---
publication_id: "OT-2026-000001645"
title: "Battery guide pins for a battery receiving space of a materials handling vehicle, and materials handling vehicles incorporating the same"
published_at: "2026-09-15T19:07:16.946097Z"
canonical_url: "https://opentechnical.org/p/OT-2026-000001645"
categories:
  - "lifting-positioning-manipulation/lift-tables-and-positioners"
keywords:
  - "b60k1/04"
  - "b66f9/07531"
  - "b66f9/07536"
  - "b60l2200/44"
  - "b60l50/64"
  - "b60l50/64"
---

# Battery guide pins for a battery receiving space of a materials handling vehicle, and materials handling vehicles incorporating the same

## Abstract

21824186_1 (GHMatters) P120166.AU.1 A materials handling vehicle including a battery receiving space, and a removable battery assembly, wherein: the battery receiving space includes opposing pairs of battery guide pins, each opposing pair arranged on opposite sides of the battery receiving space, and each opposing pair includes a latching pin and a guiding pin; the removable battery assembly includes a battery locking mechanism; the battery locking mechanism includes spring-loaded locking pins that are spring-biased in extended positions and are movable from the extended positions to respective retracted positions; the latching pin of each opposing pair of battery guide pins includes a recess forming a battery latch that is positioned to receive a leading portion of one of the spring-loaded locking pins in the extended position.