Holder for recharging a wireless microphone

Abstract

A holder for a wireless microphone includes a pair of terminals electrically connected to a power supply and mounted in a recess of a holder member for engaging corresponding terminals on an elongated handle body of the wireless microphone. In one embodiment, the holder includes an axially offset opening, a rib, a groove or other orienting provision form mating with a corresponding axially offset protrusion, a groove, a rib or other mating orienting provision on the microphone handle body to ensure engagement of the microphone terminals with the holder terminals. In another embodiment, first terminals of the microphone and holder terminals are axially centered and second terminals of the microphone and holder terminals are offset from the axis with one of the second terminals being annular.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.