Detailed Description
In order to better understand the technical content of the present invention, specific embodiments are described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1 is a functional block diagram of a self-regulated voltage power supply system according to an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 1, the power supply system includes a battery pack 110, a tool recognition circuit 120, a control circuit 130, a tool interface 140, and an electronic switch arrangement circuit 150. Such power supply systems are intended to provide a power supply for power tools (also called power tools), in particular cordless power tools, which may be any type of power tool, including but not limited to: electric drills, screwdrivers, impact drills, impact wrenches, electric hammers, electric circular saws, miter saws, reciprocating saws, band saws, cutting tools, sanders, illuminators, vibrators, pruners, lawn mowers, hair dryers, compressed air machines, etc., in some particular instances, the electric tool powered by the power supply system of embodiments of the present invention is one or more of the foregoing. The power supply system is removably coupled to the power tool to provide a supply of power thereto.
The battery pack 110 has a plurality of unit cells 101 (also referred to as cells), is attached together to form a battery assembly 102, and defines a positive voltage terminal and a negative voltage terminal of the battery assembly 102. Such attachments may be in series, parallel, and combinations thereof.
In the particular example shown in fig. 1 and 2, in the battery pack 102, 5 unit cells 101 are connected together in series.
In particular, a plurality of such battery packs 102 may be included in one battery pack 110. In the example shown in fig. 2, the battery pack 110 has 2 such battery assemblies 102. The number of unit cells included in each battery pack 102 is the same. As such, and as will be described in greater detail below, the selection of the connection of these different battery packs 102 allows for different voltage and/or current outputs from the battery pack to facilitate automatic adaptation and adjustment of the multi-voltage platform power tool.
The unit cell 101 is preferably a rechargeable secondary battery, such as a nickel metal hydride battery, a lithium-based battery, or the like.
The tool interface 140 of the power supply system, as shown in fig. 1, has at least one pair of positive 141 and negative 142 terminals, for example, which are received in slots in the battery pack or the housing of the power supply system, and when the power supply system is inserted and connected in place, typically corresponding terminals on the power tool will be connected to the pair of positive and negative terminals to provide power to the power tool through the positive and negative terminals during operation of the power tool.
The power supply system can in particular identify the type of platform of the power tool connected (electrically connected) to it in order to determine and automatically adapt the supply voltage and/or current level of the power supply system. In particular, at least one identification terminal 103 (S-terminal) is provided in the tool interface 140 as a tool detection terminal for identifying the voltage platform type of the tool by means of the tool identification circuit when connected to the power tool.
For example, as shown in the specific embodiment of fig. 1, the identification terminal 103 is disposed between the positive terminal 141 and the negative terminal 142 of the two power output terminals, but may be disposed at other locations where it is easy to mechanically, electrically and cooperatively engage with the power tool.
As shown in fig. 1, the power supply system has a tool identification circuit 120 electrically connected to the identification terminal 103 for identifying the voltage platform types of the external power tool connected to the power supply system, such as 18V, 20V, 36V, 40V, 48V, 60V, and other different voltage platform types.
The tool identification circuit 120 may be implemented by a voltage detection circuit, a magnetic sensor, or the like in an alternative embodiment, and in the particular example shown in the figure, an ID resistance identification sampling circuit is used as an identification circuit to perform sampling segmentation identification on the voltage platform of the electric tool.
The tool recognition circuit 120 is connected to a control core control circuit 130 of the power supply system. The control circuit 130 may be implemented by a circuit and/or a chip and/or a component having calculation and processing functions, such as a single chip, an MCU, and the like. In the foregoing embodiment, the MCU is preferably adopted for implementation.
The control circuit 130 controls the adaptive adjustment of the output voltage and/or the output current of the battery pack 110 according to the recognition result of the tool recognition circuit 120.
As shown in fig. 1 and 2, the battery pack 102 of the battery pack 110 is connected to the electronic switch bank circuit 150, and is disposed between the positive voltage terminal and the negative voltage terminal of different battery packs, and the connection form between the plurality of battery packs 102 is realized by the combination of on and off of the plurality of electronic switches (SW1, SW2, SW3, SW4, SW5) of the electronic switch bank circuit, so as to change the power output, i.e., the output voltage and/or current, of the battery pack 110.
