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WO2008007966A1 - Dispositif lecture de carte et de recharge de batterie - Google Patents

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WO2008007966A1
WO2008007966A1 PCT/NO2006/000282 NO2006000282W WO2008007966A1 WO 2008007966 A1 WO2008007966 A1 WO 2008007966A1 NO 2006000282 W NO2006000282 W NO 2006000282W WO 2008007966 A1 WO2008007966 A1 WO 2008007966A1
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Ng Hoi
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING OR CALCULATING; COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F1/00—Details not covered by groups G06F3/00 - G06F13/00 and G06F21/00
    • G06F1/26—Power supply means, e.g. regulation thereof
    • G06F1/266—Arrangements to supply power to external peripherals either directly from the computer or under computer control, e.g. supply of power through the communication port, computer controlled power-strips
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING OR CALCULATING; COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F1/00—Details not covered by groups G06F3/00 - G06F13/00 and G06F21/00
    • G06F1/16—Constructional details or arrangements
    • G06F1/1613—Constructional details or arrangements for portable computers
    • G06F1/1632—External expansion units, e.g. docking stations

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  • the present invention relates to a card reading and battery recharging device. More specific, the invention relates to a card reading and battery recharging device for reading data from and writing data to an IC memory card and for charging the batteries of an electronic device, such as portable multimedia devices, cellular phones, handheld PDAs, GPS devices etc.
  • the object is to avoid this by providing a universal solution, which employs the electronic device's own control, thus avoiding the need for any extra equipment apart from only the back-up battery, which can then be purchased anywhere and employed immediately.
  • a solution is disclosed where different electrical devices such as a torch or the like can be connected to a cellular telephone battery through suitable connection points.
  • the cellular telephone battery it will also be possible to connect the cellular telephone battery to an additional battery in parallel connection.
  • the disadvantage is that the connected battery has to be specially adapted to the cellular telephone's battery with regard to voltage level, etc., which in turn makes the solution inflexible.
  • an electronic control circuit for the connection is preferable.
  • EP 0 657 982 Another type of battery use system for portable electric equipment comprising a switch control circuit is shown in EP 0 657 982. It shall be noted that most cellular phones and other electronic devices comprises an inboard control circuit between the charger contact and the inboard rechargeable battery. The inboard control circuit controls the voltage level and/or current level to protect the battery from damaging overvoltages or other voltage/current levels that may deteriorate its operating life.
  • the inboard control circuit controls the voltage level and/or current level to protect the battery from damaging overvoltages or other voltage/current levels that may deteriorate its operating life.
  • Wireless Week the December 2000 issue, it was described an instant power charger for a cell phone which can be recharged by means of a battery charger. No back-up battery is mentioned or shown and no control circuit is described. The same product is mentioned in an article by Yardena Arar in PCWorld, dated November 15. 2000. The article describes a battery which draws oxygen from the atmosphere to generate electrical power. The battery is available for mobile phones and can be recharged by means of a re
  • a battery use system for a battery-driven portable electronic device comprising a first chargeable battery and a second battery connected in parallel to the first battery through a switch.
  • the switch is closed to charge the first battery by the second battery when the output voltage from the first battery becomes smaller than a predetermined value, i.e. a voltage drop occurs.
  • a battery charger for a mobile apparatus comprising a battery charged from a vehicle battery.
  • a timer is supplied by the voltage of the outside battery via a diode and sets a charging time.
  • the timer is arranged to be powered from the battery via a transistor during such temporal voltage reductions.
  • a portable battery charger for rechargeable battery powered appliances comprising a housing, batteries that is inserted into the housing, connection means for connecting the poles of the batteries to the poles of the direct current power system of the battery powered appliance. There is no circuitry to control or adjust the output voltage to the battery powered appliance.
  • EP 0 907 234 A2 it is shown a battery charging system where a charging battery comprising a number of n+m cells is charging a working battery comprising a number of n cells. It shall be noted that the charging battery is directly connected to the working battery.
  • a rechargeable battery pack suitable for cellular phones or other electronic devices comprising at least one rechargeable cell, at least one primary cell (typical a conventional battery of size AAA) and a rechargeable cell recharger including a voltage converter.
  • the voltage converter receives an output voltage from the primary cell and converts it to a second voltage suitable for recharging the rechargeable cell.
  • a disadvantage here is that the voltage converter is rather complex and expensive.
  • USB memory stick or USB pen drive
  • files are stored on a flash memory from a computer via the USB interface.
  • USB memory sticks There are several types of such memory sticks known.
