CN108879844A - A kind of power supply unit, method of supplying power to and electronic equipment - Google Patents

A kind of power supply unit, method of supplying power to and electronic equipment Download PDF

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CN108879844A
CN108879844A CN201810717119.9A CN201810717119A CN108879844A CN 108879844 A CN108879844 A CN 108879844A CN 201810717119 A CN201810717119 A CN 201810717119A CN 108879844 A CN108879844 A CN 108879844A
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Abstract

This application provides a kind of power supply unit, method of supplying power to and electronic equipments, the power supply unit includes supplying cell, the first power supply circuit with power management chip and the second power supply circuit with charger management chip, wherein, when meeting the first condition of power supply, the corresponding interface power supply of first power supply circuit by the power management chip at least one interface, when meeting the second condition of power supply, the second power supply circuit is powered using the corresponding interface of charger management chip at least one interface.It can be seen that, with be only capable of in the prior art by power management chip interface is powered in the way of compared with, the application has also expanded the second power supply circuit and has powered using the charger management chip in the second power supply circuit to interface, to share the load of power management chip, its power management pressure is reduced, while the requirement to power management chip and its included inductance can also be reduced.

Description

A kind of power supply unit, method of supplying power to and electronic equipment
Technical field
The invention belongs to the power-supply service technical field of equipment more particularly to a kind of power supply units, method of supplying power to and electronics Equipment.
Background technique
Type-C is a kind of connecting interface of USB (Universal Serial Bus, universal serial bus) interface, can be claimed For Type-C interface, can be inserted into regardless of tow sides, size is about that 8.3mm × 2.5mm can be supported as other interfaces The functions such as charging, data transmission, the display output of USB standard.
Currently, when the Type-C interface in equipment such as notebooks accesses Type C peripheral hardware (such as Type C USB flash disk, Type C ear Machine etc.) after, specific 5V power management chip, that is, PMIC (Power Management IC, the power management for utilizing device systems end Integrated circuit) it is powered to it.However, in equipment type C interface increase, device systems end 5V power management core The load of piece is increasing, increases the power management pressure of the chip, at the same also can to system end 5V power management chip and The requirement of its included inductance is higher and higher, such as, it is desirable that PMIC and its inductance overcurrent capability with higher etc., to increase The cost consumption and PCB (Printed Circuit Board, printed circuit board) area of PMIC are added.
Summary of the invention
In view of this, the application's is designed to provide a kind of power supply unit, method of supplying power to and electronic equipment, it is intended to overcome The above problem reduces the load of system end PMIC, and then reduces the cost consumption and PCB surface product of PMIC.
For this purpose, the application is disclosed directly below technical solution:
A kind of power supply unit, for powering at least one interface, the power supply unit includes:
Supplying cell;
First power supply circuit is connected between the interface and the supplying cell at least one described interface, including with The power management chip that the supplying cell is connected, for passing through the power management core when meeting the first condition of power supply The corresponding interface power supply of the piece at least one described interface;
Second power supply circuit is connected between the interface and the supplying cell at least one described interface, including with The charger management chip that the supplying cell is connected, for passing through charger management core when meeting the second condition of power supply The corresponding interface power supply of the piece at least one described interface.
Above-mentioned apparatus, it is preferred that first power supply circuit further includes at least one power switch;
The power management chip pass through each power switch at least one described power switch respectively with it is described extremely The each interface lacked in an interface is connected, for being established by cable by least one described confession when meeting the first condition of power supply The corresponding interface power supply of the respective switch of the Central Shanxi Plain in an ON state at least one described interface.
Above-mentioned apparatus, it is preferred that second power supply circuit further includes:
At least one enabled switching group each includes the first enabled switch and the second enabled switch in enabled switching group;
Controller is connected to any one or more in the charger management chip and at least one described power switch Between switch, and the controller by a corresponding enabled switching group at least one described enabled switching group and it is described extremely A corresponding switch in a few power switch is connected;The first enabled switch in a corresponding enabled switching group connects It is connected between corresponding charge switch and the power management chip, and is connected with the controller;Described corresponding one enabled The second enabled switch in switching group is connected between the corresponding charge switch and the charger management chip, and with it is described Controller is connected;
The controller is used for when meeting the first condition of power supply, enables the first enabled switch in corresponding enabled switching group In an ON state, the second enabled switch is in an off state, so that using the power management chip to described at least one The corresponding interface power supply in a interface;And for when meeting the second condition of power supply, the in corresponding enabled switching group is enabled In an ON state, the first enabled switch is in an off state two enabled switches, so that utilizing the charger management chip The corresponding interface from OTG function in progress at least one described interface power supply.