The electronic switch permutation and combination circuit comprises a plurality of electronic switches (SW1, SW2, SW3, SW4 and SW5), and each electronic switch is independently controlled to be switched on and off by the control circuit 130.
Referring to fig. 1 and 2, the positive terminal and the negative terminal of each cell assembly 102 are configured to be connected to an electronic switch arrangement assembly circuit 150.
In some embodiments of the present invention, the control circuit 130, the tool recognition circuit 120, and the electronic switch permutation and combination circuit 150 may be disposed independently, for example, separate control circuit boards may be designed, or at least 2 of them may be integrated on one control circuit board in an integrated manner.
In the particular example shown in fig. 2, taking a battery pack having 2 battery assemblies as an example, equal strings of unit cells are arranged in 2 battery assemblies 102, for example, 2 unit cells are connected in series, each battery assembly 102 is relatively independent, and the positive and negative poles ("+"/") of each battery assembly 102 are individually connected to an electronic switch permutation and combination circuit 150 (for example, an electronic switch permutation and combination circuit control circuit board or a control circuit board of an integrated electronic switch permutation and combination circuit). Thus, the control circuit board will have 2 sets of "+"/"-" connectors such as B1+/B1-, B2+/B2-.
After the tool recognition circuit 120 recognizes the voltage platform type of the externally connected power tool, the control circuit 130, such as the MCU, controls the actions of the electronic switches in the electronic switch permutation and combination circuit 150, for example, an alternative electronic adaptation scheme is as follows:
the B1+/B1-, B2 +/B2-and the like are arranged and combined through electronic control:
as in the A combination: b1- → B1+ B2- → B2+. namely SW3/SW5/SW2 are turned on, SW1/SW4 are turned off, battery pack series connection is achieved, and high voltage is achieved. For example, 2 battery groups consisting of 5 lithium unit batteries (18650 single batteries) with the lengths of 2000mAh and the voltage of 3.6V are connected in series to realize a 36V 2000mAh battery pack.
Combining as B: (B1-// B2-) → (B1+// B2+), namely SW1/SW2/SW3/SW4 are simultaneously on, and SW5 is off. The parallel connection of the battery combination is realized, and the low-voltage large current is realized. For example, 2 battery combinations consisting of 5 lithium unit batteries of 2000mAh and 3.6V are connected in parallel to realize a battery pack of 18V 4000 mAh.
Thus, the electronic switches in the electronic switch permutation and combination circuit 150 are independently controlled by the control circuit MCU to realize different series and parallel combinations of battery combinations, and certain mathematical logic relations exist between these combinations.
Such as: the voltage presents a multiple relation of U, 2U and 3U.
Such as: capacity exhibits a multiple relationship, i.e., C, 2C, 3C.
Thus, the power supply system capable of automatically adjusting the voltage according to the platform type of the electric tool is realized.
It is noted that the electronic switches (SW1/SW2/SW3/SW4/SW5) mentioned above and in the drawings are not limited to a single switch but may be a combination of a plurality of switches.
In specific embodiments, in order to implement different control strategies for the battery combinations, there are 5 electronic switches between each two different battery combinations 102, wherein the first and second electronic switches (SW1, SW2) are serially disposed between the positive voltage terminals, the third and fourth electronic switches (SW3, SW4) are serially disposed between the negative voltage terminals, and the fifth electronic switch (SW5) is disposed between the first and third electronic switches.
In particular examples, as shown in fig. 2, the electronic switch permutation combination circuit 150 has an initial default permutation combination state, so that the battery pack has a default lower or lowest voltage output characteristic parameter. That is, after the external power tool is connected to the power supply system, the battery pack is set to a voltage pack in an initial default state of the power supply system, e.g., in a scheme having 2 battery packs, such 2 battery packs are defaulted to be connected in parallel to provide a lower or lowest voltage output. Referring to fig. 1 and 2, the internal circuit of the power supply system works and is identified through the tool electrical characteristic mark when the tool is accessed: if the mark identifies a low voltage characteristic, the power supply system does not switch the voltage and keeps the low voltage output characteristic; if the mark is identified as a high voltage characteristic, the power supply system switches the voltage to enable the power supply system to output a high voltage to meet the tool operation requirement.
