ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,076, issued on Sept. 16.
"Device for making releasable contact with a battery cell" was invented by Gerhard Waldschutz (Freistadt, Austria), Wolfgang Schmudermaier (Eisgarn, Austria), Florian Drexler (Freistadt, Austria) and Peter Dobusch (Grunbach, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device is described for detachable contacting of a battery cell (4) having a cell receptacle open against a joining direction (2), which cell receptacle is delimited by a contact spring base (1), from which contact tongues (3) protrude against the joining direction (2) for the jacket-side enclosure of the battery cell (4). To propose a device for ...