Patent Grant
12328021
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of electronic devices, in particular to an electronic device.
In the related art, during some electronic devices being charged, a current may arrive a second board first from a power interface, then be transported from the second board to a first board through a flexible circuit board, and further be transported from the first board to a battery through another flexible circuit board, and accordingly a charging path is relatively long. In response to the electronic devices are quickly charged in a current increasing manner, due to a current flowing path being relatively long and a current flow being relatively large, a current loss may be easy to be caused, such that a heat during the electronic devices being charged may be increased and a charging efficiency may be reduced. Furthermore, the electronic devices may be burnt, even safety accidents may be caused, such as the electronic devices on fire, the batteries explosions, and so on.
The present disclosure aims to solve at least one of the technical problems in the related art. An electronic device is provided in the present disclosure and has a short charging path and low heat as charging, and high safety and so on.
According to a first aspect of the present disclosure, an electronic device is provided and includes a housing defined with a power interface on the housing; a battery arranged in the housing and including a battery protection board and a cell; a circuit board assembly arranged in the housing, electrically connected to the power interface, and including a first board located at one side of the battery, a second board located at the other side of the battery, a first flexible circuit board connected to the battery protection board and the first board, and a second flexible circuit board connected to the battery protection board and the second board. The first board and the second board are arranged at intervals along a first direction, and the battery protection board and the cell are arranged in sequence along a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction. The electronic device according to the present disclosure has a short charging path and low heat as charging, and high safety and so on.
According to a second aspect of the present disclosure, an electronic device is provided and includes a housing including a first side edge, a second side edge opposite to and substantially parallel to the first side edge, and having a power interface, a third side edge substantially perpendicular to the first side edge, and a fourth side edge opposite to and substantially parallel to the third side edge; a battery arranged in the housing and including a cell and a battery protection board arranged at a side of the cell close to the third side edge or the second side edge; and a circuit board assembly arranged in the housing, electrically connected to the power interface, and including a first board arranged at a side of the battery close to the first side edge, a second board arranged at a side of the battery close to the second side edge, a first flexible circuit board connected the battery protection board and the first board, and a second flexible circuit board, connected the battery protection board and the second board. The electronic device according to the present disclosure has a short charging path and low heat as charging, and high safety and so on.
The embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in detail below. Examples of the embodiments may be illustrated in the drawings. Same or similar reference numerals may be used to indicate same or similar elements or elements having same or similar functions. The embodiments described below with reference to the drawings are illustrative, and are not intended to be construed as limitations.
The following disclosure provides many different embodiments or examples for implementing different structures of the present disclosure. In order to simplify the present disclosure, components and arrangements of specific examples are described below. Of course, these are merely examples, and are not intended to limit the present disclosure. In addition, reference numerals and/or reference letters are repeated in different examples of the present disclosure. The repetition is for the purpose of simplicity and clarity, and do not indicate the relationship between various embodiments and/or arrangements discussed herein. Moreover, examples of various specific processes and materials are provided in the present disclosure. However, those skilled in the art may recognize applications of other processes and/or usages of other materials.
According to a first aspect of the present disclosure, an electronic device is provided and includes: a housing defined with a power interface on the housing; a battery arranged in the housing, and including a battery protection board and a cell; a circuit board assembly arranged in the housing, electrically connected to the power interface, and including a first board located at one side of the battery; a second board located at the other side of the battery, a first flexible circuit board connected to the battery protection board and the first board, and a second flexible circuit board connected to the battery protection board and the second board. The first board and the second board are arranged at intervals along a first direction, and the battery protection board and the cell are arranged in sequence along a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction.
In some embodiments, a length direction of the battery protection board is a direction from the first board to the second board, and the battery protection board is arranged at a side portion between of space the first board and the second board.
In some embodiments, the first flexible circuit board is connected to a side portion of the first board close to the battery protection board, and the second flexible circuit board is connected to a side portion of the second board close to the battery protection board.
In some embodiments, the first flexible circuit board is connected to one end of a length direction of the battery protection board, and the second flexible circuit board is connected to the other end of the length direction of the battery protection board.
In some embodiments, the length direction of the battery protection board is a length direction of the electronic device.
