Bicycle headset
AssigneeTien Hsin Industries Co., Ltd.
InventorMing-Lun Hsieh
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Abstract
A bicycle headset includes a lower cup, a bearing, a pressed ring, and an upper cup. The lower cup includes a first surface and a block extended on the first surface. The bearing is engaged in the lower cup. The pressed ring is rotatably engaged in the bearing. The upper cup is rotatably engaged with the lower cup and includes a second surface facing the first surface, and a channel extended in the second surface and having an arc shape. The channel includes first and second stop walls. The channel receives the block and includes the first and second stop walls selectively abutted against the block. The first and second stop walls are distanced from each other with an arc length. The arc length has an angle not greater than 180 degrees.
Claims8
A bicycle headset for journaling a steering tube of a fork assembly in a head tube of a bicycle frame, comprising:
- a lower cup including first and second ends, a first hole extending therethrough and longitudinally from the first end to the second end, a first surface defined at the second end, and a block extended on the first surface, with the lower cup including the first end having a first outer periphery and the second end having a second outer periphery respectively, with the first outer periphery having a first diametrical size and the second end having a second diametrical size respectively, with the first diametrical size smaller than the second diametrical size;
- a bearing engaged in the first hole of the lower cup and including a second hole extending therethrough;
- a pressed ring rotatably engaged in the second hole of the bearing and including a third hole extending therethrough;
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- an upper cup rotatably engaged with the lower cup and including a fourth hole extending therethrough, a second surface facing the first surface, and a channel extended in the second surface and having an arc shape, with the channel including first and second stop walls, with the channel receiving the block and including the first and second stop walls selectively abutted against the block, with the first and second stop walls distanced from each other with an arc length with the arc length having an angle not greater than 180 degrees;
- wherein the first and second surfaces are flat surfaces;
- wherein the upper cup is stopped from being moved in a first direction when the block is abutted against the first stop wall and in a second direction when the block is abutted against the second stop wall, with the first direction opposite to the second direction;
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- wherein the lower cup includes the first end received in the head tube and the first hole receiving the steering tube when the bicycle headset interconnects the steering tube and the head tube.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.