Patent ID: 8288987

Claim:
A device for recharging a battery of a battery-powered portable ionizing-radiation sensor having a sensor and a recharging base to recharge the sensor, the sensor configured to rest on the recharging base, wherein: the sensor comprises: one or more accessible faces; a plurality of electrical-contact areas on the one or more accessible faces, the plurality of electrical-contact areas electrically connected to the battery that powers the sensor; and the recharging base comprises: a housing having one or more openings; and one or more mobile contacts electrically connected to a power source, the one or more mobile contacts movable between a first position and a second position, wherein when in the first position the one or more mobile contacts protrude from the housing through at least one of the one or more openings in the housing, and when in the second position the one or more mobile contacts are retracted inside the housing, and wherein the one or more mobile contacts are configured to electrically contact at least a portion of the plurality of electrical-contact areas of the sensor if one or more of the plurality of electrical-contact areas are positioned facing the one or more openings of the housing when the mobile contacts are in the first position protruding from the recharging base.