US 12,214,651 B2
Battery device and electric bicycle
Norihiro Morozumi, Shizuoka (JP); and Noriyasu Ishikawa, Shizuoka (JP)
Assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Shizuoka (JP)
Filed by YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Iwata (JP)
Filed on Jul. 26, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/873,233.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-126242 (JP), filed on Jul. 30, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0030226 A1, Feb. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. B60K 1/04 (2019.01); B60L 50/64 (2019.01); H01M 50/249 (2021.01); H01M 50/264 (2021.01); B60L 53/80 (2019.01)
CPC B60K 1/04 (2013.01) [B60L 50/64 (2019.02); H01M 50/249 (2021.01); H01M 50/264 (2021.01); B60L 53/80 (2019.02); H01M 2220/20 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A battery device comprising:
a battery;
a battery mount including a first support and a second support respectively supporting a first end and a second end of the battery to allow attachment/detachment of the battery;
a first movement restrictor provided at the first end of the battery;
an engaging portion provided in the first support and movable between an engaged position to engage with the first movement restrictor and a disengaged position in which engaging portion is not engaged with the first movement restrictor; and
a second movement restrictor provided in the first support to position the engaging portion at the engaged position to restrict the engaging portion from moving toward the disengaged position; wherein
the battery is removable from the battery mount in a removal direction that is either a direction in which the battery is pivoted around the second end of the battery, or a direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the battery;
the engaged position and the disengaged position of the engaging portion extend along a widthwise direction or the longitudinal direction of the battery; and
the engaged position is a position where the engaging portion is in engagement with the first movement restrictor to make the battery non-removable from the battery mount, and the disengaged position is a position where the engaging portion is not in engagement with the first movement restrictor to make the battery removable from the battery mount.