An apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a primary power supply (PPS) configured to supply primary power, a PPS sensor configured to measure the power supplied by the PPS and provide a PPS measurement signal indicating an amount of the power supplied by the PPS, a backup power supply (BPS) configured to be provided in an emergency data system and further configured to supply backup power to a modem, and an integrated circuit configured to maintain a clock using the power supplied by the PPS. The integrated circuit is configured to receive the PPS measurement signal from the PPS sensor, determine whether the PPS measurement signal falls below a threshold, and maintain the clock using the power supplied by the BPS in response to a determination that the PPS measurement signal has fallen below the threshold.

A discharging control method and a charging control method for a battery pack control system are provides. The battery pack control system includes a master battery management unit and multiple slave battery management units. The master battery management unit controls the slave battery management units. The slave battery management units controls battery packs to connect to an operating circuit or disconnect from the operating circuit. In the discharging control method and the charging control method, a loop current generated from connecting a battery pack to an operating circuit is predicted each time before a slave battery management unit controls the battery pack to connect to the operating circuit, and the battery pack is controlled to connect to the operating circuit with the generated loop current within a safe value range.

The inspection device includes a charging unit and an inspection unit, and detects the connection anomaly by retrieving a first cell voltage at the early stage of start of the constant-current charging and a second cell voltage at a stage where the charging has progressed to determine deviations from the average value of all the cell groups.

An electronic device which can control battery charging on the basis of the state of a battery by checking the voltage of a battery and the output voltage of a charging circuit, while the battery is being charged in a constant current state, and determining the state of the battery on the basis of at least the voltage of the battery and the output voltage of the charging circuit. Other various embodiments identified in the description are possible.

A method for charging a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a first charging step of charging a first capacity Q.sub.1st at a first constant current value I.sub.1st, the first capacity Q.sub.1st including a capacity range in which dQ.sub.Si/dQ is more than or equal to a predetermined threshold value, a second charging step of charging a second capacity at a second constant current value more than the first constant current value, a detection step of acquiring at least one of dV/dQ and dQ.sub.Si/dQ, and a changing step of changing at least one of the timing of switching between the first charging step and the second charging step and the first constant current value I.sub.1st on the basis of a change in time of dV/dQ or dQ.sub.Si/dQ.

A control system and method for improving battery output energy efficiency, and an electronic device are provided. The control system includes: a battery, a charging chip, a voltage conversion module, and a power supply management module. The battery is configured to send, when the control system is not connected to an external power supply, battery voltage to the voltage conversion module by means of the charging chip. The voltage conversion module is configured to receive the battery voltage, determine an operating mode on the basis of the battery voltage, acquire an output voltage corresponding to the operating mode, and output the output voltage to the power supply management module. The power supply management module is configured to convert and output at least one system voltage on the basis of the output voltage, and the at least one system voltage is configured to supply power to a powered system.

A battery charging system determines a current condition of a battery in real time and dynamically determine a threshold voltage for controlling a charging mode of the battery based on the current battery condition. The battery charging system charges the battery using a constant current (CC) mode or constant voltage (CV) mode based on the battery voltage and the dynamically determined threshold voltage. The battery charging system can determine the voltage and current of the battery in real time without receiving information on the battery from the power receiving side of the battery charging system.

A battery information processing system includes a control device configured to perform capacity calculation processing. The capacity calculation processing is processing for calculating a full charge capacity Q of the module based on a fitting curve Z calculated by fitting processing of a Nyquist plot representing a result of measurement of an AC impedance of the module. In an OCV-SOC curve of the module, there are a flat region in which a ratio of variation is lower than a reference value and a steep region in which the ratio of variation is higher than the reference value. The control device estimates an OCV of the module from a result of detection by a voltage sensor and performs the capacity calculation processing when the estimated OCV is in the flat region.

Systems, methods and apparatus for wireless charging are disclosed. A charging device has a plurality of charging cells provided on a charging surface, a charging circuit and a controller. The controller may be configured to cause the charging circuit to provide a charging current to a resonant circuit when a receiving device is placed on the charging surface, provide a measurement slot by causing the charging circuit to decrease or terminate the charging current for a period of time and determine whether the receiving device has been removed from the charging surface based on measurement of a characteristic of the resonant circuit during the measurement slot. The characteristic of the resonant circuit may be representative of electromagnetic coupling between a transmitting coil in the resonant circuit and a receiving coil in the receiving device.

An electronic device included a first energy storage device coupled to a second energy storage device by a conductor. A charging node is coupled to the first energy storage device. Another conductor couples the charging node to the second energy storage device. A switch is electrically coupled between the conductor and the second energy storage device. A control circuit opens the switch, thereby allowing a first charging current to flow from the charging node to the first energy storage device through the conductor and a second charging current to flow from the charging node to the second energy storage device through the other conductor and closes the switch when a difference between a voltage of the first energy storage device and a voltage of the second energy storage device is within a predefined voltage difference threshold.