Patent ID: 6577101
Filing Date: 2003-06-10
Classification: H01M,H02J,Y02E

Abstract:
A battery loading system, comprisinga plurality of battery packs, each of said plurality of battery packs having a casing, each of said casings having a length extending in a longitudinal direction and a width extending in a first direction substantially transverse to said longitudinal direction; and a battery loading portion adapted to receive selected ones of said plurality of battery packs in an assembled position; said battery loading portion in an assembly orientation having a length extending in said longitudinal direction and a width extending in said first direction, and including a receiving surface and a discrimination projection member protruding outwardly from said receiving surface, said discrimination projection member having a predetermined dimension extending in said first direction; said casing of each of said plurality of battery packs having a bottom surface, said bottom surface having a discrimination recess disposed therein, said discrimination recess including a bottom surface formed with a discriminating groove located substantially on a width-wise centerline of said bottom surface of said discrimination recess, said discrimination projection member being insertable in said discrimination recess in said selected ones of said plurality of battery packs and not being insertable in said discrimination recess in a group of said battery packs other than selected ones such that only said selected ones of said plurality of battery packs are loadable in said assembled position on said battery loading portion.