Device for energy supply

• US 20080292947A1
• Filed: 11/13/2007
• Published: 11/27/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Micronel AG
• Original Assignee: Micronel AG
• Inventors: Scherrer, Ernst
• Application Number:
  US11/983,837
• Publication Number:
  US 20080292947A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 429/97
• 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 50/51 Connection only in series
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

The apparatus has a carrier for accommodating a plurality of series-connected energy cells, which each have a positive terminal and a negative terminal. An electrical contact is provided in the carrier for each terminal, which electrical contacts, when the energy cell is inserted, connect said energy cell to connection points for drawing energy. Each positive terminal and in each case the associated negative terminal are electrically connected to one another via a switch. These switches are designed such that they are in each case interrupted when an energy cell is inserted. The invention then also makes possible current consumption if fewer than the maximum possible number of energy cells are available.

Claims

1. :

An energy supply apparatus having a carrier for accommodating a plurality of series-connected energy cells, which each have a positive terminal and a negative terminal, an electrical contact being provided in the carrier for each terminal, which electrical contacts when the energy cell has been inserted, connect said energy cell to connection points for drawing energy, wherein each positive terminal and in each case the associated negative terminal are electrically connected to one another via a switch, and this switch is designed such that it is interrupted when an energy cell is inserted.

2. :

The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the switch is automatically interrupted when an energy cell is inserted.

3. :

The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the switch in each case has a spring-elastic part, which is moved, when an energy cell is inserted, into a position in which the switching contact of the switch is interrupted.

4. :

The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the carrier is in the form of a revolver magazine.