US 12,015,168 B2
Electric terminals with concentric springs
W. Porter Harris, Pasadena, CA (US)
Assigned to POWER.GLOBAL, PBC, Pasadena, CA (US)
Filed by POWER.GLOBAL, PBC, Pasadena, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 16, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/696,592.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/162,414, filed on Mar. 17, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0302561 A1, Sep. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. H01M 50/30 (2021.01); H01M 10/613 (2014.01); H01M 10/653 (2014.01); H01M 10/6551 (2014.01); H01M 10/6556 (2014.01); H01M 10/6557 (2014.01); H01M 50/213 (2021.01); H01M 50/262 (2021.01); H01M 50/271 (2021.01); H01M 50/284 (2021.01); H01M 50/296 (2021.01); H01M 50/509 (2021.01); H01M 50/559 (2021.01); H01M 50/584 (2021.01); H01M 10/6563 (2014.01)
CPC H01M 50/271 (2021.01) [H01M 10/613 (2015.04); H01M 10/653 (2015.04); H01M 10/6551 (2015.04); H01M 10/6556 (2015.04); H01M 10/6557 (2015.04); H01M 50/213 (2021.01); H01M 50/262 (2021.01); H01M 50/296 (2021.01); H01M 50/394 (2021.01); H01M 50/509 (2021.01); H01M 50/559 (2021.01); H01M 50/584 (2021.01); H01M 10/6563 (2015.04); H01M 50/284 (2021.01); H01M 2220/20 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A battery holder, comprising:
a negative electric terminal that includes a first coiled spring;
a positive electric terminal that includes a second coiled spring, wherein the first coiled spring and the second coiled spring are ring-shaped, and the first coiled spring encloses the second coiled spring or the second coiled spring encloses the first coiled spring; and
a pin that aligns mating of the negative electric terminal and mating of the positive electric terminal to a battery module.