Electricity: battery or capacitor charging or discharging – Cell or battery charger structure
Patent
1997-10-28
2000-01-11
Wong, Peter S.
Electricity: battery or capacitor charging or discharging
Cell or battery charger structure
320106, 320114, 429 98, 429 99, H02J 700, H01M 210
Patent
active
060140097
ABSTRACT:
An electronic device supplied power from either a single rechargeable battery or four non-rechargeable batteries. The single rechargeable battery is preferably a 4.8 volt, DURACELL DR-121 rechargeable battery which includes a first end having positive and negative terminal contacts, a pair of recharging contacts and a key. Each of the four non-rechargeable batteries are preferably AA size, lithium batteries and are configured so that a first pair of batteries in series are in parallel with a second pair of batteries in series. The electronic device comprises a housing shaped to include a battery cavity which can accept either type of battery source. The battery cavity comprises a bottom wall, a front end wall, a back end wall and a pair of sidewalls. One of the sidewalls includes a slot which is sized and shaped to accept the key of the rechargeable battery, the slot enabling the rechargeable battery to be inserted in the battery cavity only in its proper orientation relative to the battery cavity. The electronic device also includes an electronic circuit within the housing for enabling the electronic device to perform a particular operation, the electronic circuit receiving power from the battery source by a battery circuit. The electronic device further comprises a pair of spring contacts on the front end wall, a pair of looped wire contacts mounted on the back end wall, a plurality of a plurality of flexible fingers formed in the sidewalls and plurality of flexible tabs formed on the bottom wall which all serve to maintain either battery source in an operative electrical contact position within the battery cavity.
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Whitcher Paul
Wierzbicki Robert P.
Data General Corporation
Toatley , Jr. Gregory J.
Wong Peter S.
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