Patent ID: 9735528
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: G06F,H01M,H01R,Y02E

Claim:
1. An interposer, comprising: a substrate having a top surface and a bottom surface; first spring connectors, located at the top surface and configured to couple to a battery-management circuit board in a power supply; and second spring connectors, located at the bottom surface and electrically coupled to the first spring connectors, and configured to couple to a motherboard, wherein: i) a first subset of the first spring connectors has a first vertical height when not in contact with the battery-management circuit board, ii) a second subset of the first spring connectors has a second vertical height when not in contact with the battery-management circuit board, iii) the first subset is associated with power signals and the second subset is associated with monitoring signals for the power supply, and iv) the first vertical height is larger than the second vertical height.