and a lower limit voltage of the cell module. An allowable current of the cell module is calculated based on the ΔVlimit and at least one of the upper limit voltage and the lower limit voltage determined in this manner.

According to various embodiments, an electronic device may include: a battery; a charging circuit; a wireless power reception circuit configured to acquire transmission power wirelessly output from an external electronic device; and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to charge the battery through the charging circuit by using reception power acquired through the wireless power reception circuit, obtain status information related to the charging operation during the charging operation, and transmit a specified signal, corresponding to pausing of the transmission power, to the external electronic device such that the external electronic device pauses outputting of the transmission power, at least on the basis of the status information. In addition to the various embodiments according, other various embodiments are also possible.

A connector part for connecting to a mating connector part includes at least one load contact and at least one temperature sensor for detecting a temperature of the at least one load contact. The connector part further includes an evaluation unit. The evaluation unit is configured to detect at least one sensor value of the at least one temperature sensor and at least one value of a parameter with respect to an electric current flow via the at least one load contact.

An electric quantity measuring apparatus, including a battery unit, a sampling unit, and a charging management integrated circuit. The sampling circuit is connected to the battery unit and configured to obtain a current signal of the battery unit. The charging management integrated circuit is arranged with a voltage detection pin and a current detection pin. The voltage detection pin is connected to the battery unit, and the current detection pin is connected to the sampling circuit. The charging management integrated circuit is configured to detect a voltage signal of the battery unit based on the voltage detection pin, detect the current signal of the battery unit based on the current sampling pin, and obtain voltage information, current information, and electric quantity information of the battery unit.

Disclosed in embodiments of the present disclosure are a wireless charging control method and a wireless charging system. An electricity transmitter is controlled to charge a chargeable device in the discontinuous mode in response to the temperature information matches the first preset condition. In the discontinuous mode, electricity transmitter is controlled to charge the chargeable device during first charging time period of each charging cycle, and to stop charging the chargeable device during second charging time period of each charging cycle to let an energy storage element in the chargeable device discharge to a battery. Thus, it is possible to reduce the power consumption caused by magnetic induction in the wireless charging process, to lower the temperature of the electricity transmitter and the chargeable device, and to reduce the wake-up times of the chargeable device during the charging process.

An uninterruptible power system and an operation method thereof are provided. The uninterruptible power system comprises a DC-AC conversion circuit, a plurality of switches, a plurality of sensing units, a plurality of output ports and a control unit. Each output port is electrically coupled to an output terminal of the DC-AC conversion circuit sequentially through one of the sensing units and one of the switches. The control unit is configured to define members of at least one group from the output ports according to a system setting, and define which members of each group are non-critical output ports according to the system setting. The control unit is further configured to set, according to the system setting, at least one condition for all non-critical output ports in each group to simultaneously stop supplying power, and to accordingly control the operations of the corresponding switches.