Soongsil University

Yongju Jang

Seongsoo Lee

Sangho Kim

Hyeoncheol Yang

JaeHo Lim

Disclosed is a portable terminal, a battery pack and an apparatus for controlling a battery unit. The battery pack includes k battery units, wherein k is an integer of 2 or more; a power supply control unit that conducts control operation such that at least one of the k battery units supplies a power to a load by a time period, and other battery units except for the at least one are in an idle state in a whole or part of the time period.

Portable terminal battery pack and apparatus and method for controlling battery unit of the battery pack to extend battery use time

Disclosed are a battery power control device, a portable device and a method of controlling the portable device. The disclosed portable device includes a workload calculator which calculates a workload necessary to provide the specific service to the user according to at least one of time request information related to a desired time during which the specific service is provided to the user and QoS (Quality of Service) request information related to a quality of the specific service, the necessary workload being smaller than a default workload that is preset for providing the specific service; a task performer which performs a task for providing the specific service according to the necessary workload during a time that is reduced to be shorter than a task performance time according to the default workload and stop the task performance during the reduced time; and a battery unit which supplies a power for performing the task to the task performer.

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Suwon, South Korea

Yongju Jang