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US 12,630,255 B2Granted
Bicycle frame storage system
AssigneeENVE Composites, LLC
InventorsScott M. Neperud, Navarro Peña Guerra, Kevin E. Nelson, Clint L. Child
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Abstract
A bicycle may include a frame, a cover and a latch. The frame may include a hollow tube having an interior and an access opening to the interior, wherein the cover closes the access opening. The latch is slidably coupled to the tube and releasably secures the cover to the tube. The latch is movable relative to the tub and the cover between a latched state and an unlatched state, wherein the latch remains coupled to the tube and is disconnected from the cover in the unlatched state.
Claims20
A bicycle comprising:
- a frame comprising a hollow tube having an interior and an access opening to the interior;
- a cover closing the access opening, the cover having an exterior facing away from an interior of the hollow tube and a bottom side facing the interior of the hollow tube;
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- a latch slidably coupled to the tube and releasably securing the cover to the tube, the latch being movable relative to the tube and the cover between a latched state and an unlatched state, wherein the latch remains coupled to the tube and is disconnected from the cover in the unlatched state,
- wherein the latch is movably coupled to the tube, wherein the latch, in the latched state, projects over and on an exterior side of a portion of the bottom side of the cover that is below, covered and concealed, from an outside of the tube, by the exterior of the cover to retain the cover to the tube, wherein the latch, in the unlatched state, does not project over the portion of the cover to permit movement of the cover relative to the tube, and wherein the cover and the latch have corresponding exterior surface shapes that are flush when the latch is in the latched state.
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A bicycle comprising:
- a frame comprising a hollow tube having an interior and an access opening to the interior, the hollow tube longitudinally extending along a longitudinal axis;
- a cover closing the access opening;
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- a latch movably coupled to the tube on a longitudinal end of the access opening and longitudinally spaced from the longitudinal end of the access opening, the latch releasably securing the cover to the tube, the latch being slidable relative to the cover in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the tube between a latched state and unlatched state.
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A bicycle comprising:
- a frame comprising a hollow tube having an interior and an access opening to the interior;
- a cover closing the access opening;
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- a latch slidably coupled to the tube and releasably securing the cover to the tube, the latch being movable relative to the tube and the cover between a latched state and an unlatched state, wherein the latch remains coupled to the tube and is disconnected from the cover in the unlatched state,
- wherein the latch is slidable relative to the cover in a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the tube between the latched state and the unlatched state,
- wherein the cover and the latch have corresponding exterior surface shapes that are flush when the latch is in the latched state,
- wherein the cover and the latch have perimeter exterior surfaces flush with adjacent exterior surfaces of the tube about the access opening,
- wherein the cover is completely detachable and separable from the tube in response to the latch being in the unlatched state,
- wherein the latch is configured to remain attached to the tube while the cover is completely detached and separated from the tube, and
- wherein the cover comprises a first end portion having a slot extending along a first axis and a passage wider than the slot and extending above the slot, and wherein the tube comprises a knob having a shaft portion slidable within the slot along the first axis and a head portion wider than the slot and slidable within the passage so as to be insertable into and slidable along the passage and along first axis while being captured within the passage against movement along a second axis perpendicular to the the first axis.
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