Battery device and electronic apparatus

• US 8,563,167 B2
• Filed: 09/30/2010
• Issued: 10/22/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/26/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Takeshita, Toshio, Miyajima, Yoichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Gilliam, Barbara
• Assistant Examiner(s): MARTIN, ANGELA J
• Application Number:
  US12/894,566
• Publication Number:
  US 20110020698A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,118 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 429/179
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/42 Methods or arrangements for servicing or maintenance of secondary cells or secondary half-cells H01M10/60 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 2220/30 Batteries in portable systems, e.g. mobile phone, laptop
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/213 adapted for cells having curved cross-section, e.g. round or elliptic H01M50/209, H01M50/216 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/559 Terminals adapted for cells having curved cross-section, e.g. round, elliptic or button cells H01M50/553 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 6/42 Grouping of primary cells into batteries H01M6/40 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

A battery apparatus including a case, a battery cell, a battery-side terminal, and an engaging piece. The case has a width, a thickness, and a length. The battery cell is housed in an inside of the case. The battery-side terminal is disposed on a side surface at one end of the case in a length direction and electrically connected to the battery cell. The engaging piece is disposed at the one end of the case at which the battery-side terminal is positioned such that the engaging piece extends in a length direction a same distance as the case at the one end portion. The engaging piece is at an edge of the case in a width direction.

Claims

1. A battery comprising:

a case having a width, a thickness, and a length;

a battery cell housed in an inside of the case;

a battery-side terminal disposed on a side surface at one end of the case in a length direction and electrically connected to the battery cell;

an engaging piece disposed at the one end of the case at which the battery-side terminal is positioned such that the engaging piece extends from an upper portion of the one end of the case in a length direction a same distance away from the one end of the case as a lower portion of the case at the one end extends in the length direction such that an edge of the engaging piece at the one end of the case in the length direction is even with an edge of the lower portion of the case in the length direction at the one end of the case, the engaging piece also located at an edge of the case in a width direction; and

a second engaging piece disposed at the one end of the case at which the battery-side terminal is positioned such that the second engaging piece extends from the upper portion of the one end of the case in the length direction the same distance away from the one end of the case as a lower portion of the case at the one end extends in the length direction such that an edge of the second engaging piece in the length direction at the one end of the case is even with the edge of the case in the length direction at the one end of the case, the second engaging piece located at an edge of the case in the width direction on an opposite side of the case in the width direction from the engaging piece.

2. The battery as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a convex portion located between and connected to the case and the engaging piece, the convex portion extending in the width direction a distance less than a distance the engaging piece extends in the width direction.

3. The battery as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a second convex portion located between and connected to the case and the second engaging piece, the second convex portion extending in the width direction a distance less than a distance the second engaging piece extends in the width direction.

5. The battery as claimed in claim 1, wherein a recess portion is formed between the engaging piece and the battery-side terminal, the recess portion being open at the end of the case in the length direction.

6. The battery as claimed in claim 1, wherein the battery-side terminal is located between the first engaging piece and the second engaging piece.

4. A battery comprising:

a case having a width, a thickness, and a length;

a battery cell housed in an inside of the case;

a battery-side terminal disposed on a side surface at one end of the case in a length direction and electrically connected to the battery cell;

an engaging piece disposed at the one end of the case at which the battery-side terminal is positioned such that the engaging piece extends from an upper portion of the one end of the case in a length direction a same distance away from the one end of the case as a lower portion of the case at the one end extends in the length direction such that an edge of the engaging piece at the one end of the case in the length direction is even with an edge of the lower portion of the case in the length direction at the one end of the case, the engaging piece also located at an edge of the case in a width direction; and

a convex terminal side portion projecting in the length direction from the one end surface of the case and extending in the width direction along the one end surface of the case, the convex terminal side portion disposed at a distance in the thickness direction from the battery-side terminal, the convex terminal side portion being located on the one end of the case, and the convex terminal side portion projecting in the length direction away from an outermost end surface of the case a distance greater than a distance any other portion of the battery extends in the length direction.