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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2002
Yutaka Usui, Tokyo, JP;
Michihito Kobayashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
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.