Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Handlebar locking mechanism, handlebar locking device, and moving body
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Application No.: US15756081Application Date: 2017-01-10
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Publication No.: US10538285B2Publication Date: 2020-01-21
- Inventor: Shunji Mori , Hiroyuki Onitsuka , Hiroaki Takeya
- Applicant: OMRON CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Kyoto-shi
- Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kyoto-shi
- Agency: Metrolex IP Law Group, PLLC
- Priority: JP2016-034702 20160225
- International Application: PCT/JP2017/000479 WO 20170110
- International Announcement: WO2017/145534 WO 20170831
- Main IPC: B62H5/06
- IPC: B62H5/06 ; E05B71/00 ; B62J99/00 ; B62H5/00 ; B62H5/04

Abstract:
The present invention provides a handlebar locking mechanism and a handlebar locking device, each of which (i) can be used for a moving body whose traveling direction is changed with a handlebar and (ii) which makes it difficult to unlock the handlebar by a forcible method such as breaking. The handlebar locking device (20) includes an engagement hole (11c) made in a steering column (11a), a lock pin (31) which locks a handlebar (5) in a case where a pin tip part (31a) of the lock pin (31) is engaged with the engagement hole (11c), and a lock pin drive mechanism which (i) moves, in a case where the handlebar (5) is to be locked, the lock pin (31) so that the pin tip part (31a) is engaged with the engagement hole (11c) and (ii) moves, in a case where the handlebar (5) is to be unlocked, the lock pin (31) so that the pin tip part (31a) is removed from the engagement hole (11c). The engagement hole (11c), the lock pin (31), and the lock pin drive mechanism being contained and provided in a frame (2) of a bicycle (1) so as to be not viewable from outside of the bicycle (1).
Public/Granted literature
- US20180362105A1 HANDLEBAR LOCKING MECHANISM, HANDLEBAR LOCKING DEVICE, AND MOVING BODY Public/Granted day:2018-12-20
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