Locking mechanism for battery housings
US5974303A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Apr 18, 1997 |
| Grant date | Oct 26, 1999 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 18, 2017 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10T292/0894
- WIPO fieldTelecommunications
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A battery housing for an electrical device, such as a portable telephone, has a locking mechanism that locks the battery housing in place onto the housing of the portable device. The locking mechanism has a locking finger that is inserted into an opening in the device housing. The locking finger is spring mounted on the housing bottom of the battery housing and collaborates with at least one sliding surface which preferably has the shape of an inclined plane over which the locking finger can be forced out of the locked position by means of a movable key.
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