In other embodiments, the power supply system according to the foregoing embodiments obtains the voltage characteristic of the tool and the operation characteristic of the tool through the identification of the unique identification of the external power tool, so that the power supply system customizes the operation parameters of the tool according to the set program module, and the parameters customizations include the operating over-discharge voltage range U, the protection current I, the protection delay time Td, the protection recovery time tf, and the like, so that the tool is always in a good operation state. As such, the control circuit 130 may be further configured to set an operational parameter customization of the connected tool for the battery pack based on the recognition result, the operational parameter customization including at least one of an operational over-discharge voltage range U, a protection current I, a protection delay time Td, and a protection recovery time tf.
In particular, the customized settings of the operating parameters satisfy:
the operation of the battery pack is determined by the platform of the connected tool;
the battery pack operation protection current I is the maximum output current of the battery pack, and the matched protection current is I when the tool is accessed;
the battery pack operation protection delay time Td is basic time, and the protection delay time matched when a tool is accessed is Td;
the battery pack operation protection recovery time Tf is basic time, and the protection recovery time matched with the tool access time Tf;
wherein: i is kI, k is a constant and k is less than or equal to 1;
td is a Td, a is a constant, and the value of a is determined according to the running characteristics of the tool;
and Tf is b, Tf, b is a constant, and the value of b is determined according to the running characteristic of the tool.
For example, a 20V/40V auto-tune switched power supply system:
the operation of the battery pack is determined by the platform of an external tool, and u1 is 20, 20V, u2 is 40V;
the battery pack operation protection current I is the maximum output current of the battery pack, and the matched protection current is I when the tool is accessed;
the battery pack operation protection delay time Td is basic time, and the protection delay time matched when a tool is accessed is Td;
the battery pack operation protection recovery time Tf is basic time, and the protection recovery time matched with the tool access time Tf;
wherein: i ═ kI, k is a constant and k ═ 1;
td, a is a constant, and the value of a is determined according to the running characteristics of the actual tool
Tf is b Tf, b is a constant, and the value of b is determined according to the running characteristic of the actual tool;
the k/a/b is set according to the actual measurement time of the whole machine.
Such as: when the 20V 4000mAh battery pack is connected into a 40V platform tool, the output of the battery pack is switched to 40V2000mAh
Setting operation protection current I in a 20V 4000mAh battery pack, wherein the current I1 is 0.6I when a 20V electric drill is connected, the current I2 is 0.3I when a 20V fan is connected, and the current I3 is 0.4I when a 40V grass cutter is connected;
setting an operation protection delay time Td in a 20V 4000mAh battery pack, wherein a current Td1 is 1.2 Td when a 20V electric drill is connected, a current Td2 is 1.5 Td when a 20V fan is connected, and a current Td3 is 0.8 Td when a 40V grass cutter is connected;
the operation protection recovery time Tf is set in the 20V 4000mAh battery pack, the current Tf1 is 1.5 Tf when a 20V electric drill is connected, the current Tf2 is 0.5 Tf when a 20V fan is connected, and the current Tf3 is 0.9 Tf when a 40V grass cutter is connected.
Therefore, through the power supply system with the self-regulated voltage of the various technical schemes, the output voltage/current of the battery pack is automatically regulated according to the type of the voltage platform of the whole machine of the accessed electric tool, so that a single battery pack has the capacity of multiple output voltages, can be applied to tools with multiple platform voltages, improves the universality of the tools, and solves the problem of switching among multiple battery pack platforms of an end user. Meanwhile, on the basis of self-adjusting the voltage according to the type of the tool platform, the operation parameter characteristics of the battery pack/battery pack are creatively adjusted according to the voltage platform, so that the battery pack is better adapted to the operation of the tool, and the tool is always in a good operation state.
Although the present invention has been described with reference to the preferred embodiments, it is not intended to be limited thereto. Those skilled in the art can make various changes and modifications without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention should be determined by the appended claims.