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US 7,165,641 B2Granted
Bicycle power supply with discharge function
AssigneeShimano Inc.
InventorSatoshi Kitamura
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Abstract
A bicycle power supply apparatus comprises a battery unit; a bicycle condition detecting unit that detects when a bicycle is in a selected condition that ordinarily does not require drawing current from the battery unit for powering a current drawing element; and a current drawing unit that causes current to be drawn from the battery unit when the bicycle condition detecting unit detects the selected condition.
Claims20
A bicycle power supply apparatus comprising
- A battery unit,
- A bicycle condition detecting unit that detects when the bicycle is in a selected condition that ordinarily does not require drawing current from the battery unit for powering a current-drawing element, and,
- A voltage decreasing unit that decreases voltage of the battery unit when the selected condition is detected by providing a signal to activate the current-drawing element to draw current from the battery unit to cause the voltage of the battery to decrease.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.