Bicycle manual control device and bicycle electronic system

• US 10,723,413 B2
• Filed: 04/04/2018
• Issued: 07/28/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 04/06/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Campagnolo S.R.L.
• Original Assignee: Campagnolo S.R.L.
• Inventors: Fossato, Fabiano, Masciolini, Marco
• Primary Examiner(s): Rogers, Adam D
• Application Number:
  US15/945,372
• Publication Number:
  US 20180290714A1
• Time in Patent Office: 846 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B62J 45/00 Electrical equipment arrangements specially adapted for use as accessories on cycles, not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: B62K 23/02 hand actuated arrangements of controls on handle-bars of engine-driven cycles B62K11/14
• CPC Class Codes: B62M 25/08 with electrical or fluid transmitting systems
• CPC Class Codes: B62M 9/132 electrically or fluid actuated; Controls thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/325 Power saving in peripheral device
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3287 by switching off individual functional units in the computer system

Abstract

A bicycle manual control device for issuing at least one electric-electronic command to at least one piece of bicycle equipment, comprising a support body, configured to be fixed to the bicycle, at least one manual actuation member supported in a movable manner by the support body, and on-board electronics having a standby mode and an operating mode, further comprising a detector of movement of the bicycle configured to emit a wake signal to bring said on-board electronics from standby mode to operating mode. A bicycle electronic system including the bicycle manual control device is also disclosed.

Claims

1. A bicycle manual control device for issuing at least one electric-electronic command to at least one piece of bicycle equipment, the bicycle manual control device comprising:

a support body, configured to be fixed to a bicycle,

at least one manual actuation member supported in a movable manner by the support body,

on-board electronics having a standby mode and an operating mode, and

a movement detector of the bicycle configured to emit a wake signal to bring said on-board electronics from the standby mode to the operating mode.

2. The bicycle manual control device according to claim 1, wherein the movement detector comprises a vibration sensor.

3. The bicycle manual control device according to claim 1, wherein the movement detector has a standby mode.

4. The bicycle manual control device according to claim 1, wherein the on-board electronics comprises at least one actuation detector configured to detect the actuation by a cyclist of said at least one manual actuation member and generate a control signal in response thereto.

5. The bicycle manual control device according to claim 4, wherein said at least one actuation detector comprises a switch or a sensor.

6. The bicycle manual control device according to claim 4, wherein the on-board electronics comprises a processing module of the control signal generated by said at least one actuation detector.

7. The bicycle manual control device according to claim 4, wherein the on-board electronics comprises a communication module configured to send, directly or indirectly, said control signal to said at least one piece of bicycle equipment.

8. The bicycle manual control device according to claim 4, wherein said at least one actuation detector comprises a magnetic field sensor.

9. The bicycle manual control device according to claim 1, wherein the manual control device comprises an electric power supply circuit.

10. An electronic system of a bicycle, comprising at least one bicycle manual control device according to claim 1, and at least one piece of equipment controlled by said at least one bicycle manual control device.

11. The electronic system according to claim 10, wherein said at least one bicycle manual control device comprises a first communication module, and a component of the electronic system comprises a second communication module, the first communication module and the second communication module being configured to communicate with each other.

12. The electronic system according to claim 11, wherein the first communication module and the second communication module are wireless communication modules.

13. The electronic system according to claim 11, wherein said at least one piece of equipment controlled by said manual control device comprises the second communication module.

14. The electronic system according to claim 11, wherein the first communication module and the second communication module follow a synchronous communication protocol.

15. The electronic system according to claim 10, wherein the movement detector of the at least one bicycle manual control device is configured to send a wake signal also to the at least one controlled piece of equipment.

16. A bicycle manual control device for issuing at least one electric-electronic command to at least one piece of bicycle equipment, the bicycle manual control device comprising:

a support body, configured to be fixed to a bicycle,

at least one manual actuation member supported in a movable manner by the support body,

on-board electronics having a standby mode and an operating mode, and a movement detector of the bicycle configured to emit a wake signal to bring said on-board electronics from the standby mode to the operating mode,

wherein the movement detector has a standby mode and the on-board electronics, once the on-board electronics has been brought into the operating mode through the wake signal generated by the movement detector, sends the movement detector into the standby mode.

17. The bicycle manual control device according to claim 16, wherein the on-board electronics is configured to remain in the operating mode until a sleep condition has been reached, the movement detector then entering the operating mode.

18. A bicycle manual control device for issuing at least one electric-electronic command to at least one piece of bicycle equipment, the bicycle manual control device comprising:

a support body, configured to be fixed to a bicycle,

at least one manual actuation member supported in a movable manner by the support body,

on-board electronics having a standby mode and an operating mode, and

a movement detector of the bicycle configured to emit a wake signal to bring said on-board electronics from the standby mode to the operating mode, the movement detector has a standby mode, and

wherein the movement detector is configured to automatically enter the standby mode immediately after the wake signal has been sent to the on-board electronics.

19. The bicycle manual control device according to claim 18, wherein the on-board electronics is configured to remain in the operating mode until a sleep condition has been reached, the movement detector then entering the operating mode.