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US 2025/0074112 A1Published application
Bicycle hub system, method and device including a front hub locking mechanism
AssigneeRed Star Holdings, LLC
InventorCasper Hendrik Badenhorst
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Abstract
A bicycle hub system, method and device including rear and front hub assemblies. Both the rear and front hub assemblies include locking mechanisms with matching undulating splined coupling faces that correspond to complementary undulating splined coupling faces of a wheel hub.
Claims26
A bicycle front hub system comprising:
- a front locking mechanism including a non-rotor-side bearing housing, a non-rotor-side bearing, a splined face plate, a rotor mount bearing and a rotor mount housing, the non-rotor-side bearing positioned around a base of the splined face plate and the rotor mount housing having a splined housing face and a rotor mount housing inner cavity, wherein the rotor mount bearing is positioned within the rotor mount housing inner cavity and the splined housing face faces the splined face plate;
- and
- a front hub positioned between the splined housing face and the splined face plate;
- wherein when the front locking mechanism is coupled to the front hub, the splined face plate rotates with the front hub as the front hub rotates.
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A front locking mechanism for a bicycle, the front locking mechanism comprising:
- a splined face plate having a splined surface;
- a non-rotor-side bearing housing;
- a non-rotor-side bearing positioned around of the splined face plate;
- a rotor mount bearing;
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- a rotor mount housing having a splined housing face and a rotor mount housing inner cavity, wherein the rotor mount bearing is positioned within the rotor mount housing inner cavity and the splined housing face faces the splined surface.
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A front hub for a bicycle, the front hub comprising:
- a pair of flanges each including a flange end and an outer flange face, the outer flange face having a central flange aperture and a plurality of flange splines;
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- a hollow tube having a first tube end coupled with the flange end of a first of the flanges and a second tube end coupled with the flange end of a second of the flanges.
A method of operating a bicycle front hub system, the method comprising:
- providing a front locking mechanism including a non-rotor-side bearing housing, a non-rotor-side bearing, a splined face plate, a rotor mount bearing and a rotor mount housing, the non-rotor-side bearing positioned around of the splined face plate and the rotor mount housing having a splined housing face and a rotor mount housing inner cavity, wherein the rotor mount bearing is positioned within the rotor mount housing inner cavity and the splined housing face faces the splined face plate;
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- coupling a front hub with the front locking mechanism between the splined housing face and the splined face plate;
- wherein when the front locking mechanism is coupled to the front hub, the splined face plate rotates with the front hub as the front hub rotates.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.