Above-mentioned apparatus, it is preferred that further include:
At least one charging circuit, the corresponding charging circuit of each interface;
Each charging circuit includes a charge switch, and the charge switch is connected to the phase at least one described interface It answers between interface and the charger management chip, the charge switch has adapter access on the interface corresponding to it When connect so that adapter is charged by the voltage conversion function of the charger management chip to the supplying cell.
Above-mentioned apparatus, it is preferred that described to fill when having adapter access on the either interface at least one described interface Electric appliance managing chip is also powered to the power management chip, is connect so that the power management chip is based on adapter to each Confession electricity.
Above-mentioned apparatus, preferably:
First condition of power supply includes:The one of any of the following conditions need to be met:Appointing at least one described interface One interface couple in adapter, alternatively, the non-couple in adapter of total interface at least one described interface and it is described at least one It is not connected with having peripheral hardware access on the corresponding interface of second power supply circuit in interface;
Second condition of power supply includes:The non-couple in adapter of total interface at least one described interface, and it is described There is peripheral hardware access on the corresponding interface being connected at least one interface with second power supply circuit.
Above-mentioned apparatus, it is preferred that the power switch, charge switch, the first enabled switch and the second enabled switch are mos Pipe.
A kind of method of supplying power to, for being powered using power supply unit at least one interface;The power supply unit includes:Power supply Battery;First power supply circuit is connected between the interface and the supplying cell at least one described interface, including with it is described The power management chip that supplying cell is connected;Second power supply circuit, the interface being connected at least one described interface and institute It states between supplying cell, including the charger management chip being connected with the supplying cell;
The method of supplying power to includes:
When meeting the first condition of power supply, pass through the power management chip accordingly connecing at least one described interface Confession electricity;
It is corresponding at least one described interface by the charger management chip when meeting the second condition of power supply Interface power supply.
The above method, it is preferred that it is described when meeting the first condition of power supply, by the power management chip to it is described extremely The corresponding interface power supply in a few interface, including:
Either interface couple in adapter at least one described interface, alternatively, the institute at least one described interface Have on the corresponding interface for being not connected with second power supply circuit in the non-couple in adapter of interface and at least one described interface outside having If when access, being powered by the corresponding interface of the power management chip at least one described interface;
Correspondingly, described when meeting the second condition of power supply, using charger management chip to it is described at least one connect The corresponding interface power supply in mouthful, including:
The non-couple in adapter of total interface at least one described interface, and at least one described interface with it is described When having peripheral hardware access on the corresponding interface that the second power supply circuit is connected, using charger management chip to it is described at least one connect The corresponding interface power supply in mouthful.
A kind of electronic equipment, including:At least one interface and such as described in any item power supply units of claim 1-7.
According to above scheme it is found that power supply unit provided by the present application, including supplying cell, with power management chip First power supply circuit and the second power supply circuit with charger management chip, wherein when meeting the first condition of power supply, The corresponding interface power supply of one power supply circuit by the power management chip at least one interface, is meeting the second power supply item When part, the second power supply circuit is powered using the corresponding interface of charger management chip at least one interface.It can be seen that with Be only capable of in the prior art by power management chip interface is powered in the way of compare, the application also expanded second power supply Circuit is simultaneously powered using the charger management chip in the second power supply circuit to interface, to share power management chip Load, reduces its power management pressure, while can also reduce the requirement to power management chip and its included inductance.
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In order to more clearly explain the embodiment of the invention or the technical proposal in the existing technology, to embodiment or will show below There is attached drawing needed in technical description to be briefly described, it should be apparent that, the accompanying drawings in the following description is only this The embodiment of invention for those of ordinary skill in the art without creative efforts, can also basis The attached drawing of offer obtains other attached drawings.
Fig. 1 is a kind of structural schematic diagram of power supply unit embodiment one provided by the present application;
Fig. 2 is the circuit structure diagram of the power supply unit of electronic equipment in the prior art;
Fig. 3 is a kind of structural schematic diagram of power supply unit embodiment two provided by the present application;
Fig. 4 is a kind of structural schematic diagram of power supply unit embodiment three provided by the present application;
Fig. 5 is a kind of flow diagram of method of supplying power to example IV provided by the present application;
Fig. 6 is the structural schematic diagram of a kind of electronic equipment embodiment five provided by the present application.
