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US 7,729,822 B2Granted
Bicycle provided with an on-board control system and automatic rental system comprising said bicycles
AssigneeJCDecaux SA
InventorsJacques Le Gars, Jean-Claude Lamy, Jacques Darras, Patrick Tavernier
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Abstract
A bicycle fitted with an on-board control system which is adapted in such a way that it can control the state of a functional element of the bicycle, in order to detect an error in the operation of said functional element and in order to signal said error.
Claims26
A bicycle, comprising:
- an on-board control system;
- a first communication interface electrically linked to the control system;
- at least one functional element, wherein said control system is configured to control the state of the functional element and communicate to a fixed infrastructure, via the first communication interface, status information concerning the state of said functional element;
- and
- at least one brake and a dynamo, and in which the control system comprises a memory and is configured to:
- detect an actuation of the brake,
- measure an electrical intensity of a current generated by the dynamo,
- write to the memory status information characteristic of a failure of the brake when the control system detects the actuation of said brake without detecting a reduction in said electrical intensity,
- transmit said status information characteristic of a failure of the brake to the first communication interface.
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A bicycle, comprising:
- an on-board control system,
- a first communication interface electrically linked to the control system;
- at least one functional element, wherein said control system is configured to control the state of the functional element and communicate to a fixed infrastructure, via the first communication interface, status information concerning the state of said functional element;
- and
- two independent front lighting circuits, each comprising at least one front lamp, and in which the control system is configured to:
- supply current, at mid-power, to each front lighting circuit,
- detect a failure in any one of the front lighting circuits, and
- supply one of the front lighting circuits with current, at full power, when a failure has been detected in the other circuit.
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A bicycle, comprising:
- an on-board control system;
- a first communication interface electrically linked to the control system;
- at least one functional element, wherein said control system is configured to control the state of the functional element and communicate to a fixed infrastructure, via the first communication interface, status information concerning the state of said functional element and
- at least one front lighting circuit comprising at least one front lamp,
- at least one rear lighting circuit comprising a first rear lamp,
- a dynamo,
- a battery electrically linked to the dynamo to be recharged by said dynamo and at least partly supplying the front and rear lighting circuits,
- in which the control system is configured to:
- control the front and rear lighting circuits,
- measure the battery charge,
- reduce an electrical intensity supplying the front lighting circuits when the measured charge is less than a predetermined minimum value.
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A bicycle, comprising:
- an on-board control system;
- a first communication interface electrically linked to the control system;
- at least one functional element, wherein said control system is configured to control the state of the functional element and communicate to a fixed infrastructure, via the first communication interface, status information concerning the state of said functional element, and wherein the control system further includes a memory and is configured to:
- receive an identification code via the first communication interface,
- write said identification code into the memory,
- detect an operation of the bicycle,
- if the bicycle is operating, compare the value of the identification code with at least one predetermined value, and
- depending on this comparison, initiate or not initiate an alarm reaction, in which the control system is configured to initiate the alarm reaction when the value of the identification code corresponds to said predetermined value.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.