Patent ID: 8048552
Filing Date: 2011-11-01
Classification: H01M,Y02E

Abstract:
1. A battery module mount for securing a battery module to a housing of a handheld device, comprising: two latch elements attached to the housing on opposite sides thereof, each said latch element being movable between a free position and an unlatched position therefor, each said latch element comprising a tab portion; two elongate wires, each said wire being operatively associated with each said latch element respectively, each said wire having a substantially consistent cross-sectional area and biasing the latch element associated therewith to the free position therefor; each said latch element being positionable in a latched position, in which the wire associated therewith urges each said latch element respectively to the free position therefor; two mating means attached to the battery module on opposite sides thereof, each said mating means being operatively associated with each said tab portion respectively, each said mating means comprising an abutment with which the tab portions are respectively engageable when the latch elements are in the latched position to hold the abutments in retainable positions respectively, thereby securing the battery module to the housing; and each of the tab portions being disengaged from the abutments when the latch elements are each in the unlatched position therefor, to permit removal of the battery module from the housing.