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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2021

Filed:

Mar. 14, 2018
Applicant:

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Inventors:

Ku-Chul Jung, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Chui-Woo Park, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Sang-Hyun Ryu, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Min-Jung Park, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Jeong-Ho Lee, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Chi-Hyun Cho, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/26 (2006.01); H02J 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/263 (2013.01); H02J 7/008 (2013.01); H02J 7/0047 (2013.01); H02J 7/0069 (2020.01); H02J 7/0071 (2020.01); H02J 7/0068 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed is an electronic device including a battery; an interface that receives an external power; a system circuit including a processor; and a power management circuit, wherein the power management circuit is configured to detect an input of the external power through the interface; identify a voltage of the battery in response to the detection of the input of the external power; when the voltage of the battery belongs to a first designated voltage range, avoid charging the battery using the input external power and supply the input external power to the system circuit; and when the voltage of the battery belongs to a second designated voltage range, charge the battery using at least some of the input external power.


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