Bicycle on-board device and related mounting method

• US 8,979,111 B2
• Filed: 06/11/2012
• Issued: 03/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Campagnolo S.R.L.
• Original Assignee: Campagnolo S.R.L.
• Inventors: Dal Pozzo, Massimo
• Primary Examiner(s): Hurley, Kevin
• Application Number:
  US13/493,485
• Publication Number:
  US 20120313344A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,009 Days
• Field of Search: 280/288.4, 180/68.5, 224/425
• US Class Current: 280/288.4
• CPC Class Codes: B62J 11/04 for bottles
• CPC Class Codes: B62J 50/22 electronic, e.g. displays
• CPC Class Codes: B62J 50/225 Mounting arrangements therefor
• CPC Class Codes: B62K 19/30 Frame parts shaped to receive other cycle parts or accessories axle suspensions B62K25/00
• CPC Class Codes: B62K 19/40 for attaching accessories, e.g. article carriers, lamps

Abstract

A bicycle on-board device having a body that includes a containment space and is sized for insertion into a tube of a bicycle frame. The device has fastener locations that are located to match fastener locations on the bicycle frame for attaching cycling items, such as a bottle cage.

Claims

1. Device that mounts within a portion of a bicycle frame, the device comprising:

an oblong body that is dimensioned to fit within a cavity defined within a portion of a bicycle frame, defines an interior cavity of sufficient size to receive at least one electronic component, and includes a first portion of a mated fastener pair; and

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a second portion of said mated fastener pair that joins with said first portion of said mated fastener pair and fixes said body in a defined location within said portion of said bicycle frame.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein said body comprises an internally threaded hole for receiving an externally threaded fastener associated with said defined location on said portion of said bicycle frame.

3. The device according to claim 1, wherein said body comprises an internally threaded hole including threading that is the same as an internal threading associated with said defined location on said portion of said bicycle frame.

4. The device according to claim 1, wherein the device includes a groove that extends along a longitudinal axis (X) of said body and is sized to receive a portion of an insert through which a bottle cage is fastened to said bicycle frame at at least one fastener location defined on said portion of said bicycle frame.

5. The device according to claim 4, wherein said groove extends along said longitudinal axis (X) from an end of the body to an internal abutment surface positioned along said longitudinal axis (X).