  • US 6,932,276 it is shown a pen integrated with a card reader. Cards, such as SD cards, SIM cards and similar can be connected to the pen, and data can be transferred via the pen to a computer by means of USB connectors.
  • the object of the present invention is to provide a card reading and battery recharging device, where data can be read from and written on the digital memory when the device is connected to a computer, and where the rechargeable battery can be used as a spare battery for an electronic device when the device is connected to the electronic device. It is a further object that the device is small and easily portable.
  • the device according to the invention also comprises a pen device.
  • the present invention relates to a card reading and battery recharging device for reading data from and writing data to an IC memory card and for charging the batteries of an electronic device, comprising: - a first connection device in a first end of a housing, for connection to the electronic device; a second connection device in a second end of the housing, for connection to a computer device; a card slot in the housing for insertion of the IC memory card into a card reading device inside the housing, a rechargeable battery inside the housing; a control circuit connected to the first and second connection devices, the card reading device and the rechargeable battery, for controlling the voltage and/or current supplied to the electronic device from the rechargeable battery, and for transferring data between the IC memory card and the computer device via the second connection device.
  • the device comprises a first protective cover for the first connection device and a second protective cover for the second connection device.
  • the device further comprises a pen device removably connected to the second end of the housing.
  • control circuit comprises a boost device which increases the output voltage and/or current value to a level above the lower threshold value of an inboard control circuit of the electronic device.
  • device comprises a first LED device for indicating an ON/OFF state.
  • the device comprises a second LED device for indicating an reading/writing state for the SD card reading device.
  • the invention also relates to a pen device with card reader and rechargeable battery, comprising: an elongated pen tube with a pen tip in a first end thereof; a housing removably connected to a second end of the pen tube; a first connection device in a first end of the housing, for connection to the electronic device; a second connection device in a second end of the housing, for connection to a computer device; - a card slot in the housing for insertion of the IC memory card into a card reading device inside the housing, a rechargeable battery inside the housing; a control circuit connected to the first and second connection devices the card reading device and the rechargeable battery, for controlling the voltage and/or current supplied to the electronic device from the rechargeable battery, and for transferring data between the IC memory card and the computer device via the second connection device.
  • Fig. Ia and Ib shows a first embodiment of the invention with and without protective covers respectively;
  • Fig. 2 shows an exploded view of a second embodiment of the invention
  • Fig. 3 shows the electrical components of the embodiments schematically.
  • a first preferred embodiment of the card reading and battery recharging device 1 according to the invention will now be described in details with reference to the drawings.
  • the embodiment is adapted for use with a electronic device of type cellular phone (here a NOKIA (registered trademark) cellular phone).
  • the electronic device comprises a contact for connecting to a battery charger.
  • An inboard control circuit is connected between the contact and the inboard rechargeable battery of the electronic device.
  • the main purpose of the inboard control circuit of the electronic device is to protect the rechargeable battery and to provide a desired voltage and/or current to the rechargeable battery. Therefore, the inboard control circuit controls whether the voltage and/or current supplied by the charger is within certain acceptable boundaries.
  • the inbound control circuit defines a lower threshold value and an upper threshold value for the input voltage of the contact. If the output voltage of the charger is below the lower threshold value or above the upper threshold value, no charging of the battery will occur.
  • the first embodiment of the card reading and rechargeable battery device 1 is shown in fig. Ia and Ib and comprises a housing 10 with a first connection device 12 in a first end of the device 1 and a second connection device 14 in a second end of the device 1.
  • the housing also comprises one or more transparent areas 15 where light from a LED (LED: Light Emitting Diode) on the inside of the housing can be emitted, which will be described in detail below.
  • LED Light Emitting Diode
  • the housing 10 further comprises a slot 20 for insertion of a SD memory card 30 (SD: Secure Digital) into a SD card reader/writer 32.
  • SD Secure Digital
  • card reader and card reading device are used to describe a device that performs both reading digital data from the card and writing digital data to the card.
  • the first connection device 12 can be connected to the said contact of the cellular phone.
  • the first connection device 12 can preferably be protected by a removable protective cover 16.
  • the protective cover 16 preferably comprises a fastening means 17, such as a clip or similar, for fastening the device 1 to a pocket or a notepad etc.
  • the second connection device 14 is a USB connector (USB: Universal Series Bus) for connection to a USB slot of a computer such as a PC or another computer device.
  • USB Universal Series Bus
  • An operative system is installed on the computer, which makes the computer able to transfer data via the USB interface to the device 1.
  • the second connection device 14 can preferably be protected by a removable protective cover 18.
