Handlebar
AssigneeCyclesport North Limited
InventorsAndrew Smallwood, Jamie Burrow
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Abstract
A handlebar for controlling a travelling direction of a vehicle. The handlebar comprises: an elongate transverse support for mounting to a vehicle, the transverse support extending substantially along a transverse axis between a first end thereof and a second end thereof; wherein the transverse support comprises a first wake promotion portion configured to promote wake formation downstream thereof relative to one or more adjacent non-wake promotion portions of the transverse support when air flows over the handlebar in a flow direction substantially perpendicular to the transverse axis.
Claims35
A handlebar for controlling a travelling direction of a vehicle, the handlebar comprising:
- an elongate transverse support for mounting to a vehicle, the transverse support extending along a transverse axis between a first end thereof and a second end thereof;
- wherein the transverse support comprises a first wake promotion portion configured to promote wake formation downstream thereof relative to one or more adjacent non-wake promotion portions of the transverse support when air flows over the handlebar in a flow direction substantially perpendicular to the transverse axis, wherein the first wake promotion portion has a substantially aerofoil-shaped profile with a truncated trailing edge defining a first downstream wall, the first downstream wall joined to a remainder of the profile via a first corner and a second corner.
A handlebar for controlling a travelling direction of a vehicle, the handlebar comprising:
- an elongate transverse support for mounting to a vehicle, the transverse support extending along a transverse axis between a first end thereof and a second end thereof;
- wherein the transverse support comprises a first wake promotion portion configured to promote wake formation downstream thereof relative to one or more adjacent non-wake promotion portions of the transverse support when air flows over the handlebar in a flow direction substantially perpendicular to the transverse axis, wherein the first wake promotion portion has a substantially aerofoil-shaped profile and at least one of the one or more non-wake promotion portions has an aerofoil-shaped profile, and wherein the substantially aerofoil-shaped profile of the first wake promotion portion has a greater angle of attack with respect to the flow direction relative to the aerofoil-shaped profile of the at least one of the one or more non-wake promotion portions.
A handlebar for controlling a travelling direction of a vehicle, the handlebar comprising:
- an elongate transverse support for mounting to a vehicle, the transverse support extending along a transverse axis between a first end thereof and a second end thereof;
- wherein the transverse support comprises a first wake promotion portion configured to promote wake formation downstream thereof relative to one or more adjacent non-wake promotion portions of the transverse support when air flows over the handlebar in a flow direction substantially perpendicular to the transverse axis, wherein a variable thickness of the first wake promotion portion substantially normal to the flow direction tapers towards at least one of the first end and the second end of the transverse support.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.