Battery jump cable system

• US 4,560,230 A
• Filed: 04/16/1984
• Issued: 12/24/1985
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/1984
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Douglas R. Inglis
• Original Assignee: Douglas R. Inglis
• Inventors: Inglis, Douglas R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Weidenfeld, Gil
• Assistant Examiner(s): Austin, Paula A.
• Application Number:
  US06/600,576
• Time in Patent Office: 617 Days
• Field of Search: 339/224, 339/225, 339/231-234, 339/263 B
• US Class Current: 439/890
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/55 on the same side of the cell
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/553 Terminals adapted for prismatic, pouch or rectangular cells
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/562 characterised by the material
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/567 by fixing means, e.g. screws, rivets or bolts
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 11/289 characterised by the shape or the structure of the battery post
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

A rechargeable battery cable connection system to facilitate the attachment of battery jumper cables or battery charging clamps to a rechargeable battery. The system utilizes a protuberance associated adjacent a battery terminal, the protuberance either constituting an extension defined upon the battery terminal, or defined upon the battery terminal clamp. The protuberance includes a recess receiving the jaws of the cable clamp.

Claims

1. A battery jump cable connection system for rechargeable batteries comprising, in combination, a frusto-conical battery terminal of electrically conductive material having an axis, an inner maximum diameter region and an outer minimum diameter end, a circular extension defined on said outer end concentric to said axis and of a diameter no greater than the diameter of said outer end, said extension being homogeneously formed of the material of said terminal, and a circular recess defined in said extension concentric to said terminal axis and of such radial depth to receive and retain the jaws of a battery jump cable clamp therein.

2. A battery jump cable connection system for rechargeable batteries wherein the batteries include frustoconical terminals comprising, in combination, a battery terminal clamp having an elongated body of electrically conductive material defining a length, a frusto-conical socket defined in said body transverse to said length for receiving a battery terminal, means defined on said body for circumferentially constricting said socket, a battery cable affixed to said body in electrical conducting relationship therewith, an elongated electrical conducting protuberance post extending from said body in electrical conducting relationship therewith having an axis transversely disposed to said body length, said post being homogeneously formed of the material of said clamp body and having a free outer end region of circular configuration, and a circular recess concentrically defined in said post outer end region of such depth to receive and retain the jaws of a battery jump cable clamp therein.