Patent ID: 7758996

Claim:
A portable communications device comprising: a housing having a battery compartment that is defined between a front wall and a back wall, the front wall comprising a pair of opposed catches, each catch being located toward a side of the front wall and being arranged to protrude into the battery compartment; and a battery package that is releasably retained in the battery compartment, the battery package comprising: a casing that is defined by front and rear faces and top and bottom ends between which left and right side extend, the top end of the casing being received at the front wall of the battery compartment of the housing and the bottom end of the casing being received at the back wall of the battery compartment; a pair of opposed slidably moveable latching members being located at the top end of the casing and each toward a side of the casing, each latching member comprising an operable user contacting portion that is exposed at the front face of the casing and which is integrally formed with a latching portion that extends toward the rear face of the casing and which is arranged to engage with a respective catch of the battery compartment, the user contacting portion and latching portion being substantially aligned vertically with each other; and a biasing member or members that are arranged to urge the latching members to slide away from each other to cause their latching portions to engage with their respective catches of the battery compartment to thereby secure the battery package within the battery compartment and wherein the user contacting portions of the latching members are operable to cause their respective latching portions to slide toward each other to disengage from their respective catches to enable the battery package to be removed from the battery compartment.