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US 9,287,063 B2Granted
Bicycle handle system
AssigneeRTI Sports Vertrieb von Sportartikeln GmbH
InventorsMichael Mueller, Andreas Krause
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Abstract
A bicycle handlebar system comprises a control element for controlling an electric auxiliary motor, said element being adapted to be fastened to the handlebar. The control element has a housing, wherein a plurality of switching elements is arranged in recesses in the housing, one membrane button is arranged in the housing per switching element, the switching element acting on said membrane button, and the membrane buttons are interconnected through a common flexibly conductor path.
Claims14
A bicycle handle system comprising:
- a control element for controlling an electric auxiliary motor, said control element being adapted to be fastened on a bicycle handlebar next to a handle element,
- wherein
- the control element comprises a housing, a plurality of switching elements being arranged in recesses in the housing,
- one membrane button is arranged inside the housing for each switching element, the switching element acting on the membrane button,
- the membrane buttons are interconnected via a common flexible conductor path,
- the control element comprising an actuation element being rotatable on a bearing element, and
- the housing forming the actuation element.
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A bicycle handle system comprising:
- a control element for controlling an electric auxiliary motor, said control element being adapted to be fastened on a bicycle handlebar next to a handle element,
- wherein
- said control element comprises a housing, a plurality of switching elements being arranged in recesses in said housing,
- one membrane button is arranged inside said housing for each of said plurality of switching elements, said switching element acting on said membrane button, and
- said membrane buttons being interconnected via a common flexible conductor path wherein said control element comprises an actuation element rotatable on a bearing element, and that at least one switching tab is provided at said actuation element, said bearing element or a fixing element adapted to be fastened to said bicycle handlebar, said at least one switching tab acting on a membrane button when said actuation element is turned relative to said bearing element, wherein said at least one switching tab is connected with said bearing element or said fixing element and protrudes into said actuation element.
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A bicycle handle system comprising:
- a control element for controlling an electric auxiliary motor, said control element being adapted to be fastened on a bicycle handlebar next to a handle element,
- wherein
- said control element comprises a housing, a plurality of switching elements being arranged in recesses in said housing,
- one membrane button is arranged inside said housing for each of said plurality of switching elements, said switching element acting on said membrane button, and
- said membrane buttons being interconnected via a common flexible conductor path
- wherein said control element comprises an actuation element rotatable on a bearing element, and that at least one switching tab is provided at said actuation element, said bearing element or a fixing element adapted to be fastened to said bicycle handlebar, said at least one switching tab acting on a membrane button when said actuation element is turned relative to said bearing element, wherein the actuation element comprises a switching depression for rotation relative to the bearing element.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.