Battery pack housing structure, and electronic apparatus

A battery pack housing structure, which is used for an electronic apparatus including a housing portion for housing a battery pack, comprising a battery cover configured to cover the housing portion which houses the battery pack,

• wherein the battery pack has a substantially rectangular flat-plate shape, and includes a connection terminal provided to a first side surface and battery-pack side-surface protruding portions provided to a second side surface and a third side surface adjacent to the first side surface,
• wherein the housing portion includes:
• a bottom surface corresponding to a lower surface of the battery pack;
• a housing-portion connection terminal provided to a first housing-portion side surface being a side surface corresponding to the first side surface;
• and
• housing-portion side-surface protruding portions which are engageable with the battery-pack side-surface protruding portions and which are provided to a second housing-portion side surface being a side surface corresponding to the second side surface and a third housing-portion side surface being a side surface corresponding to the third side surface, respectively,
• wherein the housing-portion side-surface protruding portions have inclination portions on upper portions thereof, the inclination portions being inclined downward in a direction toward a fourth housing-portion side surface opposed to the first housing-portion side surface, and the battery-pack side-surface protruding portions being brought into abutment against the inclination portions when the battery pack is housed in the housing portion, and
• wherein, before the battery pack is positioned at a mounting position in the electronic apparatus, when the battery pack is housed in the housing portion so as to be obliquely inclined with respect to the bottom surface of the housing portion in a state where the lower surface of the battery pack and the bottom surface of the housing portion are opposed to each other and the connection terminal and the housing-portion connection terminal are opposed to each other, and when the battery-pack side-surface protruding portions of the second side surface and the third side surface are brought into abutment against the inclination portions, the battery pack slips off along the inclination portions so that the battery pack is positioned at a pre-mounting position at which the connection terminal of the battery pack and the housing-portion connection terminal are connectable to each other.