Patent ID: 6488532
Filing Date: 2002-12-03
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
A charger-to-battery connecting cable comprising:an elongated connecting flat flex cable composed of a pliable and flexible composition and having a pair of integral opposite ends terminating a length of said connecting flat cable; said flat cable having a width greater than its thickness; a selected end of said pair of integral opposite ends having a socket connector and the other end having caps; said socket connector provided with a pair of electrical connectors with openings leading into said socket connector; a pair of flat electrical conductors embedded in said length of connecting cable arranged in parallel fixed, spaced-apart relationship extending between and terminating with said caps and said socket electric connectors respectively; said caps and said socket electrical connectors identified with visual polarity indicia wherein selected ones of said caps and said socket electrical connectors are connected together in matching polarity indicia; said caps are snap-on terminal connectors; a gravity deployable and movable panel hingeably carried on said socket connector as a unitary construction for selectively covering said openings; said openings are configured with a particular and critical geometry representing a coded pattern keyed with and cooperating with said visual polarity indicia to be indexed with and registered with an identically coded pattern disposed on a battery charger plug; said caps include snap-lock sockets detachably connectable with a pair of battery terminals outwardly projecting from a battery; said length of said connecting flat cable includes a first section and a second section; said socket connector disposed on said first section and said caps disposed on said second section; said first section having a width narrower than a width of said second section; and said elongated connecting flat cable, including said flat conductors, constitutes a flex cable having full bending and flexing characteristics.