Patent ID: 7859590

Claim:
An electronic device, comprising: a flat housing having an interior; a battery compartment locatable in the interior of the housing; and a device side terminal portion in the interior of the housing that is contactable with a side terminal portion of a battery stored in the battery compartment, the device side terminal portion including: a plurality of terminals each one including a battery contact portion at one end thereof that is contactable with a corresponding terminal of the side terminal portion of the battery and a printed circuit board contact portion at an opposite end thereof that is electrically connectable to the circuitry of a printed circuit board, and a terminal holder having a body portion and an overlap portion, the body portion having a first side surface and a second side surface on opposing sides of the body portion, the overlap portion protruding outward from the second side surface of the body portion such that terminal holder is substantially “L” shaped, the body portion holding the plurality of terminals such that (i) the battery contact portion of each one of the plurality of terminals protrudes outward from the first side surface of the body portion, and (ii) the printed circuit board contact portion of each one of the plurality of terminals protrudes upward from a location near an end of the overlap portion remote from the second side surface of the body portion so that when the overlap portion supports an end portion of the printed circuit board in an overlapping relationship, each one of the printed circuit board contact portions extends through respective opening in the end portion of the printed circuit board to be electrically connectable to the circuitry of the printed circuit board.