  • the second embodiment of the computer memory and rechargeable memory device 1 is shown in fig. 2.
  • This embodiment comprises the same components as the first embodiment described above (except for the protective cover 18), and the same reference numbers are used.
  • the second embodiment comprises a pen device 22.
  • the pen device 22 has a first end adapted to be releasably fastened to the second connection device 14 and a second end comprising a ball pen 24.
  • the pen device 22 contains an ink reservoir (not shown) for providing ink to the ball pen 24.
  • the second embodiment of the device 1 also comprises a removable protective cover 26 to protect the ball pen 24, thereby preventing ink leakage, ink stains on clothes etc.
  • the electronic components of the device 1 will now be described with reference to fig. 3.
  • the first connecting device 12, the second connecting device 14 and the SD card reader/writer are connected to a control circuit 40 inside the housing 10. Moreover, a rechargeable battery 42, a first LED device 44 indicating an ON/OFF state and a second LED device 46 indicating when reading from or writing to the SD card 30 are also connected to the control circuit 40.
  • the control circuit 40 preferably comprises a voltage booster or DC-DC converter, which increases/decreases the output voltage level of the first connection device 12 when the output voltage level is lower/higher than the lower threshold voltage of the inboard control circuit of the cellular phone.
  • the control circuit 40 performs the following operations:
  • a charging state is initiated by the control circuit 40. Consequently, a voltage from the rechargeable battery 42 is applied to terminals of the connection device 12 and the inbound rechargeable battery of the cellular phone starts to charge.
  • the first LED device 44 is turned on to indicate an ON state.
  • a current sensing element of the control circuit 40 preferably senses when the inbound rechargeable battery of the cellular phone is full (i.e. the current flow to the cellular phone decreases to zero) and the charging state is stopped.
  • the first LED device 44 is turned OFF to indicate that the inbound rechargeable battery of the cellular phone is fully recharged.
  • a current sensing element of the control circuit preferably senses that there is no current flowing from the connection device 14 to the rechargeable battery, and the charging state is stopped.
  • the first LED device 44 is turned OFF to indicate that the rechargeable battery 42 is fully recharged.
  • the control circuit 40 When the device 1 is connected to the computer described above, the control circuit 40 also performs a check whether an SD memory card 30 is present in the SD card reader/writer 32 or not. If present, it is possible to read from and write to the SD memory card 30 via the USB interface by means of the computer. During a reading and writing process, the second LED device 46 is turned ON. when the device 1 is connected both to the electronic device and to the computer, both rechargeable batteries will be charged.
  • the SD memory card is used as the computer memory. It would of course be possible to provide the device 1 with another type of IC card, such as a SIM card, an MMC card, an xD picture card, a CompactFlash card, a SmartMedia card etc. If another type of IC card is used, an appropriate card reader/writer must be provided accordingly.
  • IC card such as a SIM card, an MMC card, an xD picture card, a CompactFlash card, a SmartMedia card etc. If another type of IC card is used, an appropriate card reader/writer must be provided accordingly.
  • the second connection device 14 is an USB connector. It would of course be possible to replace the USB connector with a Firewire connector.
  • the connecting device 12 would be adapted to fit the charger contact of the electronic device.
  • the control device 40 must give output voltage/current values that is adapted to the threshold values of the inboard control device of the electronic device in the charging state.
  • LED devices can be switched ON/OFF in other ways, for example it would be possible to indicate that an SD memory card is present rather than indicating when reading/writing is performed. LED devices with three different states (RED/GREEN/OFF) can also be used to signal different states to the user.

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Abstract

La présente invention concerne un dispositif de lecture de carte et de recharge de batterie pour lire des données et écrire des données sur une mémoire à CI et pour charger les batteries d'un dispositif électronique, comprenant : - un premier dispositif de connexion (12) dans une première extrémité d'un logement (10), à raccorder au dispositif électronique, - un second dispositif de connexion (14) dans une seconde extrémité du logement (10), à raccorder à un dispositif informatique, - une fente de carte (20) dans le logement (10) pour insertion de la carte mémoire à CI dans un dispositif de lecture de carte (32) dans le logement (10), - une batterie rechargeable (42) à l'intérieur du logement (10), - un circuit de commande (40) relié au premier et au second dispositif de connexion (12, 14), le dispositif de lecture de carte (32) et la batterie rechargeable (42), pour commander la tension ou le courant fourni au dispositif électronique depuis la batterie rechargeable (42), et à transférer les données entre la carte de mémoire à CI et le dispositif électronique via le second dispositif de connexion (14).
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