Connecting structure of terminals
AssigneeMakita Corporation
InventorsMasaaki Fukumoto, Hitoshi Suzuki, Syuji Yoshikawa
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Abstract
A connecting terminal structure allows providing additional terminals without an increase in the width of a battery pack and an electric apparatus. In a connecting terminal structure according to the present invention, a battery pack is provided with a plurality of terminals having different functions arranged in a sliding direction, and an electric apparatus is provided with a terminal to be connected to one of the plurality of terminals of the battery pack. Through relative sliding between the battery pack and the electric apparatus, before the terminal in the electric apparatus reaches the terminal in the battery pack, the terminal in the electric apparatus can pass through another terminal in the battery pack.
Claims16
A connecting structure of electrical terminals for establishing electrical contact between a battery pack and an electric apparatus by sliding attachment of the battery pack to the electric apparatus, the structure comprising:
- a plurality of terminals having different functions arranged in the sliding direction in one of the battery pack and the electric apparatus;
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- at least one terminal provided in the other one of the battery pack and the electric apparatus, the at least one terminal being connected with a corresponding terminal in the one of the battery pack and the electric apparatus;
- wherein before the at least one terminal reaches the corresponding terminal during the sliding, the at least terminal can pass through another terminal provided in the one of the battery pack and the electric apparatus.
A combination of connecting terminals for establishing electrical contact between a battery pack and an electric apparatus through relative sliding movement therebetween, comprising:
- a plurality of terminals provided in the battery pack, the terminals having different functions and arranged in the sliding direction;
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- at least one terminal provided in the electric apparatus, the at least one terminal being connected with a corresponding terminal in the battery pack;
- wherein before the at least one terminal reaches the corresponding terminal, the at least terminal in the electric apparatus can pass through another terminal in the battery pack.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.