Abstract: A battery charger has a particularly advantageous application in the field of mobile radio terminal batteries. The charger generates an output voltage and an output current for charging a battery and includes a first regulator, a second regulator for regulating the output voltage to a predetermined value, a detector for detecting the output current, and an activation system which assumes at least two states. In a first state it activates the first regulator when the detector detects a negative or positive output current, and in a second state it activates the second regulator when the detector means detect a substantially zero output current.

Abstract: A voltage regulator for an electronic device, the regulator supplying a regulated output voltage from an input voltage, the output voltage being applied to an electronic subsystem of the electronic device adapted to be supplied with power, said regulator comprising a controller receiving the input voltage, a capacitor situated at the output of the regulator and adapted to be charged periodically by the input voltage and periodically to supply its charge to the electronic subsystem of the electronic device when said electronic subsystem requires to be supplied with power, the capacitor being connected in parallel with a feedback network for sampling a portion of the output voltage and supplying a measured value of the output voltage to the controller, the feedback network comprising at least two transistors, a voltage comparator, and a switch situated between the output of the comparator and the input of the controller, which voltage regulator is characterized in that a switch is inserted into the feedback net

Abstract: A battery charger has a particularly advantageous application in the field of mobile radio terminal batteries. The charger generates an output voltage and an output current for charging a battery and includes a first regulator, a second regulator for regulating the output voltage to a predetermined value, a detector for detecting the output current, and an activation system which assumes at least two states. In a first state it activates the first regulator when the detector detects a negative or positive output current, and in a second state it activates the second regulator when the detector means detect a substantially zero output current.

Abstract: To solve a problem due to a transient regulation phenomenon (6) at the time of an increase in power demand (1) in a mobile telephone, the regulator is pre-compensated (7) at a time (T′) in advance of a predicted time (T) of the increase in electrical power demand in the mobile telephone. As a result, a power supply voltage (Vr) crossing an operating threshold (3) outside a period of use has no harmful effect on the operation of the mobile appliance.

Abstract: A method of charging a battery in which the end of charging is determined by detecting variations in the battery temperature includes the following steps: entering a charging mode, periodically measuring the battery temperature, measuring the variation in the battery temperature per unit time, comparing the battery temperature variation per unit time to a first threshold corresponding to variation of the ambient temperature and the battery temperature, and in this case terminating the charging mode, and to variation of only the ambient temperature, and in this case comparing the battery temperature variation per unit time to a second threshold corresponding to variation of only the battery temperature and terminating the charging mode.

Abstract: A method of charging a battery in which the end of charging is determined by detecting variations in the battery temperature includes the following steps: entering a charging mode, periodically measuring the battery temperature, measuring the variation in the battery temperature per unit time, comparing the battery temperature variation per unit time to a first threshold corresponding to variation of the ambient temperature and the battery temperature, and in this case terminating the charging mode, and to variation of only the ambient temperature, and in this case comparing the battery temperature variation per unit time to a second threshold corresponding to variation of only the battery temperature and terminating the charging mode.

Abstract: A method of monitoring rapid charging of sealed nickel storage cells of the nickel-hydride type and of the nickel-cadmium type, said cells optionally being associated in a battery, wherein once said cells have been identified and a relationship for the heating of said cells as a function of charging time for a given charging mode has been determined and stored, the charging of said cells is stopped when the difference between the temperature of said cells and a reference temperature exceeds a predetermined value, the reference temperature being calculated on the basis of said heating relationship and as a function of the charging time that has already elapsed.