Patent ID: 8062784

Claim:
A battery assembly comprising: an enclosure having a top and side walls forming the enclosure, one of the side walls having an opening for receiving a plurality of batteries being in electrical communication with one another disposed within the enclosure, each of the plurality of batteries having a pair of parallel tubular openings extending through the batteries, one of the tubular openings being in electrical communication with a positive pole of the battery and the other of the tubular openings being in electrical communication with a negative pole of the battery, such that when the batteries are aligned with one another within the enclosure, each of the positive tubular openings are axially aligned with each other and each of the negative tubular openings are axially aligned with each other, a positive conductor rod extending through and in electrical communication with the positive tubular openings in each of the batteries and a negative conductor rod extending through and in electrical communication with the negative tubular openings in each of the batteries, and a fastener secured to each of the ends of each of the conductor rods applying a compression load on and securing the batteries disposed within the enclosure.