Specific embodiment
Following will be combined with the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and technical solution in the embodiment of the present invention carries out clear, complete Site preparation description, it is clear that described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, instead of all the embodiments.It is based on Embodiment in the present invention, it is obtained by those of ordinary skill in the art without making creative efforts every other Embodiment shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
This application provides a kind of power supply unit, method of supplying power to and electronic equipments, for reducing the power supply pipe of electronic equipment The load for managing chip, mitigates the power management pressure of power management chip, below by the confession by multiple embodiments to the application Electric installation, method of supplying power to and electronic equipment are illustrated.
It is a kind of structural schematic diagram of power supply unit embodiment one provided by the present application with reference to Fig. 1, which can answer For in the electronic equipments such as notebook, and it is specifically used at least one interface for including to electronic equipment power supply, described at least one A interface can include but is not limited to all types of interfaces for being used to access peripheral hardware of electronic equipment, such as accessing Type C U Type C interface of all types of Type C peripheral hardwares such as disk, Type C earphone etc..It next will be mainly right by taking Type C interface as an example Application scheme is illustrated.
As shown in Figure 1, in the present embodiment, the power supply unit includes:
Supplying cell 11.
The supplying cell 11 can be the internal battery of the electronic equipments such as notebook, such as nickel-cadmium cell (NiCd) or ni-mh Battery (NiMH) etc. has the function of electric power storage of charging, can set in the case where electronic equipment does not access external power supply to electronics Standby each functional component power supply.
First power supply circuit 12 is connected between the interface and the supplying cell 11 at least one described interface, packet The power management chip 121 being connected with the supplying cell 11 is included, first power supply circuit 12 is for meeting the first confession When electric condition, powered by the corresponding interface of the power management chip 121 at least one described interface.
Specifically, the power management chip 121 in first power supply circuit 12 may connect at least one described interface In each interface and the supplying cell 11 between, with it is any in the prior art under the conditions of by power management chip to each The mode that a interface is powered distinguishes, and in the application, only when meeting the first condition of power supply, just passes through the power supply The corresponding interface power supply of the managing chip 121 at least one interface of electronic equipment.
Wherein, first condition of power supply can be the condition according to set by actual service logic demand, this first The setting purpose of condition of power supply is:Under the premise of can satisfy the power demands of interface, mitigate the power management chip 121 load, and then reduce the power management pressure of power management chip 121.Therefore, first condition of power supply can be set To can show that the load of power management chip 121 is not up to the correlated condition of the upper limit, it is such as currently accessed the interface quantity of peripheral hardware Not up to set amount threshold (as only a Type C interface accessed Type C peripheral hardware, load pressure is smaller, so as to Directly powered by power management chip) etc.;Or the interface with power demands has only accessed the first power supply circuit 12, does not connect Enter second power supply circuit of the application etc. (in such cases, can only be powered, so as to be determined as that this connects using power management chip Mouth meets the first condition of power supply).First condition of power supply can by technical staff when carrying out product design according to demand voluntarily It determines, the present embodiment does not limit to the content of first condition of power supply.
Second power supply circuit 13 is connected between the interface and the supplying cell 11 at least one described interface, packet The charger management chip 131 being connected with the supplying cell 11 is included, second power supply circuit 13 is for meeting second When condition of power supply, powered using the corresponding interface of charger management chip 131 at least one described interface.
Charger management chip is as its name suggests for example above-mentioned for the internal battery to electronic equipment in the prior art Supplying cell 11 carry out Charge Management, by taking notebook as an example, refering to what is shown in Fig. 2, charger management chip is (i.e. in Fig. 2 Charger it) is generally used for the 20V direct current that adapter accesses being converted to 6.5~8.8V direct current and is supplied to notebook Internal battery (Battery), so that the internal battery for notebook charges, meanwhile, it is transported in notebook os starting In the case where row, it is also used to convert resulting 6.5~8.8V direct current and is supplied to power management chip (PMIC), subsequent power 6.5~8.8V direct current is converted to 5V direct current based on its voltage conversion function and realized to equipment power supply by managing chip.
It is distinguished with the prior art, the application is proposed by improving to charger management chip, and is specifically led to The expansion power supply management function in charger management chip is crossed, so that the charger management chip is in addition to can be used in charging Management, additionally it is possible to for being powered management to part of appliance, so as to (electric based on equipment using the charger management chip The electricity in pond) part of appliance is powered, the load of power management chip is shared with this.
In consideration of it, the charger management chip 131 in the application is also equipped with the phase at least one above-mentioned interface The power supply management function of answering interface to be powered.
