Bicycle electronic equipment
AssigneeCampagnolo S.r.l.
InventorFederico Miglioranza
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Abstract
A bicycle electronic equipment configured to be attached to a location of the bicycle includes a data processing system, a multicolour light source, and a switch. The switch includes a push-button and a two-state electric circuit. The data processing system is configured to: (a) make the light source emit cyclically repeating N coloured light emitting patterns, with N>=3, wherein coloured light emitting patterns immediately consecutive in the cyclical repetition differ in color and/or type of emitting pattern; (b) monitor the state of the switch during execution of step (a); and (c) perform a different action among N different actions according to which of the N coloured light emitting patterns the source is emitting upon the state switching of the switch.
Claims17
A bicycle electronic equipment configured to be attached to the bicycle in a single location, comprising:
- a controller, and
- a user interface, the user interface comprising;
- a multicolour light source, and
- a switch comprising a manual actuation push-button and a two-state electric circuit,
- wherein the controller is configured to, in a first mode,
- a) control the multicolour light source to emit cyclically repeating a first number N of coloured light emitting patterns, with N>=3, wherein coloured light emitting patterns immediately consecutive in the cyclical repetition differ in color and/or type of emitting pattern,
- b) monitor a state of the switch during execution of step a), and
- c) upon switching of the state of the switch, based on a coloured light and/or coloured light emitting pattern emitted at the time of switching, instruct a component of the bicycle not involving the multicolour light source to perform an action.
A bicycle electronic equipment configured to be attached to the bicycle in a single location, comprising:
- a controller, and
- a user interface comprising;
- a multicolour light source, and
- a switch comprising a manual actuation push-button and a two-state electric circuit, wherein the controller is configured to, in a first mode,
- a) control the multicolour light source to emit cyclically repeating a first number N of coloured light emitting patterns, with N>=3, wherein coloured light emitting patterns immediately consecutive in the cyclical repetition differ in color,
- b) monitor a state of the switch during execution of step a), and
- c) upon switching of the state of the switch, based on a coloured light emitted at the time of switching, instruct a component of the bicycle not involving the multicolour light source to perform an action.
A method of controlling bicycle equipment, the method comprising:
- providing a bicycle electronic equipment configured to be attached to a bicycle in a single location, the bicycle electronic equipment comprising:
- a controller, and
- a user interface, the user interface comprising:
- a multicolour light source, and
- a switch comprising a manual actuation push-button and a two-state electric circuit,
- controlling the multicolour light source to emit cyclically repeating a first number N of coloured light emitting patterns, with N>=3, wherein coloured light emitting patterns immediately consecutive in the cyclical repetition differ in color and/or type of emitting pattern,
- monitoring a state of the switch, and
- upon switching of the state of the switch, based on a coloured light and/or coloured light emitting pattern emitted at the time of switching, instructing a component of the bicycle not involving the multicolour light source to perform an action.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.