Bicycle electric component
AssigneeShimano Inc.
InventorsTakafumi Suzuki, Takaya Masuda, Toshihiko Takahashi, Masafumi Tanaka
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Abstract
A bicycle electric component comprises a wireless communicator and a detector. The wireless communicator is configured to receive a wireless signal. The wireless communicator has a first operating mode and a second operating mode. A power consumption of the second operating mode is lower than a power consumption of the first operating mode. The detector is to detect an operational state of a bicycle. The wireless communicator is configured to change from the second operating mode to the first operating mode in a state where the wireless communicator receives the wireless signal and the detector detects the operational state of the bicycle.
Claims9
A bicycle electric component comprising:
- an electric actuator;
- a detector configured to determine whether a bicycle is in an operational state or in a non-operational state based on an output from at least one sensor;
- a wireless communicator configured to receive a wireless signal, the wireless communicator having a plurality of operating modes including a first operating mode and a second operating mode, a power consumption of the second operating mode being lower than a power consumption of the first operating mode, the wireless signal including a control signal to control the electric actuator, the wireless communicator being activated in both the first operating mode and the second operating mode;
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- a bicycle component controller configured to control the electric actuator based on the control signal received by the wireless communicator,
- the bicycle component controller being configured to change an operating mode of the wireless communicator to the first operating mode when the wireless communicator receives the wireless signal in a state where the detector determines the bicycle is in the operational state while the wireless communicator is in the second operating mode,
- the wireless communicator continuing to be in the second operating mode regardless of a time for which the detector determines the bicycle is in the non-operational state if the bicycle component controller does not change the operating mode of the wireless communicator to the first operating mode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.