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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Toru Amazutsumi, Tuna-gun, JP;
Assignee:
Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R 3/00 ;
Abstract
A piece of portable electric equipment is provided with a case, a battery pack housed in the case, and an input/output (I/O) connector which is exposed outside the case and has charging terminals. The I/O connector is accessible inside the case and has connecting terminals which contact battery terminals on the battery pack housed in the case. The portable electric equipment case holds the battery pack with its battery terminals in direct contact with the connecting terminals of the I/O connector.