Patents Assigned to Hirotetsu Motobu
  • Patent number: 5427208
    Abstract: A bicycle front wheel control mechanism made up of a suspension system and a brake system. The suspension system has an eccentric retainer having an axle and two L-shaped members, and a shaft portion is carried by a housing through an elastic body at a perpendicularly upper part of the axle. The suspension system is so designed that it can rock relative to the front wheel around an axis of the shaft portion with an axial distance between the shaft portion and the axle as its radius, and the brake system is so designed that a side surface of a rim is made wide in a radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1995
    Assignees: Hirotetsu Motobu, Koji Yoshioka, Masanobu Kita
    Inventors: Hirotetsu Motobu, Koji Yoshioka, Masanobu Kita, Tadanori Azuma