Electricity: electrical systems and devices – Housing or mounting assemblies with diverse electrical... – For electronic systems and devices
Patent
1993-10-29
1994-08-09
Picard, Leo P.
Electricity: electrical systems and devices
Housing or mounting assemblies with diverse electrical...
For electronic systems and devices
429 97, 200 4322, 361610, H05K 716, H01M 210, H02B 1044
Patent
active
053372158
ABSTRACT:
A battery compartment for a device having a housing is provided. The battery compartment pivots around an axis that is generally parallel with a wall of housing. The battery compartment is generally an elongated wedge or sector shape with an elongated pivoting axis extending along the apex of the wedge. One planar side of the wedge becomes a portion of the wall of the housing as the battery compartment is pivoted about the elongated axis into a closed position. This planar side becomes a door into the housing that is opened or closed as the battery compartment is pivoted around its pivoting axis. As the battery compartment is pivoted around its pivoting axis, the battery compartment rotates out and away from the plane that previously encompassed the wall of the device so that access to the batteries may be had. The battery compartment encloses the batteries and segregates them from the other components in the housing. Furthermore, the battery compartment of the instant invention prevents foreign objects from being introduced into the interior of the housing when the door of the battery compartment is in either of its open or closed positions, or being moved therebetween. In one embodiment of the instant invention, switches, such as DIP switches, are attached to the battery compartment so that as the battery compartment is rotated around its pivoting axis, access may be had to the switches.
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Lane John A.
Sunderland Richard A.
Kinghorn Curtis D.
Phillips Michael W.
Picard Leo P.
Sherwood Medical Company
Smith Montgomery W.
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