Cyclocomputer

• US 9,673,865 B2
• Filed: 04/23/2015
• Issued: 06/06/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2014
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Cat Eye Co Limited (Cat Eye)
• Original Assignee: Cat Eye Co Limited (Cat Eye)
• Inventors: Tanaka, Hiroshi, Kanamaru, Tsutomu
• Primary Examiner(s): LE, NHAN T
• Application Number:
  US14/693,976
• Publication Number:
  US 20150311953A1
• Time in Patent Office: 775 Days
• Field of Search: 455 411, 455 412, 4555758
• CPC Class Codes: B62J 45/20 Cycle computers as cycle accessories
• CPC Class Codes: B62J 50/225 Mounting arrangements therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 22/002 for cycles
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/72 for local intradevice communication

Abstract

A cyclocomputer includes: a body; a display provided on an upper surface of the body and displaying prescribed information; a storage provided in the body and storing therein data including at least a portion of the prescribed information; and an NFC tag provided in the body and allowing data communication with an NFC reader writer incorporated in a mobile wireless communication terminal. The cyclocomputer can transmit via the NFC tag to the mobile wireless communication terminal at least a portion of the data stored in the storage, and the cyclocomputer can receive from the mobile wireless communication terminal via the NFC tag at least a portion of other data stored in the mobile wireless communication terminal or input to the mobile wireless communication terminal via an operation unit of the mobile wireless communication terminal.

Claims

1. A cyclocomputer attachable and detachable from a bicycle, comprising:

a body;

a display provided on an upper surface of said body and displaying prescribed information;

a storage provided in said body and storing therein data including at least a portion of said prescribed information; and

an NFC tag provided in said body and allowing NFC communication with a mobile wireless communication terminal, said NFC tag adapted to receive electric power from said mobile wireless communication terminal,

the cyclocomputer being capable of transmitting via said NFC tag to said mobile wireless communication terminal at least a portion of said data stored in said storage,

the cyclocomputer being capable of receiving from said mobile wireless communication terminal via said NFC tag at least a portion of other data stored in said mobile wireless communication terminal or input, including at least one of a circumferential length of a tire of a bicycle, a cumulative travelled distance, a cumulative travelling time, a current time, an average speed, a maximum speed, a cadence, or GPS information to said mobile wireless communication terminal via an operation unit of said mobile wireless communication terminal.

2. The cyclocomputer according to claim 1, having a function to indicate that said cyclocomputer and said mobile wireless communication terminal have completed NFC communication therebetween, or a function to cause said mobile wireless communication terminal to indicate that said NFC communication is completed.

3. The cyclocomputer according to claim 1, wherein:

said display is capable of implementing a first display state to display first information, and a second display state to display second information; and

pushing said body downward to tilt said body allows one of said first and second display states to be switched to the other of said first and second display states.