BICYCLE HANDLEBAR GRIP

• US 20110067522A1
• Filed: 11/28/2010
• Published: 03/24/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/08/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Bikeforce International Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Bikeforce International Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: LAI, CHING -CHUAN
• Application Number:
  US12/954,873
• Publication Number:
  US 20110067522A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 74/551.9
• CPC Class Codes: B62K 21/26 Handlebar grips twist grips B62K23/04
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/20828 Handholds and grips

Abstract

A bicycle handlebar grip contains a plastic inner shell having a tubular shape and an outer surface; a fiber layer having an inner surface and an outer surface and includes a plurality of fibers interweaving with each other and a plurality of weaving gaps located between the fibers; a plastic layer enclosed around the outer surface of the fiber layer and combined with the fiber layer integrally and including a holding portion coated on the outer surface of the fiber layer, an engaging portion penetrating through the weaving gaps if the fiber layer, and a permeating portion extending through the weaving gaps of the fiber layer into the inner surface of the fiber layer, and the permeating portion of the plastic layer is combined with the outer surface of the plastic inner shell integrally.

Claims

1. A bicycle handlebar grip comprising

a plastic inner shell having a tubular shape and an outer surface;

a fiber layer having an inner surface and an outer surface and includes a plurality of fibers interweaving with each other and a plurality of weaving gaps located between the fibers;

a plastic layer enclosed around the outer surface of the fiber layer and combined with the fiber layer integrally and including a holding portion coated on the outer surface of the fiber layer, an engaging portion penetrating through the weaving gaps if the fiber layer, and a permeating portion extending through the weaving gaps of the fiber layer into the inner surface of the fiber layer, and the permeating portion of the plastic layer is combined with the outer surface of the plastic inner shell integrally.

2. The bicycle handlebar grip as claimed in claim 1, wherein the fiber layer is made of a carbon fiber cloth

3. The bicycle handlebar grip as claimed in claim 1, wherein the fiber layer is combined with the outer surface of the plastic inner shell together by using a two-sided rubber, and then the plastic inner shell is formed.

4. The bicycle handlebar grip as claimed in claim 1, wherein the fiber layer is combined with the outer surface of the plastic inner shell together by using a bonding agent, and then the plastic inner shell is formed, the bonding agent is heated in a die and is disposed at a melted state to combine with the melted plastic material integrally, and when the melted plastic material into the die is filled into the die, both of the bonding agent and the melted plastic material are made of the same material.

5. The bicycle handlebar grip as claimed in claim 4, wherein the bonding agent is made of a thermoplastic material.