Battery-type power supply device and battery-driven load device

A battery-type power supply device that is mountable in a battery box of an external load device, comprising:

• a housing having a shape and dimensions which conform to battery standards;
• a battery housing section that houses a built-in battery inside the housing, the battery housing section having an inner positive terminal and an inner negative terminal which make contact with front and rear terminals of the housed built-in battery;
• an outer positive terminal that is provided at a front end face of the housing and connected to the inner positive terminal;
• an outer negative terminal that is provided at a rear end face of the housing and connected to the inner negative terminal;
• an output transistor that is interposed at least either between the inner negative terminal and the outer negative terminal or between the inner positive terminal and the outer positive terminal;
• an antenna that is housed within the housing;
• a radio communication section that performs radio communication with an external information processing device through the antenna;
• an opening/closing control section that causes the output transistor to open and close in accordance with a power supply on/off instruction that is received by the radio communication section from the external information processing device;
• a transmission section that controls opening and closing of the output transistor to transmit data received by the radio communication section from the external information processing device or other data to the external load device through the outer positive terminal and the outer negative terminal;
• and
• a connection switching section that switches between connections of the opening/closing control section and the transmission section to the output transistor.

A battery-driven load device, comprising:

• a battery box that houses a battery-type power supply device having a radio communication function;
• a load section driven by the housed battery-type power supply device as a power supply;
• a reception section that receives reception data from the battery-type power supply device through a positive terminal and a negative terminal of the battery box;
• a transmission section that transmits transmission data to the battery-type power supply device through the positive terminal and the negative terminal;
• and
• a control section that controls the reception section and the transmission section,
• wherein a branch line that branches off from a power supply line connected to the positive terminal is connected to the reception section, a pair of pull-down resistors being provided in parallel in the branch line, one of the pull-down resistors being connected to a ground through a switching element, the switching element being opened and closed so that a pull-down resistor value can be varied by control of the control section, and
• wherein the negative terminal is connected through a transistor to another branch line that branches off from the power supply line, and the transistor is opened and closed in accordance with the transmission data from the transmission section.