In some embodiments, wherein the housing includes a first side edge, a second side edge opposite to and substantially parallel to the first side edge, a third side edge and a fourth side edge opposite to and substantially parallel to the third side edge. The first side edge is arranged at one side of a length direction of the third side edge and the fourth side edge, the second side edge is arranged at the other side of the length direction of the third side edge and the fourth side edge, the first board is arranged at a side of the second board close to the first side edge, the second board is arranged at a side of the first board close to the second side edge, and the battery protection board is substantially parallel to the third side edge and the fourth side edge.
In some embodiments, the power interface includes a first sub power interface arranged on the first side edge, and the first sub power interface is electrically connected to the first board to charge the battery through the first flexible circuit board.
In some embodiments, the power interface includes a second sub power interface arranged on the second side edge, and the second sub power interface is electrically connected to the second board to charge the battery through the second flexible circuit board.
In some embodiments, the power interface includes a third sub power interface arranged on the third side edge, the third sub power interface is located in an orthographic projection of the first board on the third side edge, and electrically connected to the first board to charge the battery through the first flexible circuit board.
In some embodiments, the power interface includes a fourth sub power interface arranged on the third side edge, the fourth sub power interface is located in an orthographic projection of the second board on the third side edge, and electrically connected to the second board to charge the battery through the second flexible circuit board.
In some embodiments, a distance between a side portion of the battery protection board close to the fourth side edge and the third side edge is less than that between the side portion of the battery protection board and the fourth side edge.
In some embodiments, the circuit board assembly further includes a transition board connected to the first board and the second board.
In some embodiments, the transition board includes a third flexible circuit board connected to the first board and the second board, and the third flexible circuit is arranged on a side of the battery in a thickness direction of the battery
According to a second aspect of the present disclosure, an electronic device is provided and includes: a housing including a first side edge, a second side edge opposite to and substantially parallel to the first side edge, and having a power interface, a third side edge substantially perpendicular to the first side edge, and a fourth side edge opposite to and substantially parallel to the third side edge; a battery arranged in the housing, including a cell, and a battery protection board arranged at a side of the cell close to the third side edge or the second side edge; and a circuit board assembly arranged in the housing, electrically connected to the power interface, and including a first board arranged at a side of the battery close to the first side edge, a second board arranged at a side of the battery close to the second side edge, a first flexible circuit board connected the battery protection board and the first board, and a second flexible circuit board connected the battery protection board and the second board.
In some embodiments, a length direction of the battery protection board is a direction from the first board to the second board, and the battery protection board is arranged at a side portion of space between the first board and the second board.
In some embodiments, the first flexible circuit board is connected to a side portion of the first board close to the battery protection board, and the second flexible circuit board is connected to a side portion of the second board close to the battery protection board.
In some embodiments, the battery protection board is substantially parallel to the third side edge and the fourth side edge.
According to a third aspect of the present disclosure, an electronic device is provided and includes: a housing defined with a power interface on the housing; a battery arranged in the housing, and including a battery protection board and a cell; a circuit board assembly arranged in the housing, electrically connected to the power interface, and including a first board located at one side of the battery; a second board located at the other side of the battery, a first flexible circuit board connected to the battery protection board and the first board, and a second flexible circuit board connected to the battery protection board and the second board. The first board and the second board are arranged along a first direction, and the battery protection board is arranged at a side portion of space between the first board and the second board along a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction.
In some embodiments, the battery protection board and the cell are arranged in sequence along the second direction.
In some embodiments, the first flexible circuit board is connected to a side portion of the first board close to the battery protection board, and the second flexible circuit board is connected to a side portion of the second board close to the battery protection board.
In the related art, during some electronic devices being charged, a current may arrive a second board first from a power interface, then be transported from the second board to a first board through a flexible circuit board, and further be transported from the first board to a battery through another flexible circuit board, and accordingly a charging path is relatively long. In response to the electronic devices are quickly charged in a current increasing manner, due to a current flowing path being relatively long and a current flow being relatively large, a current loss may be easy to be caused, such that a heat during the electronic devices being charged may be increased and a charging efficiency may be reduced. Furthermore, the electronic devices may be burnt, even safety accidents may be caused, such as the electronic devices on fire, the batteries explosions, and so on. Therefore, an electronic device 100 is provided in the present disclosure and has a short charging path and low heat as charging, and high safety and so on.
An electronic device 100 according to embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in the following, with reference to the accompanying drawings.
