Bicycle crankarm provided with electric/electronic system
AssigneeCampagnolo S.r.l.
InventorsFabiano Fossato, Keith Joseph Wakeham
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Abstract
A bicycle crankarm provided with an electric/electronic system, including a battery power unit, a processor having a standby mode and a running mode, and a wake unit that emits a wake signal of the processor, wherein the wake unit is completely supported by or in the crankarm.
Claims19
A bicycle crankarm comprising:
- an electric/electronic system including a battery power unit, a processor having a standby mode and a running mode, and a wake unit that emits a wake signal for the processor,
- wherein said wake unit is powered by said battery power unit, is completely contained within the crankarm, and operates independently of any other element external to the crankarm.
A bicycle crankarm comprising:
- an electric/electronic system including:
- a battery power unit,
- a processor having a standby mode and a running mode, and
- a wake unit that emits a wake signal for the processor, the wake unit comprising:
- a bicycle presumed use detector, and;
- a crankarm actual use detector,
- wherein said wake unit is completely supported by or in the crankarm, and
- the processor after entering into the running mode, turns the actual use detector on, and, before entering into the standby mode, turns the actual use detector off.
A bicycle crankarm comprising:
- an electric/electronic system including a battery power unit, a processor having a standby mode and a running mode, and a wake unit that emits a wake signal for the processor,
- wherein said wake unit is completely supported by or in the crankarm, wherein the crankarm is monolithic and made of composite material comprising structural fiber incorporated in a polymeric matrix, the crankarm being co-molded with a printed circuit board carrying said wake unit.
Bicycle crankarm provided with an electric/electronic system, including a battery power unit, a processor having a standby mode and a running mode, and a wake unit that emits a wake signal for the processor, wherein said wake unit is completely supported by or in the crankarm,
- wherein the wake unit comprises a bicycle presumed use detector and a crankarm actual use detector embodied by a same component of the wake unit, said same component having a normal running mode and a low-power running mode, in the normal running mode acting as presumed use detector and as actual use detector, and in the low-power running mode acting as presumed use detector.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.