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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2019
Filed:
May. 24, 2017
Robert Bosch Gmbh, Stuttgart, DE;
Christoph Klee, Stuttgart, DE;
Mickael Segret, Stuttgart, DE;
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
A rechargeable battery pack including at least one interface for establishing a mechanical and/or electrical connection of the rechargeable battery pack to a hand-held power tool and/or a charging device. The interface includes contact elements for the electrical and/or mechanical contacting of corresponding contact elements on the hand-held power tool and/or corresponding contact elements on the charging device, at least one contact element being a signal contact element electrically connected to a coding element. The rechargeable battery pack also includes a rechargeable battery pack electronics system configured for providing information regarding the rechargeable battery pack via the signal contact element, and storing at least in part in the coding element, and a microcontroller connected to the rechargeable battery pack electronics system in such a way that the microcontroller detects when information is called up at the signal contact element by a hand-held power tool and/or by a charging device.