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That is, the battery 2 is sandwiched between the first board 31 and the second board 32, and the battery protection board 21 is located at a side of the cell 22, which is not the case that the battery protection board 21 is located at a side of the cell 22 close to the first board 31, or located at a side of the cell 22 close to the second board 32. In this way, a length of the first flexible circuit board 33 connecting the first board 31 and the battery protection board 21 may be configured to be shorter, and a length of the second flexible circuit board 34 connecting the second board 32 and the battery protection board 21 may also be configured to be shorter.
In this way, through the battery protection board 21 being located at the side of the cell 22, the first flexible circuit board 33 being connected to the battery protection board 21 and the first board 31, and the second flexible circuit board 34 being connected to the battery protection board 21 and the second board 32, a current transmission path between the battery 2 and the first board 31 and a current transmission path between the battery 2 and the second board 32 may be effectively reduced. In this way, whether the first board 31 and the first flexible circuit board 33 are used to charge the battery 2, or the second board 32 and the second flexible circuit board 34 are used to charge the battery 2, a charging path may be reduced. Heat generated as charging, charging efficiency and charging safety may be improved. In addition, in response to one of the first flexible circuit board 33 and the second flexible circuit board 34 is used to charge the battery 2, the other one of the first flexible circuit board 33 and the second flexible circuit board 34 may be used to discharge the battery 2, such that a power supply need may be satisfied and the electronic device 100 may be ensured to be work normally.
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For example, in some specific embodiments of the present disclosure, the power interface 10 is connected with the second board 32, in which case the second flexible circuit board 34 may be used to the second board to charge the battery 2, and the first flexible circuit board 33 may be used to the battery 2 to discharge the first board. Moreover, in the present embodiment, there are a plurality of ways for the second board 32 to obtain a discharge from the battery 2, for example, the battery 2 may discharge the second board 32 by the second flexible circuit board 34 in response to the power interface 10 being not connected to the power outlet. For another example, in response to the circuit board assembly 3 includes a transition board 30 connected to the first board 31 and the second board 32, the battery 2 may also discharge the second board 32 by the transition board 30, such that a discharge from the battery to the first board 31 may also be transited to the second board 32 through the transition board 30.
Therefore, the battery protection board 21 is arranged at a side of the battery 2 such that the first board 31 may be arranged at one side of a length direction of the battery protection board 21 and the second board 32 may be arranged at the other side of the length direction of the battery protection board 21. In this way, two flexible circuit board may be extended out from the battery protection board 21, that is, the first flexible circuit board 33 used to connected to the first board 31 and the second flexible circuit board 34 used to connected to the second board 32. Thus, in response to the second board 32 being connected to the power interface 10, the second flexible circuit board 34 may be used as a charging flexible circuit board to charge the battery 2 through the second board 32 being connected to the power interface 10, and the first flexible circuit board 33 may be used as a discharging flexible circuit board to make the battery 2 supply power to the first board 31. Similarly, in response to the first board 31 being connected to the power interface 10, the first flexible circuit board 33 may be used as a charging flexible circuit board to charge the battery 2 through the first board 31 being connected to the power interface 10, and the second flexible circuit board 34 may be used as a discharging flexible circuit board to make the battery 2 supply power to the second board 32.
A heating loss calculation formula during a charging process of the battery 2 is P=I2R, wherein I is a charging current and R is a loop impedance, since the present disclosure can reduce a length of the flexible circuit board used to charge the battery 2, a charging loop impedance R may be reduced, and a reduction amount of R is related to the length of the battery 2, such that the heating loss may be reduced and the charging efficiency may be improved, which may be more significant in a case of high-current charging.
In short, the electronic device 100 according to the embodiments of the present disclosure, since the first board 31 is arranged at one side of a length direction of the battery protection board 21 and the second board 32 is arranged at the other side of the length direction of the battery protection board 21, that is, the battery 2 is arranged at a side portion of space between the first board 31 and the second board 32. Further, the first flexible circuit board 33 and the second flexible circuit board 34 are arranged, such that the charging path may be shortened to reduce the heating as charging, and the user experience may be improved.
