Automatic engine lock of electric motorcycle

• US 20130032428A1
• Filed: 03/15/2012
• Published: 02/07/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/05/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Jin Tzeng Woo, Jung Feng Lin
• Original Assignee: Jin Tzeng Woo, Jung Feng Lin
• Inventors: Woo, Jin Tzeng, Lin, Jung Feng
• Application Number:
  US13/421,853
• Publication Number:
  US 20130032428A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 180/287
• CPC Class Codes: B62J 1/12 Box-shaped seats; Bench-type seats, e.g. dual or twin seats
• CPC Class Codes: B62J 27/00 Safety equipment
• CPC Class Codes: B62K 2202/00 Motorised scooters
• CPC Class Codes: B62K 2204/00 Adaptations for driving cycles by electric motor for driving electrically assisted bicycles B62M6/00

Abstract

An electric motorcycle is provided with a battery; an electric motor; a speed regulation control electrically interconnecting the electric motor and the battery; a padded seat including a bracket and a space defined under the seat; and a safety switch including a housing threadedly secured to the bracket from below, a support tube disposed on a central portion of the housing and partially disposed in the bracket, a cup-shaped spring-activated member slidably put on the support tube and engaging the seat, two laterally extending contacts formed on the spring-activated member, a first contact member disposed under one laterally extending contact and having one end electrically connected to the electric motor, a second contact member disposed under the other laterally extending contact and having one end electrically connected to the speed regulation control, and two receptacles disposed in the housing for anchoring the first and second contact members therein.

Claims

1. An electric motorcycle comprising:

a battery;

an electric motor;

a speed regulation control electrically interconnecting the electric motor and the battery;

a padded seat comprising a bracket and a space defined under the seat; and

a safety switch comprising a housing threadedly secured to the bracket from below, a support tube disposed on a central portion of the housing and partially disposed in the bracket, a cup-shaped spring-activated member slidably put on the support tube and engaging the seat, two laterally extending contacts formed on the spring-activated member, a first contact member disposed under one laterally extending contact and having one end electrically connected to the electric motor, a second contact member disposed under the other laterally extending contact and having one end electrically connected to the speed regulation control, and two receptacles disposed in the housing for anchoring the first and second contact members therein;

wherein the laterally extending contacts electrically contact the first and second contact members respectively when the spring activated member moves along the support tube by pressing the seat.

2. The electric motorcycle of claim 1, wherein each of the first and second contact members is spring-activated.