US 12,334,579 B2
Battery pack with handle
Wyatt R. Silha, Milwaukee, WI (US); Zachery Meyer, Hartland, WI (US); and John G. Marx, Hartford, WI (US)
Assigned to Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation, Brookfield, WI (US)
Filed by MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATION, Brookfield, WI (US)
Filed on Sep. 13, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/473,154.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/078,231, filed on Sep. 14, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0085451 A1, Mar. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. H01M 50/256 (2021.01); B65D 25/28 (2006.01); H01M 50/262 (2021.01)
CPC H01M 50/256 (2021.01) [B65D 25/28 (2013.01); H01M 50/262 (2021.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
9. A battery pack comprising:
a housing,
a recess defined in a surface of the housing,
a longitudinal axis extending through the housing, and
a movable handle assembly coupled to the housing, the movable handle assembly including
an elongate flexible member spanning across at least a portion of the recess, the movable handle assembly moving from a retracted position to an extended position, the extended position including the elongate flexible member disposed farther from the housing than in the retracted position, and
a handle mount coupled directly to the housing on each of two opposing sides of the recess, each handle mount coupled to the housing outside of the recess, and each handle mount defining a closure space and having a post extending into the closure space, each post having a passage therein,
wherein a plane containing the longitudinal axis bisects the movable handle assembly and the recess.