In specific implementation, the second power supply circuit 13 corresponding to the charger management chip 131 can be connected to described Between one or more interfaces at least one interface, for being supplied by described second when meeting the second condition of power supply The corresponding interface power supply of the charger management chip 131 at least one described interface in circuit 13, shares power supply with this The load pressure of managing chip 121.Second condition of power supply equally can be according to set by actual service logic demand Condition, and its set purpose it is identical as the setting purpose of the first condition of power supply, be in the power demands that can satisfy interface Under the premise of, mitigate the load of the power management chip 121, and then reduce the power management pressure of power management chip 121. To which second condition of power supply can be the condition to match with first condition of power supply, and such as can be can show that electricity The load of source control chip 121 has reached the correlated condition of the upper limit (the interface quantity as being currently accessed peripheral hardware has reached setting Amount threshold, so that the charger management chip 131 that the second power supply circuit 13 can be used for the interface beyond amount threshold supplies Electricity) etc..
According to above scheme it is found that power supply unit provided in this embodiment, including supplying cell, there is power management chip The first power supply circuit and the second power supply circuit with charger management chip, wherein when meeting the first condition of power supply, The corresponding interface power supply of first power supply circuit by the power management chip at least one interface, is meeting the second power supply When condition, the second power supply circuit is powered using the corresponding interface of charger management chip at least one interface.It can be seen that Be only capable of in the prior art by power management chip interface is powered in the way of compared with, the application also expanded second confession Circuit is simultaneously powered using the charger management chip in the second power supply circuit to interface, to share power management chip Load, reduce its power management pressure, while the requirement to power management chip and its included inductance can also be reduced.
It is a kind of structural schematic diagram of power supply unit embodiment two provided by the present application with reference to Fig. 3, the present embodiment continues pair The power supply unit is described in further detail, as shown in figure 3, first power supply circuit 12 of the power supply unit further include to A few power switch 122;
The power management chip 121 pass through each power switch at least one described power switch 122 respectively with Each interface at least one described interface is connected, for when meeting the first condition of power supply, by it is described at least one The corresponding interface power supply of the respective switch at least one described interface in power switch 122 in an ON state.
As shown in figure 3, second power supply circuit 13 further includes:
At least one enabled switching group 132 each includes that the first enabled switch 1321 and second make in enabled switching group It can switch 1322;
Controller 133 is connected to the charger management chip 131 and appointing at least one described power switch 122 Between one or more switch, and the controller 133 is made by corresponding one at least one described enabled switching group 132 Energy switching group is connected to the corresponding switch at least one described power switch 122;Described corresponding one enabled switch The first enabled switch 1321 in group is connected between corresponding charge switch and the power management chip 121, and with the control Device 133 processed is connected;The second enabled switch 1322 in a corresponding enabled switching group is connected to the phase inductive charging and opens It closes between the charger management chip 131, and is connected with the controller 133;
The controller 133 is used for when meeting the first condition of power supply, and first enabled in corresponding enabled switching group enables In an ON state, the second enabled switch 1322 is in an off state switch 1321, so that utilizing the power management chip 121 the corresponding interface power supply at least one described interface;And for when meeting the second condition of power supply, enabling accordingly to make In an ON state, the first enabled switch 1321 is in an off state the second enabled switch 1322 in energy switching group, so that Using OTG (On-The-Go, the in progress) function of the charger management chip 131 at least one described interface The corresponding interface power supply.
Wherein, include at least one described power switch 122 and at least one described enabled switching group 132 the One enabled switch 1321, second enables switch 1322, can be but not limited to mos pipe.
The present embodiment by be arranged in the second power supply circuit 13 controller 133 and it is described at least one enabled open The enabled switch 1322 of the first enabled switch 1321, second that pass group 132 includes may make and meet the first condition of power supply or the In the case where two conditions of power supply, the ON/OFF of the described first enabled switch 1321 is enabled using the controller 133, simultaneously The off/on for enabling the described second enabled switch 1322, realizes and utilizes the power management core in first power supply circuit 12 Piece 121 is powered to interface or is powered using the power management chip 131 in second power supply circuit 13 to interface.Specifically Ground, when meeting above-mentioned first condition of power supply, for example, being not up to setting in the interface quantity that electronic equipment is currently accessed peripheral hardware In the case where amount threshold, using first in enabled switching group corresponding to the enabled interface for accessing peripheral hardware of controller 133 Enabled switch connection, the second enabled switch OFF, so that power switch and the power supply corresponding to the interface of access peripheral hardware Connection between managing chip 121 is connected, and then the interface power supply by power management chip 121 to access peripheral hardware.
Alternatively, a certain interface in access peripheral hardware has only accessed first power supply circuit and has not accessed second power supply In the case where circuit, in order to meet the power demands of the interface, the corresponding power switch of the interface can be directly connected, so as to get profit It is powered with the power management chip 121 in the first power supply circuit 12 to the interface.
