Patent ID: 7704099

Claim:
A manual disconnect system, comprising: a battery part having a main compartment with fuse assembly subcompartment disposed in the main compartment; a disconnect part having a shielding cover defining a disconnect part cavity, the disconnect part being releasably connected to the battery part; a circuit assembly disposed in the disconnect part cavity and connected to the shielding cover; a fuse assembly sized and adapted to be releasably received by the fuse assembly subcompartment; and a fuse connector and a circuit connector connected to the battery part, wherein, when the disconnect part is releasably connected to the battery part, the fuse assembly and the fuse connector are electrically connected together and the circuit assembly and the circuit connector are electrically connected together, and, upon detaching the disconnect part and the battery part from each other, the circuit assembly and the circuit connector are electrically disconnected from one another while the fuse assembly remains releasably connected to the battery part in the fuse assembly subcompartment and electrically connected to the fuse connector.