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US 10,376,766 B2Granted
Scoreboard and system
AssigneeBlack & Decker Inc.
InventorsCurtis Stanfield, Steven Phillips, Oleksiy Sergyeyenko, Chelsea Wills, Shalin Chikhalkar, Timothy W. French
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Abstract
A scoreboard system, the system including a scoreboard. The scoreboard is configured to display at least one score. A battery pack is removably coupled to the scoreboard and selectively powers the scoreboard. The battery pack includes a housing and at least one battery cell housed in the housing.
Claims19
A scoreboard system, the system comprising:
- a scoreboard, the scoreboard configured to display display information including at least one score, the scoreboard including a first wireless receiver and a first wireless transmitter;
- a battery pack which is removably coupled to the scoreboard and selectively powers the scoreboard;
- wherein the battery pack comprises a housing and at least one battery cell housed in the housing;
- further comprising a host computing device separate from the scoreboard, the host computing device including a second wireless transmitter and a second wireless receiver, the host computing device being wirelessly paired with the scoreboard so that the host computing device receives data related to the display information;
- and
- at least one client computing device, the client computing device including a third wireless receiver;
- wherein the host computing device is configured to wirelessly transmit data related to the display information to a cloud, whereby the display information displayed on the scoreboard can be retrieved by users of the at least one client computing device;
- wherein the scoreboard further comprises a battery pack receptacle, the battery pack receptacle including a pair of receptacle rails and a pair of receptacle grooves;
- wherein the scoreboard also further comprises a plurality of physical controls configured to operate the scoreboard;
- wherein the battery pack further comprises a pair of rails which engage the receptacle grooves;
- wherein the battery pack receptacle further comprises a plurality of electrical connectors;
- wherein the scoreboard further includes a front face including a plurality of numerical LED displays configured to display digits from zero through nine;
- and
- wherein the battery pack is configured to selectively couple to and provide power to a drill.
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A scoreboard system, the system comprising:
- a scoreboard, the scoreboard configured to display display information including at least one score and a clock, the scoreboard including a first wireless receiver and a first wireless transmitter;
- a host computing device separate from the scoreboard, the computing device including a second wireless transmitter and a second wireless receiver and operable to communicate with the scoreboard through the first wireless receiver and first wireless transmitter so that the computing device receives data related to the display information;
- wherein the scoreboard includes user controls on the scoreboard, the user controls configured to control display of the at least one score and the clock;
- and
- at least one client computing device, the client computing device including a third wireless receiver;
- wherein the host computing device is configured to wirelessly transmit data related to the display information to a cloud, whereby the display information displayed on the scoreboard can be retrieved by users of the at least one client computing device;
- wherein the scoreboard further comprises a battery pack receptacle, the battery pack receptacle including a pair of receptacle rails and a pair of receptacle grooves;
- wherein the scoreboard also further comprises a plurality of physical controls configured to operate the scoreboard;
- wherein the battery pack further comprises a pair of rails which engage the receptacle grooves;
- wherein the battery pack receptacle further comprises a plurality of electrical connectors;
- wherein the scoreboard further includes a front face including a plurality of numerical LED displays configured to display digits from zero through nine;
- and
- wherein the battery pack is configured to selectively couple to and provide power to a drill.
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A scoreboard system, the system comprising:
- a scoreboard, the scoreboard configured to display display information including at least one score and a clock, the scoreboard including a first wireless receiver and a first wireless transmitter;
- a battery pack, the battery pack comprising a housing, a plurality of battery cells housed in the housing and a circuit board housed in the housing;
- and
- wherein the battery pack is a rechargeable battery pack and is removably coupleable to the scoreboard to power the scoreboard and is removably coupleable to a power tool to power the power tool;
- further comprising a host computing device separate from the scoreboard, the host computing device including a second wireless transmitter and a second wireless receiver, the host computing device being wirelessly paired with the scoreboard so that the host computing device receives data related to the display information;
- and
- at least one client computing device, the client computing device including a third wireless receiver;
- wherein the host computing device is configured to wirelessly transmit data related to the display information to a cloud, whereby the display information displayed on the scoreboard can be retrieved by users of the at least one client computing device;
- wherein the scoreboard further comprises a battery pack receptacle, the battery pack receptacle including a pair of receptacle rails and a pair of receptacle grooves;
- wherein the scoreboard also further comprises a plurality of physical controls configured to operate the scoreboard;
- wherein the battery pack further comprises a pair of rails which engage the receptacle grooves;
- wherein the battery pack receptacle further comprises a plurality of electrical connectors;
- and
- wherein the scoreboard further includes a front face including a plurality of numerical LED displays configured to display digits from zero through nine.
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A scoreboard system, the system comprising:
- a scoreboard, the scoreboard including:
- a front face with a plurality of LED displays, each of the plurality of LED displays configured to display digits from zero through nine;
- a plurality of physical controls configured to operate the scoreboard;
- and
- a battery pack receptacle, the battery pack receptacle including a pair of receiving grooves and a plurality of receptacle electrical connectors;
- a battery pack which is removably coupled to the scoreboard and selectively powers the scoreboard, the battery pack including:
- a housing;
- at least one battery cell housed in the housing;
- a pair of rails, the rails configured to be engaged with the pair of receiving grooves of the battery pack receptacle;
- a plurality of battery pack electrical connectors which engage the receptacle electrical connectors;
- and
- a drill, the drill configured to receive and be powered by the battery pack.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.