US 10,093,372 B2Granted

Adjustable assembly for a bicycle

AssigneeSpecialized Bicycle Components, Inc.

InventorsMichael McAndrews, Ron Powers

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Abstract

According to some embodiments, an adjustable assembly for a bicycle comprises a first support and a second support slidably positioned within at least a portion of the first support, such that one of the first support and the second support is adapted to attach to a first bicycle portion and the other of the first support and the second support is adapted to attach to a second bicycle portion. In some embodiments, the second support comprises an expansion portion configured to be selectively moved between an expanded position and a retracted position. In one embodiment, the expansion portion is configured to contact and engage at least one portion of the first support when the expansion portion is in an expanded position, and the first support is configured to be selectively moved relative to the second support when the expansion portion is permitted to assume a retracted position.

Claims6

Dependent claims

An adjustable assembly for a bicycle, comprising:

a first support;
a second support;
wherein the first support and the second support are configured to be slidably movable relative to one another;
a shaft received within and connected to one of either the first or second supports, and an expansion portion connected to the other of the first or second supports;
a retention assembly configured to selectively move the expansion portion between a radially inward position and a radially outward position;
wherein one of the first support and the second support is configured to attach to a bicycle frame, and wherein the other of the first support and the second support is configured to attach to a bicycle saddle;
wherein the shaft has a surface that defines at least one groove and the expansion portion contacts and engages the at least one groove in the radially inward position to maintain the expansion portion within the at least one groove;
a biasing member that imparts a force within the assembly in an attempt to urge the first support apart from the second support, wherein the biasing member is configured to elevate the adjustable assembly when the expansion portion is in the radially outward position.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/004,385Filed 22 Jan 2016 · continuation
Priority: 11 Mar 2011
Published: US 2016/0236741 A118 Aug 2016
Granted: 9 Oct 2018
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification12 codes

B62J 1/08
Saddles or other seats for cycles; Arrangement thereof; Component parts: frames for saddles; Connections between saddle frames and seat pillars;…
B62K 19/18
Cycle frames: joints between frame members
B62K 25/08
With telescopic fork, e.g. including auxiliary rocking arms: for front wheel
F16B 7/1409
Locking in intermediate non-discrete positions: with balls or rollers urged by an axial displacement of a wedge or a conical member

Family

Application61/452,024Us provisional application · filed 11 Mar 2011
Application13/417,069Parent of this continuation · filed 9 Mar 2012
Application14/586,762Parent of this continuation · filed 30 Dec 2014
US 8,926,216 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 6 Jan 2015
US 2016/0236741 A1Pre-grant publication · published 18 Aug 2016
US 9,242,688 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2012/0228906 A1Published application
US 2015/0183475 A1Published application
US 10,093,372 B2This patent

From the US filing history. Foreign family members aren’t listed.