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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 1998
Filed:
Apr. 03, 1996
Fritz Josef Kourimsky, Bensheim, DE;
The Whitaker Corporation, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
An automotive battery connection assembly comprises terminals for automated connection to battery posts, and a housing with plus and minus pole circuitry mounted therein. The terminal comprises a contact section and a rotatable spring element that has tabs that cam against the periphery of the contact section. Rotation of the spring element thus clamps the battery post between the spring element and the contact section. The latter design enables robotic assembly of the battery terminals to battery posts, for example by means of a tool having pins that engage in slots of the spring element. Within the housing, a linear actuation motor drives a bridge element between tabs of the plus and minus pole circuits respectively for short circuiting the battery in the occurrence of an accident. The short circuiting blows the high current fuse thereby disconnecting power supply to most devices of the automobile. The latter is to prevent occurrence of electrical fires.