Sony Corporation

Yutaka Usui

Takeshi Miyazaki

Takahiro Tsuge

Osamu Mizukami

Yasuhiro Okabe

Yuji Kawasaki

Michihito Kobayashi

Yuuji Sasaki

Kazuhiro Nishida

Osamu Toyoshima

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A battery pack charging device having a terminal which may be adaptively used even in case the battery pack is loaded in different loading directions to enable charging and detection of loading to reduce the cost. The battery pack charging device includes, in a loading section or in which a battery pack or is loaded, a charging terminal member or , connected to a charging terminal unit or , respectively, an actuation member actuated by the battery pack and a detection switching unit having switching elements opened or closed by the actuation member . The charging terminal unit or is mounted to a terminal block member so as to be connected to the charging terminal member of the first battery pack or to the charging terminal member of the second battery pack , respectively, in such a manner that the actuation member can be actuated in the same direction by the first battery pack or by the second battery pack.

Battery pack charging device

Growing community of inventors

Tokyo, Japan

Yutaka Usui