Patent ID: 7824791

Claim:
An electronic apparatus comprising: an outer housing; a battery storage compartment provided in the outer housing and having a height and a width and depth larger than the height; a cover for opening and closing an opening of the battery storage compartment; and a battery ejecting spring disposed in a deep portion of the battery storage compartment and for urging a battery being stored in the battery storage compartment along a direction of ejection of the battery from the opening, wherein the battery ejecting spring is a torsion spring including a pivot shaft linearly extending, an anchor shaft provided to one end portion of the pivot shaft, and an urging shaft provided to an other end portion of the pivot shaft, wherein the pivot shaft is supported by a wall portion to extend along the direction of the width (“width direction,” hereafter) of the battery storage compartment, the wall portion forming the battery storage compartment; the anchor shaft is anchored to a wall portion to stop rotation of the one end portion of the pivot shaft, the wall portion forming the battery storage compartment; and the urging shaft includes a tip end opposing the deep portion of the battery storage compartment and engaging with an end face of the battery being stored in the battery storage compartment, thereby to perform a pivotal movement about the pivot shaft working as a fulcrum.