Patent ID: 9530993
Filing Date: 2016-12-27
CPC Classification: H01M,H04M,Y02E

Claim Text:
1. A battery holding device comprising: a battery housing portion which is adapted to house a first battery and a second battery, the first battery to be housed at a predetermined position, the first battery and the second battery being adjacently housed according to a lateral direction, the lateral direction being perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the first battery, wherein the extension of the first battery in the longitudinal direction is larger than the extension of the first battery in the lateral direction; and a conductive terminal which is disposed in a sidewall portion of the battery housing portion, and which is to be in contact with an electrode terminal of the first battery, wherein the sidewall portion of the battery housing portion is formed with: when the conductive terminal is pressed by the electrode terminal of the first battery, the conductive terminal is elastically deformed in the first direction, when the first battery is housed at the predetermined position, the conductive terminal, which is elastically deformed, is retracted in the first cutout, when the electrode terminal of the first battery presses the conductive terminal in the second direction, before the first battery is housed at the predetermined position, the conductive terminal is retracted in the second cutout, the conductive terminal is elastically deformable to a side in the lateral direction with respect to the longitudinal direction of the first battery which is housed at the predetermined position, and the second cutout is formed only in a part that is the side in the lateral direction to which the conductive terminal is elastically deformable with respect to the first cutout and that is opposite to a side where the second battery is to be housed in the battery housing portion.