CHARGE CONTROL APPARATUS AND CHARGE CONTROL METHOD

A charge control apparatus has a charger for charging a battery with rectified power obtained by rectifying AC power supplied from a power supply by full-wave rectification or half-wave rectification as charge power, a sensor for detecting a state of the battery, and controller for setting voltage lower than a limit voltage of the battery as an upper limit charge voltage chargeable to the battery. The controller manages the power chargeable to the battery on a basis of a detected value of the sensor and the upper limit charge voltage, controls the charge power on a basis of the chargeable power, sets the upper limit charge voltage to first upper limit charge voltage when the charge power is higher than a predetermined threshold value, and sets the upper limit charge voltage to second upper limit charge voltage when the charge power is lower than the threshold value.