Patent ID: 6094357
Filing Date: 2000-07-25
Classification: H01M,H05K,Y02E

Abstract:
A product including(1) a printed circuit board which comprises a printed-circuit part having at least one conductor track and a terminal part which is connected to the printed-circuit part along a breaking zone and which can be removed from the printed-circuit part by severing the breaking zone, and(2) a rechargeable battery having two terminals, which are each connected to a terminal zone on the terminal part of the printed circuit board in an electrically conductive manner,(3) retaining means for mechanically retaining the battery, which battery, after the terminal part of the printed circuit board has been severed from the printed-circuit part of the printed circuit board, together with the severed terminal part of the printed circuit board can be removed from the product in order to dispose of the battery, wherein the retaining means and the printed circuit board are arranged and constructed so as to be mechanically separate from one another, in such a manner that the printed circuit board does not form part of the retaining means for mechanically retaining the battery, and each of the two terminals of the battery is connected to a terminal zone on the terminal part of the printed circuit board in an electrically conductive manner via a mechanically flexible and electrically conductive connecting means.