And when meeting above-mentioned second condition of power supply, for example, the interface quantity in current accessed peripheral hardware has reached setting Amount threshold on the basis of, continue to have accessed on an idle interface not only peripheral hardware (as but accessed on an idle Type C interface Type C peripheral hardware), then it can enable that the interface is corresponding enabled to be opened using controller 133 for interface of the new access peripheral hardware The first enabled switch OFF, the second enabled switch connection in the group of pass, make the corresponding power switch of the interface and second with this The connection of charger management chip chamber in power supply circuit is connected, and then is powered using charger management chip to the interface.Or Person can be from working as if interface of the new access peripheral hardware has only accessed the first power supply circuit 12 (not connected second power supply circuit 13) In the preceding each interface being powered using power management chip 121, selects while having accessed the first, second power supply circuit (or multiple) interface, and carry out accordingly making can control by enabled switching group to selected interface, so that by institute (or multiple) the interface switching at runtime chosen is to be powered using the charger management chip 131 of the second power supply circuit 13, together When, for newly accessing the interface of peripheral hardware, since it has only accessed the first power supply circuit 12, thus, it can directly utilize the first power supply Power supply power supply chip 121 in circuit 12 is powered to it.
In practical application, at least partly interface access the second power supply electricity at least one described interface may be selected to be Road 13 enables to supply using the charger management chip 131 of second power supply circuit 13 to interface whenever necessary Electricity shares the load of power management chip 121 with this, reduces its power management pressure, so reduce to power management chip and The requirement of its included inductance.
When it is implemented, can be by the related switch control instruction collection based on first condition of power supply, the second condition of power supply And the control function based on the switching control instruction collection is integrated in the existing embedded controller of electronic equipment (such as notebook) In (EC, embedded controller), and it can be added in the embedded controller simultaneously and enable to open corresponding at least one set of At least one set of pass group 132 makes to can control pin (EN_Q1 that EC includes in such as Fig. 3, EN_Q2), to set using electronics with this EC in standby realizes that the first power supply circuit 12 when being powered between at least one interface, the dynamic the second power supply circuit 13 are cut Change function.Certainly, in the application other embodiments, institute can also be realized using the form of additional setting independent control chip The function of controller 133 is stated, the present embodiment is not limited thereto.
It, specifically, can base when being powered using the charger management chip 131 in the second power supply circuit 13 to interface In the voltage conversion function of charger management chip 131, the respective counts for being provided supplying cell 11 by charger management chip 131 Threshold voltage is converted to the supply voltage of numerical value needed for interface, and then is supplied to interface, realizes and powers to interface.It is with notebook Example, in general, 6.5~8.8V direct current that Notebook Battery provides need to be converted to 5V direct current by charger management chip 131 Electricity, and then the supply voltage of 5V is provided to interface.
The present embodiment in the second power supply circuit by being arranged the controller and at least one described enabled switching group Including the first enabled switch, the second enabled switch, may make that from the first power supply circuit, the second power supply circuit be automatically interface Selection or switching at runtime meet the power supply circuit of control logic, by using the charger management chip in the second power supply circuit to Interface power supply, can effectively share the load of power management chip in the first power supply circuit, reduce its power management pressure, and then drop The low requirement to power management chip and its included inductance.
In the next embodiment three of the application, as shown in figure 4, the power supply unit can also be filled including at least one Circuit 14, the corresponding charging circuit of each interface;
Each charging circuit includes a charge switch 141, and the charge switch 141 is connected at least one described interface In the corresponding interface and the charger management chip 131 between, the charge switch 141 is for interface corresponding to it Connection when having adapter access, so that adapter is by the voltage conversion function of the charger management chip 131 to described Supplying cell 11 charges.
The charge switch 141 can equally be but not limited to mos pipe.
As it was noted above, the charger management chip 131 can be used for for example above-mentioned confession of the internal battery to electronic equipment Battery 11 carries out Charge Management, and the most basic function of charger management chip is belonged in the function quintessence.Specifically, when in institute State at least one interface one of couple in adapter when charging to electronic equipment, the charger management chip can be based on 131 voltage conversion function is converted to the voltage for the respective value that adapter provides needed for the supplying cell of electronic equipment Charging voltage, such as by taking notebook as an example, in general, the 20V that need to be provided adapter by the charger management chip 131 is straight 6.5~8.8V direct current needed for galvanic electricity is converted to supplying cell 11 is charged with realizing to supplying cell 11.
Wherein, if the system of electronic equipment has been turned on and runs when the supplying cell 11 to electronic equipment charges, Then the charger management chip 131 can also while will convert resulting 6.5~8.8V direct current and be supplied to power management chip 121, so that power management chip 121 may make to be directly based upon external power supply and be powered to equipment.
