Flexible battery connector

• US 9,118,148 B2
• Filed: 12/09/2009
• Issued: 08/25/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/09/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dov Pikielny
• Original Assignee: Dov Pikielny
• Inventors: Pikielny, Dov
• Primary Examiner(s): Husar, Stephen F
• Assistant Examiner(s): ALLEN, DANIELLE NICOLE
• Application Number:
  US12/633,866
• Publication Number:
  US 20110136349A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,085 Days
• Field of Search: 362196-208, 362/194, 362/195, 362/157, 439/6, 439 8- 11, 439/13, 439/52, 439/53, 439/500, 439/504
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6315 allowing relative movement between coupling parts, e.g. floating connection for coupling devices specially adapted for printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures, H01R12/91 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 35/04 Turnable line connectors with limited rotation angle with frictional contact members

Abstract

A battery connector including an electrical connector including a plurality of terminals, each mechanically and electrically connectable with a battery, the terminals being in electrical communication with each other and mechanically connected to each other with a joint member that permits flexing the batteries with respect to one another.

Claims

1. A battery connector comprising:

a pair of batteries, each having a negative pole and a positive pole; and

an electrical connector comprising a plurality of terminals, each mechanically and electrically connectable with said batteries, said terminals being in electrical communication with each other and mechanically connected to each other with a joint member that permits flexing said batteries with respect to one another, wherein said joint member comprises a bellows located between said terminals, and wherein said bellows and said terminals are located between the negative pole of one of said batteries and the positive pole of the other of said batteries so that said batteries are flexible with respect to one another.

2. The battery connector according to claim 1, wherein at least one of said terminals comprises a screw-thread connection for threaded connection with a battery housing that has a complimentary screw-thread connection, said battery housing being adapted for housing therein a battery.

3. The battery connector according to claim 1, wherein at least one of said terminals comprises a snap-on connection for securing to a battery terminal.

4. The battery connector according to claim 1, wherein at least one of said terminals comprises a screw-thread connection for threaded connection with an electrical component that has a complimentary screw-thread connection.

5. The battery connector according to claim 1, wherein said joint member comprises a ball-and-socket connection.

6. The battery connector according to claim 1, wherein said joint member comprises a rotary joint member adapted for rotation about a rotation axis, said rotary joint member being arranged for translational movement in a channel.

7. The battery connector according to claim 1, wherein said joint member comprises a male joint electrical terminal of a first battery which mates and articulates with a corresponding female joint electrical terminal of a second battery.

8. The battery connector according to claim 7, wherein said male joint electrical terminal comprises a convex shaped terminal and said female joint electrical terminal comprises a concave shaped terminal.

9. A battery connector comprising:

a pair of batteries, each having a negative pole and a positive pole;

an electrical connector comprising a plurality of terminals, each mechanically and electrically connectable with said batteries, said terminals being in electrical communication with each other and mechanically connected to each other with a joint member that permits flexing said batteries with respect to one another, and further comprising a flashlight component connected to one of said batteries, and wherein said joint member and said terminals are located between the negative pole of one of said batteries and the positive pole of the other of said batteries so that said batteries are flexible with respect to one another.

10. The battery connector according to claim 9, wherein said flashlight component comprises a flashlight cap with a light.

11. The battery connector according to claim 10, further comprising a switch in selective electrical communication with at least one of said batteries and said light.

12. The battery connector according to claim 10, further comprising an end cap mechanically and electrically connected to one of said batteries with a joint member that permits flexing that battery with respect to the end cap, said end cap being in electrical connection with the flashlight cap through said switch.