Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Master-slave charging circuit with slave charger input current sensing and adaptive battery current limiting
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Application No.: US15712770Application Date: 2017-09-22
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Publication No.: US10523042B2Publication Date: 2019-12-31
- Inventor: Chunping Song , Jialei Xu , Stuart Pullen , Steve Hawley , Neal Horovitz , Shashank Prakash Mane
- Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Applicant Address: US CA San Diego
- Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Diego
- Agency: QUALCOMM Incorporated/Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.
- Main IPC: H01M10/44
- IPC: H01M10/44 ; H01M10/46 ; H02J7/16 ; H02J7/00

Abstract:
Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to reducing the size of parallel charging circuits for charging a battery in a portable device, while still effectively providing input current sensing and reverse current blocking capabilities. One example battery charging circuit generally includes: (1) a first charging circuit comprising a first charging output connectable to a battery and a first converter to provide power to the first charging output; and (2) a second charging circuit comprising a second charging output connectable to the battery, a second converter to provide power to the second charging output, a first transistor coupled between an output of the second converter and the second charging output, and a current-sensing circuit coupled to the output of the second converter to sense a current through the first transistor.
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