Battery charger

Patent · Tue Oct 07 04:00:00 EDT 1980

OSTI ID:6576855

Feeney, J D; Gonsalves, A W; Nardella, P C; Wrublewski, T A

An improved battery charger of the type having a housing with a source of electrical energy therein suitable for recharging units capable of being electrically recharged is described. The housing includes a plurality of cavities each arranged to accommodate a unit to be recharged, and each cavity has electrical contacts which are positioned to contact the terminals of the unit inserted into each cavity for delivering electrical energy to that unit. The improvement comprises a switch in each cavity which is activatable by insertion of the unit therein, the switch being separate from and free from direct contact with the electrical contacts, but electrically connected to the energy source which, in turn, energizes the electrical contacts for recharging the unit upon activation of the switch. A battery pack unit capable of being recharged including a housing with a first pair of electrically conductive metallic strips on the outside of a side portion thereof, and a second pair of metallic strips on the outside of a top portion of the housing. A plurality of batteries is in the housing, the batteries being electrically connected to each other and to both pairs of the metallic strips. One of the strips in each pair is a negative terminal and the other strip in each pair is a positive terminal for the pack unit.

• Assignee: Codman and Shurtleff, Inc.
• Patent Number(s): US 4227140
• OSTI ID: 6576855
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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