It should be noted that a composition and function of “the battery protection board 21” are well known to those skilled in the art. That is, for a rechargeable battery 2, such as a lithium battery, an integrated circuit board acting as a protective role, etc., for example, for the rechargeable lithium battery, a reason why a protection is needed is determined by its own characteristics. A material of the lithium battery itself determines that it cannot be overcharged, over discharged, with an overcurrent, with a short circuit, and charged and discharged under an ultra-high temperature, thus the lithium battery always be with a protection board with a sampling resistor and a current fuse. Therefore, it will not be repeated here.
In addition, after a specific type of the electronic device 100 is determined, a specific composition and function of the “the first board 31” and the “the second board 32” are also well known to those skilled in the art. For example, in a case that the electronic device 100 is a smart phone, those skilled in the art can clearly understand what the first board 31″ and “the second board 32” refer to. Of course, the electronic device 100 according to the embodiments of the present disclosure is not limited to a smart phone, for example, may be a tablet computer, a vehicle-mounted computer, etc., and no limitation is made here.
It should be noted that the cell 22 may be one or multiple, and the battery protection board 21 is connected to tabs of each of the cells 22. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the battery 2 may have only one cell 22. In other embodiments of the present disclosure, the battery 2 may also have multiple cells 22, and the multiple cells 22 are connected in series and/or in shunts, that is, the multiple cells 22 may be connected in series, or the multiple cells 22 may be connected in shunts, or the multiple cells 22 may be connected first in series and then in shunts, or the multiple cells 22 may be connected first in shunts and then in series, etc. In this way, different practical requirements may be satisfied.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the circuit board assembly 3 may include the transition board 30 connected to the first board and the second board. In response to the battery 2 discharging to the first board 31 through the first flexible circuit board 33, the first board 31 may discharge to the second board 32 through the transition board 30. In response to the battery 2 discharging to the second board 32 through the second flexible circuit board 34, the second board 32 may discharge to the first board 31 through the transition board 30. In this way, the electronic device may be work normally.
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It should be noted that a number and a specific arrangement location of the power interface 10 are not limited. The specific locations of the power interface 10 in some embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in the following, but the present disclosure is not limited to the following embodiments.
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In a specific embodiment of the present disclosure, the battery 2 is configured to be a structure where the battery protection board 21 is arranged on a side, the first flexible circuit board 33 extends out from one end of the battery protection board 21 and connected to the first board 31, and the second flexible circuit board 34 extends out from the other end of the battery protection board 21 and connected to the first board 31. The power interface 10 is arranged at a position close to the second board 32. The secondary board 32 charges the battery 2 through the second flexible circuit board 34, and the battery 2 discharges to the first board 31 through the first flexible circuit board 33, so as to shorten the charging path and improve a charging effect. In addition, in the embodiments of the present disclosure, the power interface 10 may be arranged at a bottom, a side, or even a top of the electronic device 100, such that the charging path may be shortened, the heating as charging may be reduced, and the user experience may be improved. Moreover, in the embodiments of the present disclosure, the first board 31 and the second board 32 may be arranged to be a separate form by the third flexible circuit board 36, or may be arranged to be an integral form by the rigid circuit board 35, which is not limited.
In a specific embodiment of the present disclosure, in
Of course, the present disclosure is not limited to thereto. In other embodiments of the present disclosure, the battery protection board 21 may also be arranged in other positions of the electronic device 100. For example, in the embodiment shown in
In addition, other configurations and operations of the electronic device 100 according to the embodiments of the present disclosure are known to those of ordinary skill in the art after the type of the electronic device 100 is determined, which will not be described in detail here.
In the description of the present specification, the description with reference to the terms “one embodiment”, “some embodiments”, “illustrative embodiment”, “example”, “specific example”, or “some examples”, and the like, means that a specific feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the present disclosure. Thus, the illustrative descriptions of the terms throughout this specification are not necessarily referring to the same embodiment or example of the present disclosure. Furthermore, the specific features, structures, materials, or characteristics may be combined in any suitable manner in one or more embodiments or examples. In addition, various embodiments or examples described in the specification and features of various embodiments or examples, may be incorporated and combined by those skilled in the art in case of an absence of confliction.
Although the embodiments of the present disclosure have been shown and described, those of ordinary skill in the art can understand that various changes, modifications, substitutions and variations can be made to the embodiments without departing from the principle and purpose of the present disclosure. The scope of the present disclosure is defined by the claims and the equivalents of the claims.
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