BATTERY PACK, POWER TOOL, AND CHARGER WITH INDUCTIVE COUPLING

• US 20080061734A1
• Filed: 09/10/2007
• Published: 03/13/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Roehm, Heiko, Dengler, Klaus
• Application Number:
  US11/852,404
• Publication Number:
  US 20080061734A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 320/108
• CPC Class Codes: B25F 5/02 Construction of casings, bodies or handles B25F5/006, B25F5/008 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/46 Accumulators structurally combined with charging apparatus circuits for charging H02J7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/202 Casings or frames around the primary casing of a single cell or a single battery
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/247 specially adapted for portable devices, e.g. mobile phones, computers, hand tools or pacemakers
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/296 characterised by terminals of battery packs terminals of batteries H01M50/543
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/10 using inductive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0044 specially adapted for holding portable devices containing batteries H02J7/0045 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

A battery pack that makes a power tool easier to handle has a first element for a detachable mechanical and electrical coupling to a power tool and a second element by way of which an inductive coupling with a charger can be made.

Claims

1. A battery pack, comprising first means configured for detachable mechanical and electrical coupling to a power tool;

and second means configured for an inductive coupling with a charger.

2. A battery pack as defined in claim 1, wherein said second means have a part with at least one secondary winding of a transformer of an iron core located in the battery pack so that on being inserted into the charger, it couples inductively with a complementary part of the iron core that is located in the charger and has at least one primary winding.

3. A battery pack as defined in claim 1, wherein said second means configured for an inductive coupling with the charger are located in the battery pack on a side diametrically opposite to said first means configured for coupling to the power tool.

4. A battery pack as defined in claim 1, further comprising a base, said second means configured for an inductive coupling with the charger being located in a vicinity of said base.

5. A power tool, comprising a battery pack having first means configured for detachable mechanical and electrical coupling to a power tool, and second means configured for an inductive coupling with a charger.

6. A power tool as defined in claim 5, wherein said second means configured for an inductive coupling with the charger is configured so that they provide the inductive coupling with the charger without disconnecting the battery pack form the power tool.

7. A power tool as defined in claim 5, further comprising a handle having a lower end, said means configured for detachable mechanical and electrical coupling of the battery pack to the power tool being provided on said lower end of said handle.

8. A charger inductively coupleable to a battery pack that is mechanically and electrically coupleable to first means of a power tool, said charger being configured for an inductive coupling with second means of the battery pack.

9. A charger as defined in claim 8, further comprising one part with at least one primary winding of a transformer of an iron core that upon insertion of the battery pack couples inductively with a complementary part located in the battery pack of the iron core, which complementary part has at least one secondary winding, and said complementary part and said secondary winding form said second means.