US 12,546,827 B2Granted

Battery probe set

AssigneeVertiv Corporation

InventorsThomas W. Frymyer, Jr., Ryan J. Riker, Mark Carrillo, James A. Laurie

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Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a battery probe set configured to plug into a battery tester and impinge upon one or more terminals of a battery. The battery probe set includes first and second probe assemblies, each including a housing with gripping portions and conductive ports, probe stems of varying lengths that attach to the housing, and probe tips that couple to the probe stems. The housing, probe stem, and probe tips are electrically coupled via conductive paths. The first and second probe assemblies are electrically coupled via a transverse connector, permitting the location of probe plugs onto one of the probe assemblies that is configured to be pluggable into the battery tester. The probe tips are interchangeable and include a light source.

Claims3

Dependent claims

A battery test assembly comprising:

a battery tester;
and
a battery probe set communicatively coupled to the battery tester, comprising:
a first probe assembly, comprising:
a first housing configured with a gripping portion;
a first probe stem configured to mechanically couple to a first stem terminus of the first probe stem;
a first probe tip configured to mechanically couple to a first stem terminus of the first probe stem;
and
a first electronic circuitry configured to conduct electrical current;
and
a second probe assembly, comprising:
a second housing configured with a second gripping portion;
a second stem configured to mechanically couple to a first end of the second housing;
a second probe tip configured to mechanically couple to a second stem terminus of the second probe stem;
a first probe plug configured to mechanically couple to an output end of the second housing via a first plug cord;
and
a second electronic circuitry configured within the second housing, the second probe stem and the second probe tip configured to conduct current between the second probe tip and the first plug cord, wherein at least one of the first probe tip or the second probe tip is configured with a probe light.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/137,706Filed 21 Apr 2023 · continuation
Priority: 17 Dec 2021
Published: US 2023/0251316 A110 Aug 2023
Granted: 10 Feb 2026
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

G01R 31/3644
Arrangements for testing, measuring or monitoring the electrical condition of accumulators or electric batteries, e.g. capacity or state of…
G01R 1/06788
Measuring probes: hand-held or hand-manipulated probes, e.g. for oscilloscopes or for portable test instruments
G01R 1/07364
With individual probe elements, e.g. needles, cantilever beams or bump contacts, fixed in relation to each other, e.g. bed of nails fixture or…:…
H01R 11/18
End pieces or tapping pieces for wires, supported by the wire and for facilitating electrical connection to some other wire, terminal or…: end…

Family

Application17/554,687Parent of this continuation · filed 17 Dec 2021
US 2023/0251316 A1Pre-grant publication · published 10 Aug 2023
US 11,656,281 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2022/0196744 A1Published application
US 12,546,827 B2This patent

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