A High-Efficiency Multimode Li–Ion Battery Charger With Variable Current Source and Controlling Previous-Stage Supply Voltage

Abstract

<para xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> A high-efficiency multimode Li–Ion battery charger with variable current source and controlling previous-stage supply voltage is presented in this paper. Using variable current source can achieve the goal of constant-current mode to charge the battery and control previous-stage supply voltage which could increase the efficiency of the multimode battery charger. Moreover, the charging mode adopted in this charger is applied by two types of dual-mode strategy decided by the value of the equivalent series resistance of the Li–Ion battery. This technique will reduce the damage of Li–Ion battery. The Li–Ion battery charger is designed with 0.35-<formula formulatype="inline"><tex Notation="TeX">$\mu\hbox{m}$</tex></formula> CMOS double-poly four-metal processes. The experimental results show that the charger works well and the theoretical analysis can be confirmed. The average power efficiency of the multimode Li–Ion battery charger can be up to 91.2% under the average power of 1.24 W, and the accuracy of the adaptive reference voltage is up to 97.3%. The chip area is only <formula formulatype="inline"><tex Notation="TeX">$1.32 \times 0.95\ \hbox{mm}^{2}$</tex></formula>. </para>