Battery pack
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsMieko Hara, Jiro Moriya, Tomomaru Ueda, Michihito Kobayashi, Toshiyuki Okada, Hideki Kamiya
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Abstract
Provided are a pack main body of a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape in which a battery cell is embedded, and a terminal portion provided on a front face of the pack main body. The pack main body includes bevelled portions at corner portions formed by a top face and a bottom face and opposite side faces. The terminal portion is provided, in a protruding manner, on the front face at a position biased with respect to center lines in a width direction and a height direction. The corner portions on one side have a chamfered shape and the corner portions on the other side have a rounded shape.
Claims20
A battery comprising:
- a pack main body of a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape in which a battery cell is embedded;
- and
- a terminal portion provided on a front face of the pack main body,
- wherein the pack main body includes bevelled portions at corner portions formed by a top face and a bottom face and opposite side faces,
- wherein at least a part of the terminal portion protrudes from the front face of the pack main body,
- wherein a distance from a position of the terminal portion on the front face to the top face and a distance from the position of the terminal portion to the bottom face are unequal, and a distance from the position of the terminal portion to one of the side faces and a distance from the position of the terminal portion to another of the side faces are unequal,
- wherein the bevelled portions at the corner portions formed by the opposite side faces and the bottom face of the pack main body and the bevelled portions at the corner portions formed by the opposite side faces and the top face of the pack main body comprise a rounded shape, and
- wherein the rounded shape at corner portions formed by the top face and the opposite side faces have a different radius of curvature than the bevelled portions at corner portions formed by the bottom face and the opposite side faces.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.