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US 5,670,267 AGranted
Battery storage pack adapter for a portable computer
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorCheon-Yeol Lee
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Abstract
An auxiliary battery storage pack is inserted in the main battery storage pack for a portable computer in place of the specially designed battery so that the user can install ordinary batteries therein. The auxiliary pack adapts the internal size of the main battery storage pack so that it can receive batteries of various size, and connects the contact springs of the computer, through the main battery pack, with corresponding electrodes of the ordinary batteries.
Claims20
A battery storage pack for a battery-operated portable computer having a battery compartment including resilient contacts, said battery storage pack comprising:
- a main battery storage pack disposed in said battery compartment which removably stores a first battery in an interior thereof, said main battery storage pack having a plurality of grooves through which each of said resilient contacts connect with respective terminals of said first battery and a battery door by which a user accesses said interior of said main battery storage pack;
- an auxiliary battery unit capable of being removably stored in said interior of said main battery storage pack in place of said first battery, said auxiliary battery unit including:
- at least one second battery having a smaller size than said first battery, and
- an adapter which compensates for said smaller size of said second batteries in said interior of said main battery storage pack, and by which each of said resilient contacts operably connect with corresponding terminals of said second batteries;
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- at least one catch disposed on an exterior portion of said main battery storage pack which prevents said main battery storage pack from being completely removed from said compartment of said portable computer.
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A battery pack for a battery operated portable computer, comprising:
- a drawer adapted to be received in a compartment of said portable computer, said drawer having walls, including a front, a rear and two opposite sides, a plurality of battery terminal contact access openings being formed in at least one of said walls, said sides collectively defining a space, bordered by said walls, which is sized and shaped to receive a first battery and to dispose respective terminals of said first battery at each of said access openings;
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- an adapter removably disposable in said space which compensates for the size and shape of said space for receiving at least one second battery for powering said computer in place of said first battery, and includes contact portions which operably dispose respective terminals of said second batteries at each of said access openings.
A battery storage pack for a battery-operated portable computer having a battery compartment including resilient contacts, said battery storage pack comprising:
- a main battery storage pack disposed in said battery compartment which removably stores a first battery in an interior thereof, said main battery storage pack having a plurality of grooves through which each of said resilient contacts connect with respective terminals of said first battery and a battery door by which a user accesses said interior of said main battery storage pack;
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- an auxiliary battery unit capable of being removably stored in said interior of said main battery storage pack in place of said first battery, said auxiliary battery unit including at least one second battery having a smaller size than said first battery, and an adapter which compensates for said smaller size of said second batteries in said interior of said main battery storage pack, and by which each of said resilient contacts operably connect with corresponding terminals of said second batteries, said adapter having a plurality of rigid elongated elements which define:
- a first wall guider, which abuts one side of said main battery storage pack,
- a second wall guider, which abuts a side opposite said one side of said main battery storage pack, and has a first contact part which conducts current for operably connecting said corresponding terminals of said second batteries with said resilient contacts,
- a contact guider, which abuts a side of said main battery storage pack adjacent to said resilient contacts and which includes:
- a second contact part which operably connects said corresponding terminals of said second batteries with said resilient contacts,
- a third contact part which connects respective terminals of said second batteries with one another, and
- a fourth contact part operably connected with said first contact part of said second wall guider, and
- a door guider which abuts a side of said main battery storage pack adjacent to said battery door and which has a fifth contact part which connects said respective terminals of said second batteries with one another.
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