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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2013
Applicant:
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Inventors:
Jason Evans Goulden, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Manuel Rinley Deeds, III, Boulder Creek, CA (US);
Mi Zhou, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Shelomon Patrick Doblack, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Assignee:
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01M 2/10 (2006.01); H01M 2/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01M 2/1022 (2013.01); H01M 2/105 (2013.01); H01M 2/1005 (2013.01); H01M 2/202 (2013.01);
Abstract
Described in this disclosure are battery contacts for use in electronic devices usable without soldering to a circuit board. The battery contact includes one or more contact features supported by leaf springs. The contact features touch a corresponding pad on the circuit board at time of assembly, providing an electrically conductive pathway. One or more of the battery contacts may include a spring-biased member configured to apply pressure to one or more batteries.