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US 10,256,644 B2Granted
Method and apparatus for supplying power
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsTaesin Ha, Youngbo Shim, Hyun Do Choi, Kyung-Rock Kim, Jeonghun Kim
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for supplying a power to a hardware module when the hardware module is mounted are provided. The method and apparatus may supply a power to a hardware module when both a mounting signal indicating that the hardware module is mounted in a module circuit and a trigger signal input by a user are received.
Claims16
A method of supplying a power to at least one hardware device, the method comprising:
- generating a mounting signal, if the at least one hardware device is mounted in a module circuit;
- generating a trigger signal in response to a power-on signal input by a user;
- and
- connecting a battery to each of the at least one hardware device, if both the mounting signal and the trigger signal are detected.
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An apparatus configured to supply a power to at least one hardware device, the apparatus comprising:
- a module circuit including at least one connector each corresponding to a respective one of the at least one hardware device;
- a comparison circuit configured to output a mounting signal, if a voltage of the module circuit is greater than or equal to a set voltage;
- a trigger circuit configured to detect a trigger signal in response to a power-on signal input by a user;
- an operation signal generation circuit configured to generate an operation signal based on the mounting signal and the trigger signal;
- and
- a power control circuit configured to connect a battery to each of the at least one hardware device based on the operation signal.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.