US 11,811,250 B2
Removable battery pack and/or electrical consumer with an electromechanical interface for supplying energy
Arindam Haldar, Ostfildern (DE); Axel Kuhnle, Freiberg (DE); Benjamin Grauer, Stuttgart (DE); Christian Wiedemann, Wiernsheim (DE); Jan Breitenbach, Stuttgart (DE); Marcin Rejman, Waiblingen (DE); Tobias Mangold, Murrhardt (DE); and Tobias Overbeck, Weinstadt (DE)
Assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart (DE)
Filed by Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart (DE)
Filed on Jul. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/382,530.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 210 377.1 (DE), filed on Aug. 14, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0052542 A1, Feb. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. H02J 7/00 (2006.01); G01N 25/72 (2006.01); H01R 13/66 (2006.01)
CPC H02J 7/00309 (2020.01) [G01N 25/72 (2013.01); H01R 13/6683 (2013.01); H02J 7/0042 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electrical consumer system comprising:
an electrical consumer with a first mating interface and a first plurality of electrical contacts;
a removable battery pack including a second mating interface and a second plurality of electrical contacts, the second mating interface configured to removably mate with the first mating interface such that the second plurality of contacts contact the first plurality of contacts, wherein
at least one of the first and second mating interfaces includes a temperature sensor configured to detect at least one of a temperature of the at least one of the first and second mating interfaces, and a temperature of the first or second electrical contacts of the at least one of the first and second mating interfaces.