Wherein, electronic equipment couple in adapter equipment is powered using external power supply and/or to device battery into In the case where row charging, that is, using the Charge Management function of charger management chip 131, it is preferred that can not The power supply management function of reusing charger management chip 131 is powered to interface, that is to say, that in such cases, can preferentially be led to Power management chip 121 is crossed to be powered at least one described interface.
In such cases, illustratively, first condition of power supply can be set as:It need to meet any in the following conditions One of:Either interface couple in adapter at least one described interface, alternatively, the total interface at least one described interface It is not connected with having peripheral hardware access on the corresponding interface of second power supply circuit in non-couple in adapter and at least one described interface;
Matchingly, second condition of power supply can be set as:Total interface at least one described interface does not connect Enter adapter, and has peripheral hardware access on the corresponding interface being connected at least one described interface with second power supply circuit.
Reference table 1, table 1 are to be shown based on above-mentioned the first set condition of power supply, the second condition of power supply for Fig. 3 or Fig. 4 Power supply unit circuit diagram out, exemplary one provided group are used for each switch (the first enabled switch Q1, the second enabled switch Q2, charge switch Q3) carry out switch control control logic.
Table 1
Wherein, for the port B interface (i.e. Type-C B) in Fig. 3 or Fig. 4, since the interface has only accessed One power supply circuit 12, thus, when in the case where the interface having peripheral hardware (non-adapter) access, default uses the first power supply circuit 12 power management chip 121 is powered.
Here, it should be noted that merely exemplary show at least one described interface of Fig. 3 and Fig. 4 is 2 interfaces In the case of, a kind of possible circuit diagram of the power supply unit, in specific implementation, the quantity of the interface obviously be can be More quantity, and be not limited to that one of interface is only accessed second power supply circuit 13 in specific implementation.
In the present embodiment, both it can pass through the charger management chip in the case where electronic equipment couple in adapter Charge Management function charge to device battery, and can be filled in the case where meeting the second condition of power supply by described The power supply management function of electric appliance managing chip is powered to interface, so as to effectively share electronic equipment power management chip it is negative It carries, reduces its power management pressure, thereby reduce the requirement to power management chip and its included inductance.
It is a kind of method of supplying power to that the embodiment of the present application four provides on the basis of above-mentioned power supply unit with reference to Fig. 5, such as schemes Shown in 5, the method for supplying power to includes the following steps:
Step 101, when meeting the first condition of power supply, through the power management chip at least one described interface The corresponding interface power supply.
Wherein, first condition of power supply can be the condition according to set by actual service logic demand, this first The setting purpose of condition of power supply is:Under the premise of can satisfy the power demands of interface, mitigate the power management chip Load, and then reduce power management chip power management pressure.Therefore, can be set as can for first condition of power supply Show that the load of power management chip is not up to the correlated condition of the upper limit, the interface quantity for being such as currently accessed peripheral hardware is not up to set Amount threshold (as only a Type C interface accessed Type C peripheral hardware, load pressure is smaller, so as to directly pass through electricity The power supply of source control chip) etc.;Or the interface with power demands has only accessed the first power supply circuit, does not access the of the application Two power supply circuits etc. (in such cases, can only be powered, so as to be determined as that the interface meets the first confession using power management chip Electric condition).First condition of power supply can voluntarily determine by technical staff when carrying out product design according to demand, the present embodiment The content of first condition of power supply is not limited to.
Wherein, electronic equipment couple in adapter equipment is powered using external power supply and/or to device battery into In the case where row charging, that is, using the Charge Management function of charger management chip, it is preferred that can be no longer It is powered using the power supply management function of charger management chip to interface, that is to say, that in such cases, can preferentially pass through power supply Managing chip is powered at least one described interface.
In such cases, illustratively, first condition of power supply can be set as:It need to meet any in the following conditions One of:Either interface couple in adapter at least one described interface, alternatively, the total interface at least one described interface It is not connected with having peripheral hardware access on the corresponding interface of second power supply circuit in non-couple in adapter and at least one described interface.
In consideration of it, in this step, it can be in the either interface couple in adapter at least one described interface, alternatively, described The second power supply electricity is not connected in the non-couple in adapter of total interface and at least one described interface at least one interface When having peripheral hardware access on the corresponding interface on road, by the power management chip in second power supply circuit to it is described at least one The corresponding interface power supply in interface.
Step 102, when meeting the second condition of power supply, using charger management chip at least one described interface The corresponding interface power supply.
