Battery charger device

• US 6,124,699 A
• Filed: 08/30/1999
• Issued: 09/26/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Ichinose, Kazutoshi, Suzuki, Naomasa, Iida, Shinobu
• Primary Examiner(s): Tso, Edward H.
• Application Number:
  US09/386,497
• Time in Patent Office: 393 Days
• Field of Search: 320/110, 320/112, 320/113, 320/116, 320/FOR 102, 320/FOR 105, 320/FOR 114, 429/96, 429/99, 429/100, 429/149, 307/150, D13/103, D13/104
• US Class Current: 320/110
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2310/22 The load being a portable electronic device
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0013 acting upon several batteries simultaneously or sequentially H02J7/1423 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0044 specially adapted for holding portable devices containing batteries H02J7/0045 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0045 concerning the insertion or the connection of the batteries

Abstract

In a battery charger device 1 for a portable telephone, a front pocket 11 suitable for a portable telephone 4 having a large battery pack 3, and a rear pocket 12 suitable for a large battery pack 3 are disposed. Rotatable levers 5 which are urged by spiral springs 6 are disposed in pocket back faces 11a. A small battery pack 2 and a portable telephone 4 having a small battery pack 2 are held by the levers 5. Since the levers 5 are rotated so as to be housed in the battery charger, the large battery pack 3 and the portable telephone 4 having the large battery pack 3 are held by the pocket back faces 11a. The rotatable levers allow a small battery pack and a portable telephone having a small battery pack, and a large battery pack and a portable telephone having a large battery pack to be selectively held in a fixed state. Therefore, either of a small battery pack and a large battery pack can be stably held.

Claims

1. A battery charger device comprising:

a pocket for accommodating and fixedly holding a portable telephone having a large battery pack; and

a lever which is disposed in a back face of said pocket, which fixedly holds a portable telephone having a small battery pack, in said pocket, and which, when a portable telephone having a large battery pack is to be accommodated, is rotated to be housed in said back face of said pocket.

2. A battery charger device according to claim 1, wherein block is disposed in lower portion of said back face of said pocket, said block having a block upper face which guides a small battery pack to a proper holding position and a block front face which abuts against a common back face of a large battery pack or a small battery pack, and spiral spring is disposed inside said lever, said spiral spring having an urging force of a degree which is sufficient for causing lever not to rest at an improper position.

3. A battery charger device according to claim 1, wherein a jaw portion is disposed on a front face of said pocket, and a height of said front face of said pocket corresponds to a position of said lever.

4. A battery charger device according to claim 3, wherein a height of said jaw portion of said front face of said pocket corresponds to the position of said lever, a position of said block, a thickness of said portable telephone, and sizes of said large and small battery packs.

5. A battery charger device comprising:

a front pocket for accommodating and fixedly holding a portable telephone having a large battery pack;

a rear pocket for accommodating and fixedly holding a large battery pack;

a front-pocket lever which is disposed in a back face of said front pocket, which fixedly holds a portable telephone having a small battery pack, in said front pocket, and which, when a portable telephone having a large battery pack is to be accommodated, is rotated to be housed in said back face of said front pocket; and

a rear-pocket lever which is disposed in a back face of said rear pocket, which fixedly holds a small battery pack in said rear pocket, and which, when a large battery pack is to be accommodated in said rear pocket, is rotated to be housed in said back face of said rear pocket.

6. A battery charger device according to claim 5, wherein blocks are respectively disposed in lower portions of said back faces of said front and rear pockets, said blocks having a block upper face which guides a small battery pack to a proper holding position and a block front face which abuts against a common back face of a large battery pack or a small battery pack, and spiral springs are respectively disposed inside said front- and rear-pocket levers, said spiral springs having an urging force of a degree which is sufficient for causing respective one of said front- and rear-pocket levers not to rest at an improper position.

7. A battery charger device according to claim 5, wherein a jaw portion is disposed on a front face of said front pocket, and a height of said front face of said front pocket corresponds to a position of said front-pocket lever.

8. A battery charger device according to claim 7, wherein a height of said jaw portion of said front face of said front pocket corresponds to the position of said front-pocket lever, a position of said block, a thickness of said portable telephone, and sizes of said large and small battery packs.

9. A battery charger device according to claim 5, wherein a tapered face is disposed in a front face of said rear pocket.

10. A battery charger device according to claim 5, wherein rotation shafts of said front- and rear-pocket levers are disposed below a perpendicular from a contact point of corresponding one of said pocket levers and respective one of said battery packs to said back face of corresponding one of said pockets.