US 12,407,048 B2
Terminal configuration for a battery pack
Jeffrey M. Brozek, Mequon, WI (US); Donald J. Truettner, Waukesha, WI (US); Lance D. Lamont, Brookfield, WI (US); Burtrom L. Stampfl, Bristol, WI (US); Timothy R. Obermann, Waukesha, WI (US); Matthew J. Mergener, Mequon, WI (US); Seyed A. Hamidi, Milwaukee, WI (US); Jacob N. Zimmerman, Pewaukee, WI (US); and Kyle J. Radovich, West Bend, WI (US)
Assigned to Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation, Brookfield, WI (US)
Filed by MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATION, Brookfield, WI (US)
Filed on Feb. 14, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/671,378.
Application 17/671,378 is a division of application No. 15/934,798, filed on Mar. 23, 2018, granted, now 11,251,508.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/475,951, filed on Mar. 24, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0231387 A1, Jul. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. H01M 50/204 (2021.01); H01M 10/44 (2006.01); H01M 10/48 (2006.01); H01M 50/55 (2021.01); H01M 50/557 (2021.01); H01M 50/562 (2021.01); H02J 7/00 (2006.01); H01M 10/42 (2006.01)
CPC H01M 50/204 (2021.01) [H01M 10/441 (2013.01); H01M 10/482 (2013.01); H01M 50/55 (2021.01); H01M 50/557 (2021.01); H01M 50/562 (2021.01); H02J 7/0063 (2013.01); H02J 7/00712 (2020.01); H01M 10/4257 (2013.01); H01M 2220/30 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electrical combination comprising:
a battery pack including:
a pack housing,
a plurality of battery cells supported by the pack housing, and
a pack terminal electrically connected to the battery cells; and
an electrical device including:
a device housing,
a circuit supported by the device housing, and
a device terminal electrically connected to the circuit and electrically connectable to the pack terminal to electrically connect the circuit to one or more battery cells;
one of the pack terminal and the device terminal including:
a terminal blade extending along an axis and having opposite axially-extending faces connected by opposite axially-extending edges, and
a terminal support portion extending transverse to the axis and beyond an associated face.