Second condition of power supply equally can be the condition according to set by actual service logic demand, and it sets Purpose is identical as the setting purpose of the first condition of power supply, is to mitigate institute under the premise of can satisfy the power demands of interface The load of power management chip is stated, and then reduces the power management pressure of power management chip.To second condition of power supply It can be the condition to match with first condition of power supply, such as can be and can show that the load of power management chip has reached (interface quantity for being such as currently accessed peripheral hardware has reached the amount threshold of setting to the correlated condition of the upper limit, thus for quantity is exceeded The charger management chip power supply of the second power supply circuit can be used in the interface of threshold value) etc..
Wherein, as a kind of possible implementation, with the above-mentioned Charge Management function using charger management chip In the case where charging to device battery, do not use preferably set when the progress interface power supply of charger management chip First condition of power supply matches, and can specifically be set as second condition of power supply:All at least one described interface connect The non-couple in adapter of mouth, and have peripheral hardware on the corresponding interface being connected at least one described interface with second power supply circuit Access.
In consideration of it, specifically can be in the non-couple in adapter of total interface at least one described interface in this step, and institute It states when having peripheral hardware access on the corresponding interface being connected at least one interface with second power supply circuit, utilizes charger pipe Manage the corresponding interface power supply of the chip at least one described interface.
Method of supplying power to provided in this embodiment, by utilizing the power supply management function of the charger management chip to interface Power supply, has effectively shared the load of the power management chip of electronic equipment, has reduced its power management pressure, thereby reduces pair The requirement of power management chip and its included inductance.
It is the structural schematic diagram of a kind of electronic equipment embodiment five provided by the present application, the electronic equipment can with reference to Fig. 6 To be the computer products such as notebook, as shown in fig. 6, the electronic equipment include at least one interface 61 and as above it is any Power supply unit 62 described in embodiment.
At least one described interface 61 can include but is not limited to all types of interfaces for being used to access peripheral hardware of electronic equipment, Such as accessing the Type C interface etc. of all types of Type C peripheral hardwares of Type C USB flash disk, Type C earphone.
As it was noted above, the power supply unit 62 includes supplying cell, the first power supply circuit with power management chip And the second power supply circuit with charger management chip, wherein when meeting the first condition of power supply, using the first power supply The corresponding interface power supply of the power management chip at least one interface of electronic equipment in circuit, is meeting the second confession When electric condition, using the charger management chip in the second power supply circuit at least one interface of electronic equipment The corresponding interface power supply.
It can be seen that (such as with the electronic equipment that is only capable of being powered interface using power management chip in the prior art Notebook) it compares, the electronic equipment of the application has also expanded the second power supply circuit and using the charging in the second power supply circuit Device managing chip is powered to interface, to share the load of power management chip, reduces its power management pressure, while The requirement to power management chip and its included inductance can be reduced.
It should be noted that all the embodiments in this specification are described in a progressive manner, each embodiment weight Point explanation is the difference from other embodiments, and the same or similar parts between the embodiments can be referred to each other.
For convenience of description, it describes to be divided into various modules when system above or device with function or unit describes respectively. Certainly, the function of each unit can be realized in the same or multiple software and or hardware when implementing the application.
As seen through the above description of the embodiments, those skilled in the art can be understood that the application can It realizes by means of software and necessary general hardware platform.Based on this understanding, the technical solution essence of the application On in other words the part that contributes to existing technology can be embodied in the form of software products, the computer software product It can store in storage medium, such as ROM/RAM, magnetic disk, CD, including some instructions are used so that a computer equipment (can be personal computer, server or the network equipment etc.) executes the certain of each embodiment of the application or embodiment Method described in part.
Finally, it is to be noted that, herein, such as first, second, third and fourth or the like relational terms It is only used to distinguish one entity or operation from another entity or operation, without necessarily requiring or implying these There are any actual relationship or orders between entity or operation.Moreover, the terms "include", "comprise" or its is any Other variants are intended to non-exclusive inclusion, so that including the process, method, article or equipment of a series of elements Include not only those elements, but also including other elements that are not explicitly listed, or further includes for this process, side Method, article or the intrinsic element of equipment.In the absence of more restrictions, limited by sentence "including a ..." Element, it is not excluded that there is also other identical elements in the process, method, article or apparatus that includes the element.
The above is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, it is noted that for the ordinary skill people of the art For member, various improvements and modifications may be made without departing from the principle of the present invention, these improvements and modifications are also answered It is considered as protection scope of the present invention.

