Startup Qnovo of California has developed technology that can significantly reduce the charging time of the smartphone. If charging a modern mobile phone for 15 minutes provides about 1.5 hours of battery life in talk mode, the use of technology Qnovo can increase this time up to 3 or even up to 6 hours.
The main advantage of the technology is its ability to use modern devices without making any changes to the process of manufacture of batteries, writes Cnews. According to the head Qnovo Nadeem Maloof, it works with any lithium-ion battery.
The essence of technology is to monitor the operating parameters of the battery during the charging process and speed control by varying the supply voltage on the battery terminals.The developers claim that the technology not only solves the problem of slow charging, but does not reduce the battery life.
To take advantage of the development Qnovo, should be placed in the smartphone operating system custom code, as well as to equip the gadget original miniature chip Qnovo. The function of the chip is to test the parameters of the battery and adjusting the parameters of voltage that occurs thousands of times per second. In addition, it allows you to bypass the lock parameters charging, which is installed chipsets Qualcomm, commonly used in modern gadgets. At the same technology can be used without installing the chip, but in this case the rate of charging will increase only twice.
As described in the Qnovo, technology efficiency drops significantly after reaching the battery charge level to 85%. However, from the point of view of developers, this disadvantage is not important, as the majority of smartphone owners are rarely fully recharges your gadgets.
Now the company is in talks with several manufacturers of smartphones using it to develop new models of mobile devices. Maloof believes that the first smartphone equipped with the necessary chip will be available in 2015.