Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Sean Kwon

Taewoo Kim

Myoung-Dae Jin

Gyudae Jang

Jung-Bae Jeon

Kyungdon Nam

Jinyeol Park

Hyung-Geun Choi

Nam-Min Jo

Kyungmin Ryu

Chang-Hee Yoo

Disclosed are a method for controlling an operation of a battery on the basis of the state thereof, and an electronic device for supporting the same. The electronic device includes: a battery connector including multiple terminals; a battery detection circuit configured to detect whether a battery is connected to the battery connector; a short-circuit detection circuit configured to detect whether a battery identification (ID) terminal among the multiple terminals is short to a ground, based at least partly on a level of a voltage measured at the battery ID terminal and a predetermined voltage level; and a processor, wherein the processor may be configured to: acquire, from the battery detection circuit, a first signal related to whether the battery is connected to the battery connector; determine whether the battery is connected to the battery connector, based at least partly on the first signal; acquire, from the short-circuit detection circuit, a second signal related to whether the battery ID terminal is short-circuited to the ground; based at least in part on the first and second signals, determining whether: the battery is not connected; the battery is properly connected; or the battery is improperly connected; and control an operation of the battery based at least partly on determining whether the battery is not connected, the battery is properly connected, or the battery is improperly connected.

Method for controlling operation of battery on basis of state thereof, and electronic device for supporting same

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Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Sean Kwon