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1. a kind of power supply unit, which is characterized in that for powering at least one interface, the power supply unit includes:
Supplying cell;
First power supply circuit is connected between the interface and the supplying cell at least one described interface, including with it is described The power management chip that supplying cell is connected, for when meeting the first condition of power supply, by the power management chip to The corresponding interface power supply at least one described interface;
Second power supply circuit is connected between the interface and the supplying cell at least one described interface, including with it is described The charger management chip that supplying cell is connected, for when meeting the second condition of power supply, by charger management chip to The corresponding interface power supply at least one described interface.
2. power supply unit according to claim 1, which is characterized in that first power supply circuit further includes at least one confession Electric switch;
The power management chip passes through each power switch at least one described power switch respectively with described at least one Each interface in a interface is connected, for when meeting the first condition of power supply, by least one described power switch The corresponding interface power supply of the respective switch in an ON state at least one described interface.
3. power supply unit according to claim 2, which is characterized in that second power supply circuit further includes:
At least one enabled switching group each includes the first enabled switch and the second enabled switch in enabled switching group;
Controller, any one or more switches being connected in the charger management chip and at least one described power switch Between, and the controller passes through the corresponding enabled switching group and described at least one at least one described enabled switching group A corresponding switch in a power switch is connected;The first enabled switch in a corresponding enabled switching group is connected to Between corresponding charge switch and the power management chip, and it is connected with the controller;Described corresponding one enabled switch The second enabled switch in group is connected between the corresponding charge switch and the charger management chip, and with the control Device is connected;
The controller is used for when meeting the first condition of power supply, and the first enabled switch in enabled corresponding enabled switching group is in On-state, the second enabled switch are in an off state so that using the power management chip to it is described at least one connect The corresponding interface power supply in mouthful;And for when meeting the second condition of power supply, second in enabled corresponding enabled switching group to make It can switch in an ON state, the first enabled switch is in an off state, so that just using the charger management chip The corresponding interface power supply of the underway OTG function at least one described interface.
4. power supply unit according to claim 3, which is characterized in that further include:
At least one charging circuit, the corresponding charging circuit of each interface;
Each charging circuit includes a charge switch, and the charge switch is connected to accordingly connecing at least one described interface Between mouth and the charger management chip, the charge switch connects when having adapter access on the interface corresponding to it It is logical, so that adapter is charged by the voltage conversion function of the charger management chip to the supplying cell.
5. power supply unit according to claim 4, which is characterized in that on the either interface at least one described interface When having adapter access, the charger management chip is also powered to the power management chip, so that the power management Chip is based on adapter and powers to each interface.
6. power supply unit according to claim 5, it is characterised in that:
First condition of power supply includes:The one of any of the following conditions need to be met:Any at least one described interface connects Mouth couple in adapter, alternatively, the non-couple in adapter of total interface and at least one described interface at least one described interface In be not connected with having peripheral hardware access on the corresponding interface of second power supply circuit;
Second condition of power supply includes:The non-couple in adapter of total interface at least one described interface, and it is described at least There is peripheral hardware access on the corresponding interface being connected in one interface with second power supply circuit.
7. according to the described in any item power supply units of claim 5 or 6, which is characterized in that the power switch, charge switch, First enabled switch and the second enabled switch are that mos is managed.
8. a kind of method of supplying power to, which is characterized in that for being powered using power supply unit at least one interface;The power supply unit Including:Supplying cell;First power supply circuit is connected between the interface and the supplying cell at least one described interface, Including the power management chip being connected with the supplying cell;Second power supply circuit is connected at least one described interface Interface and the supplying cell between, including the charger management chip being connected with the supplying cell;
The method of supplying power to includes:
When meeting the first condition of power supply, supplied by the corresponding interface of the power management chip at least one described interface Electricity;
When meeting the second condition of power supply, pass through the corresponding interface of the charger management chip at least one described interface Power supply.
9. according to the method described in claim 8, passing through the electricity it is characterized in that, described when meeting the first condition of power supply The corresponding interface power supply of the source control chip at least one described interface, including:
Either interface couple in adapter at least one described interface, alternatively, all at least one described interface connect It is not connected with having peripheral hardware to connect on the corresponding interface of second power supply circuit in the non-couple in adapter of mouth and at least one described interface It is fashionable, it is powered by the corresponding interface of the power management chip at least one described interface;
Correspondingly, described when meeting the second condition of power supply, using charger management chip at least one described interface The corresponding interface power supply, including:
The non-couple in adapter of total interface at least one described interface, and with described second at least one described interface When having peripheral hardware access on the corresponding interface that power supply circuit is connected, using charger management chip at least one described interface The corresponding interface power supply.
10. a kind of electronic equipment, which is characterized in that including:At least one interface and such as claim 1-7 are described in any item Power supply unit.
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