Patent ID: 9112205
Filing Date: 2015-08-18
Classification: H01M,Y02E,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method of housing a plurality of storage batteries in a battery power supply, the method comprising: providing a cabinet; providing a plurality of trays; mounting a first tray, a second tray and a third tray of the plurality of trays to the cabinet such that support surfaces of the plurality of trays are horizontally disposed and the first tray, the second tray and the third tray are separated by a vertical distance sufficient to insert a storage battery of the plurality of storage batteries into a space formed therebetween; providing a restraining device for each of the first tray, the second tray and the third tray; providing the plurality of storage batteries, each of the storage batteries having electrical terminals; inserting the plurality of storage batteries into the first tray, the second tray and the third tray such that front faces of the storages batteries disposed on the first tray, the second tray and the third tray face in a same direction; and removably fastening the restraining device to the respective first tray, the second tray and the third tray such that the storage batteries disposed on the first tray, the second and third trays are inhibited from motion towards a front of the cabinet, wherein the respective restraining device fastened to the first tray, the second tray and the third tray is spaced at a consecutively increasing horizontal distance from a plane coincident with front-most structures of the cabinet, the plane being defined over a height range corresponding to the plurality of trays, such that access to the electrical terminals is provided from a direction above the storage battery.