Patent ID: 9660229
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: B23B,B25F,H01M,Y02E,Y10T

Claim:
1. A battery pack for a device, comprising: a battery pack housing; at least one externally accessible manually actuatable battery pack release member held by the battery pack housing, the battery pack release member having an actuation stroke distance from a home position to a fully deployed position; a latch held by the battery pack housing in communication with or integral to the battery pack release member that releaseably locks the battery pack housing to the device; and a tactile feedback mechanism that is held by the battery pack housing and is in communication with the battery pack release member or defines an externally accessible part of the battery pack release member, wherein the tactile feedback mechanism generates a sudden tactile feedback at a defined trigger point of the battery pack release member that is between the home and fully deployed position that abruptly changes an application force required by a user to manually actuate the at least one release member thereby indicating to the user the latch is in a prescribed position to allow the battery pack to now be easily removed from the device.