Patent ID: 6224998
Filing Date: 2001-05-01
Classification: B60R,H01M,Y02E

Abstract:
A battery subsystem secured to a frame comprising:a tray having a bottom wall with a slot formed therein locking pads depending therefrom and being inserted in respective apertures in the frame and said tray including at least three side walls with two of said side walls each having an upwardly opening slot and a third of said side wall having an inwardly facing shelf, said two side walls each having a plurality of inwardly facing spaced tab members disposed upwardly from said bottom wall;a battery having a pair of opposed walls with a plurality of tab members extending from each wall and being aligned with respective tabs on said tray;a shield covering said battery having a first wall including a lip engaged under said shelf on said tray, a second wall and a third wall each having a rim portion disposed in respective ones of said upwardly opening slots on said tray and a fourth wall having a tab portion engaged said slot in said bottom wall and a pocket formed on said fourth side wall substantially vertically aligned with said tab portion; anda clip slidably disposed in said pocket having a body portion with an end thereof positioned in said slot in said bottom wall adjacent said tab portion on said fourth wall of said shield, a locking tab resiliently formed on said body portion and being urged into engagement with a lower surface of said pocket to retain said clip an said pocket.