Conductive plate and an electronic device having the same

• US 9,847,521 B2
• Filed: 06/30/2015
• Issued: 12/19/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/25/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bionime Corporation
• Original Assignee: Bionime Corporation
• Inventors: Huang, Chun-Mu, Chen, Chieh-Hsing, Huang, Hsi-Wen
• Primary Examiner(s): Jelsma, Jonathan
• Application Number:
  US14/755,503
• Publication Number:
  US 20150303432A1
• Time in Patent Office: 903 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/0427 Button cells
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/0436 Small-sized flat cells or batteries for portable equipment
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 2220/30 Batteries in portable systems, e.g. mobile phone, laptop
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/216 adapted for button or coin cells
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/2435 with opposite contact points, e.g. C beam
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 2201/12 for medicine and surgery
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 70/50 Manufacturing or production processes characterised by the final manufactured product

Abstract

An electronic device includes a casing, first and second batteries and a conductive plate. The first and second batteries are disposed in a battery slot of the casing. The conductive plate is clamped between the first and second batteries, and has a mounting portion that is mounted pivotally into a mounting groove of the casing such that the conductive plate is pivotable between a clamped position where a conductive body of the conductive plate is clamped between the first and second batteries, and an unclamped position where the conductive body is spaced apart from the first and second batteries for removal and installment of one of the first and second batteries.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

a casing formed with a battery slot, and having a mounting groove that is formed in an inner surrounding surface of said casing defining said battery slot;

positive and negative power output terminals projecting into said battery slot;

first and second batteries removably disposed in said battery slot, and each having a first electrode end and a second electrode end; and

a conductive plate clamped removably between said first and second batteries, and having a conductive body and a mounting portion that extends from said conductive body;

wherein, said first battery, said conductive plate and said second battery are arranged along an extending direction of said battery slot, said first electrode end of said first battery being connected electrically to said first electrode end of said second battery via said conductive plate, said second electrode ends of said first and second batteries being connected electrically and respectively to said positive and negative power output terminals, said conductive body of said conductive plate having at least one contact for contact with one of said first electrode ends of said first and second batteries, said mounting portion of said conductive plate being mounted pivotally into said mounting groove of said casing such that said conductive plate is pivotable relative to said casing between a clamped position where said conductive body is clamped between said first and second batteries, and an unclamped position where one of said first and second batteries is removed from said battery slot and where said conductive body is spaced apart from the other one of said first and second batteries for removal and installment of the other one of said first and second batteries.

2. The electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said conductive body of said conductive plate further has

a first surface that faces said first battery,

a second surface that is opposite to said first surface and that faces said second battery, and

a first contact that is disposed on said first surface and that is connected electrically to said first electrode end of said first battery, said first contact being configured as a bulge that protrudes toward the first battery from said first surface.

3. The electronic device as claimed in claim 2, wherein said conductive body of said conductive plate further has

a first through groove that extends through said first and second surfaces, and

a resilient first tongue that has a fixed end connected fixedly to an edge surrounding said first through groove, that has a free end, and that defines a part of said first surface to dispose said first contact.

4. The electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said conductive body of said conductive plate further has

a first through groove,

at least one resilient first tongue that is disposed in said first through groove and that has a fixed end connected fixedly to an edge surrounding said first through groove, and

a resilient second tongue that is disposed in said first through groove, that is spaced apart from said first tongue, and that has a fixed end connected fixedly to said edge surrounding said first through groove.