Here is a tried and tested sample circuit of a Li-Ion battery charger that can be used to charge any 3.7V Li-Ion battery using a 5VDC (USB, Solar Panel…) power supply. At the heart of the circuit is ...

Milpitas, Calif. The AnyAdapter ISL6292 lithium-ion/polymer battery charger IC accepts a wide range of voltage sources including voltage and current-limited wall plug modules and USB bus power. The ...

The SC802 chargers automatically detect the voltage levels in a battery and will initiate either a precharge current for deeply discharged batteries with less than 2.8 V of power, or fast-charge ...

Linear Technology has introduced the LT3651-4.2, a 4A monolithic synchronous buck battery charger for 1-cell Li-Ion/Polymer batteries. The LT3651-4.2 accepts inputs up to 32V with a 40V absolute ...

Linear Technology has introduced the LTC4095, a tiny, fully integrated, standalone linear battery charger for charging single-cell Li-Ion/Polymer batteries at up to 950mA without overheating the ...

Advanced Analogic Technologies Inc. (AnalogicTech™) announced the AAT3672, a highly integrated, single-cell Lithium-ion (Li-on)/polymer battery charger and system management IC.

Lithium-polymer battery technology is newer than lithium-ion. It didn’t appear on the scene until the 1970s and has only made its way into smartphones much more recently.