Battery pack and electronic device

• US 20050184702A1
• Filed: 02/14/2005
• Published: 08/25/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Photo Imaging Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Konica Minolta Photo Imaging Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Inventors: Suzuki, Akihiro, Fujita, Takashi, Katagiri, Yoshito
• Application Number:
  US11/057,797
• Publication Number:
  US 20050184702A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 320/107
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0044 specially adapted for holding portable devices containing batteries H02J7/0045 takes precedence

Abstract

A battery pack which is loaded into a battery pack accommodating chamber of an electronic device, including: an electrical power generating section to supply electrical power to the electronic device; and a battery housing section, housing the electrical power generating section, and having a first concave section on a surface of the battery housing section formed along a loading direction of the battery pack to couple with an engaging section of the battery pack accommodating chamber by an elastic force generated by the engaging section; wherein when the battery pack is placed in a loaded position in the battery pack accommodating chamber, the first concave section is not coupled with the engaging section, and when the battery pack is moved toward an unloading direction from the loaded position, the first concave section is coupled with the engaging section by the elastic force.

Claims

1. A battery pack which is loaded into a battery pack accommodating chamber of an electronic device, comprising:

an electrical power generating section to supply electrical power to the electronic device; and

a battery housing section, housing the electrical power generating section, and having a first concave section on a surface of the battery housing section formed along a loading direction of the battery pack to couple with an engaging section of the battery pack accommodating chamber by an elastic force generated by the engaging section;

wherein when the battery pack is placed in a loaded position in the battery pack accommodating chamber, the first concave section is not coupled with the engaging section, and when the battery pack is moved toward an unloading direction from the loaded position, the first concave section is coupled with the engaging section by the elastic force.

2. The battery pack in claim 1, wherein the elastic force is greater than a force by which the first concave section does not separate from the engaging section even when the weight of the battery pack is added to the battery pack in the unloading direction.

3. The battery pack in claim 1, wherein the battery housing section further has a second concave section to couple with a locking section of the battery pack accommodating chamber of the electronic device.

4. The battery pack in claim 1, wherein the electrical power generating section includes a plurality of stacked layers rolled around a rolling axis oriented to the loading direction of the battery pack.

5. An electronic device, comprising

a battery pack accommodating chamber for the battery pack of claim 1, including an engaging section to couple with the first concave section of the battery pack.

6. The electronic device in claim 5, wherein when the battery pack is loaded and covered by a lid of the electronic device, the engaging section pushes the battery housing section with pressure greater than when the lid is opened.

7. The electronic device in claim 5, further comprising an elastic power generating section in the battery pack accommodating chamber.

8. The electronic device in claim 5, further comprising

a locking section to lock the second concave section of the battery pack.