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US 9,610,802 B2Granted
Bicycle wheel hub with molded spoke holes
AssigneeENVE Composites, LLC
InventorsBrett Satterthwaite, Carl Jacob Turner
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Abstract
A hub for a bicycle wheel includes a hub shell that defines one or more spoke holes. The hub shell includes a fiber reinforced material. The fiber reinforced material has one or more reinforcement fibers bending around the spoke holes to remain continuous around the spoke holes. One or more flanges with the spoke holes extend from the hub shell at an outer radial direction. A clutch or freehub adapter is coupled to the hub shell. Depending on the type of clutch mechanism used in the freehub, different clutch adapters can be incorporated into the hub.
Claims27
An apparatus, comprising:
- a hub for a bicycle wheel, the hub including
- a hub shell defining one or more spoke holes to receive one or more spokes, and
- the hub shell including a fiber reinforced material, the fiber reinforced material having one or more reinforcement fibers bending around the one or more spoke holes to remain continuous around the spoke holes, wherein the one or more reinforcement fibers are oriented in a woven pattern around the one or more spoke holes to remain intact around the one or more spoke holes, wherein the one or more reinforcement fibers define the one or more spoke holes.
An apparatus, comprising:
- a hub for a bicycle wheel, the hub including
- a hub shell composed of a fiber reinforced material,
- one or more flanges extending from the hub shell at an outer radial direction, wherein the one or more flanges have one or more spoke holes to receive one or more spokes,
- wherein the fiber reinforced material have one or more reinforcement fibers oriented in a woven pattern around the one or more spoke holes to remain intact around the one or more spoke holes,
- wherein the one or more reinforcement fibers define the one or more spoke holes, and
- wherein the fiber reinforced material extends from the hub shell to the one or more flanges.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.