US 11,685,037 B2
Battery pack interface
Kyle J. Radovich, West Bend, WI (US); Cameron R. Schulz, Milwaukee, WI (US); Mitchell Carlson, Lisbon, WI (US); John G. Marx, Hartford, WI (US); Paul Rossetto, Milwaukee, WI (US); and David M. Schwalbach, Milwaukee, WI (US)
Assigned to Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation, Brookfield, WI (US)
Filed by MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATION, Brookfield, WI (US)
Filed on Nov. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/532,630.
Application 17/532,630 is a division of application No. 15/845,063, filed on Dec. 18, 2017, granted, now 11,179,841, issued on Nov. 23, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/463,427, filed on Feb. 24, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/435,443, filed on Dec. 16, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2022/0080575 A1, Mar. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. H01M 10/46 (2006.01); B25F 5/02 (2006.01); H02J 7/00 (2006.01); H01R 13/53 (2006.01); H01M 50/267 (2021.01); B23B 45/02 (2006.01); H01M 10/42 (2006.01); H01R 13/703 (2006.01)
CPC B25F 5/02 (2013.01) [B23B 45/02 (2013.01); H01M 10/4257 (2013.01); H01M 10/46 (2013.01); H01M 50/267 (2021.01); H01R 13/53 (2013.01); H02J 7/0044 (2013.01); H02J 7/0045 (2013.01); B23B 2260/024 (2013.01); H01M 2220/30 (2013.01); H01R 13/7038 (2013.01); Y10S 439/911 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electrical combination comprising:
an electrical device including a device housing providing a device support portion, and a circuit supported by the device housing; and
a battery pack including a battery pack housing providing a pack support portion for engagement with the device support portion, a battery cell supported by the battery pack housing, power being transferrable between the battery cell and the circuit when the battery pack is connected to the device;
one of the device support portion and the pack support portion including a body and a rail extending along an axis, the rail and the body defining a space therebetween, the space having a first dimension proximate a first axial location, a second dimension at a second axial location, and a third dimension at a third axial location, the first dimension, the second dimension, and the third dimension being different, and the other of the device support portion and the pack support portion including a first portion positionable in the space at the first axial location, a second portion positionable in the space at the second location, and a third portion positionable in the space at the third location,
wherein the pack support portion includes the body and the rail defining the space therebetween, and wherein the device support portion includes an axially-extending device rail providing the first portion, the second portion, and the third portion, and
wherein the device support portion includes a device body, the device rail and the device body defining a second space therebetween, the second space having a fourth dimension proximate the first portion, a fifth dimension proximate the second portion, and a sixth dimension proximate the third portion, the fourth dimension, the fifth dimension and the sixth dimension being different.