Handholds And Grips Patents (Class 74/551.9)
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Patent number: 7671299Abstract: A heating assembly used for providing heat to the hands of a person using equipment with handlebars. The heating assembly is installed internal to the handlebars and provides heat to the handlebar grips normally installed on equipment of this type. This system works with existing grips, i.e. special heated grip systems are not required. The current invention is thus usable with a wider variety of handlebar grip devices currently used on motorcycles, snowmobiles, snow blowers and other outdoor devices utilizing handlebars.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2007Date of Patent: March 2, 2010Inventors: Charles Jacob Gifford, Joseph Roger Plessel, Roland Benjamin Knapton
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Publication number: 20100011905Abstract: A handlebar grip for a bicycle includes a handlebar, two hard shells detachably combined with each other to form a clamping housing which presses an outer wall of the handlebar and is provided with at least one hollow portion, and a soft inner sleeve clamped between an inner wall of the clamping housing and the outer wall of the handlebar and having an outer wall provided with at least one soft protruding portion extending through the hollow portion of the clamping housing and protruding outwardly from an outer wall of the clamping housing to form a soft holding surface. Thus, the two shells of the clamping housing and the inner sleeve can be changed individually according to a user's requirement, thereby enhancing the versatility of the handlebar grip.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2008Publication date: January 21, 2010Inventor: Jin-Cang Li
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Publication number: 20090314127Abstract: Side-hill extreme ergo grip bar ends comprising of an upright or ‘L’ shaped handle bar, ergo curves, and a screw attached to the handle bar, to provide safety, stability and additional leverage to the vehicle rider such as a snowmobiler while making hard turns and side hilling in the mountain slopes. Each bar end grip can be outfitted with an auxiliary throttle trigger. The auxiliary throttle mount is capable on either bar end grip or both bar end grips The ergo grip bar ends provide the snowmobiler the necessary space to accommodate his fingers covered by snow gloves and also provides space for attaching both from auxiliary throttle which can be triggered on inside grip of bar end or outside at bend of ‘L’ for safety and increased mobility. The ergo grip bar ends are made of stiff and strong material to accommodate heavy weight bearing. The top of the bend of ‘L’ contains a soft tip option to avoid discomfort if rider's leg were to come into contact.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2009Publication date: December 24, 2009Inventor: ADAM LONGNECKER
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Publication number: 20090293668Abstract: A throttle control apparatus includes a throttle control sleeve rotatably mounted on a handlebar of a vehicle, a throttle control housing fixed to the handlebar, and a throttle sensor unit housed in the throttle control housing. The throttle sensor unit is operable to detect a rotational angle of the throttle control sleeve. The throttle control housing is rotatably engaged with an outer periphery of the throttle control sleeve. The throttle sensor unit includes a rotary member having a spline hole formed therein, a fixed contact and a movable contact for detecting rotation of the rotary member. The throttle control sleeve and the throttle sensor unit are engaged with each other by spline fitting. A throttle return mechanism and the sensor unit are arranged in an overlapping manner in an axial direction. Handle switches are arranged on a vehicle body center side of the throttle control housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2009Publication date: December 3, 2009Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuya Kondo, Koichi Nozoe, Koichi Shimamura
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Publication number: 20090282946Abstract: An ergonomic handgrip for bicycle handlebars comprises a central body joined to a countered portion extending, starting from the central body, toward the rear of the handgrip with reference to the bicycle advancing direction, the contoured portion defining a top bearing surface, thereon a hand of the user can bear, and a bottom surface, operating as a finger gripping portion for the user hand, the ergonomic handgrip comprising moreover a ventilating arrangement adapted to allow air to circulate through the handgrip.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2009Publication date: November 19, 2009Applicant: SELLE ITALIA S.R.L.Inventor: Giuseppe Bigolin
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Publication number: 20090255093Abstract: A handle grip has a body and at least one clamping ring. The body is tubular and has two ends, an outer surface and two mounting rings. The two mounting rings coaxially and respectively protrude from the two ends of the body. The clamping ring is mounted securely on one of the mounting rings of the body and has an opening, a fastening hole and a fastener. The opening is a slot formed through the clamping ring. The fastening hole is tangentially formed through the clamping ring and either side of the opening. A person may mount the body on handlebars of a motorcycle or a handle of a tool and use the clamping ring to ensure the body is held securely.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2008Publication date: October 15, 2009Inventor: Chia-Wei Hsu
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Publication number: 20090223320Abstract: A vehicular handlebar grip includes a central portion, a grip portion, and a support portion. The central portion includes a first end and a second end. The grip portion is located at one side of the central portion, extending toward a direction away from a long axis extending from the first end toward the second end. The support portion is located an opposite side of the central portion relative to the grip portion, extending toward a direction away from the long axis. Accordingly, when the vehicular handlebar grip is applied to a bicycle, the cyclist can adjust the contact area where the wrist lies against the support portion according to the cyclist's different riding postures to allow more space for movement of the palm for more comfortableness.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2009Publication date: September 10, 2009Inventors: Chia-Pin CHEN, Kuo-Chih CHAO
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Publication number: 20090183591Abstract: A hand grip with half-shells is constructed so as to be able to be fastened to a tubular pipe, and is provided with a mounting opening for the tubular pipe which on the one hand is securely fastened to the tube and on the other hand does not have any intrusive bores in the grip region, in which there is to be a generous space available for a grip mechanism. Each half-shell is provided with a holding arrangement corresponding to the tubular pipe, so that the two holding arrangements form a form-fitting mounting for the respective half-shell on the tubular pipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2009Publication date: July 23, 2009Applicant: DOLMAR GMBHInventor: Mark Jesse
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Publication number: 20090158883Abstract: Grip actuated control system to provide operational control of vehicle functions at a gripping surface of handlebar equipped vehicles. The system can be provided as original equipment and as an aftermarket addition or replacement for existent vehicle controls. The system includes one or more grip controls positioned adjacent a user's fingertips in a grip or glove assembly which are in communication with a control module. The control module is connected to existent or provided vehicle wiring and thus to respective operational equipment such that user actuation of a grip control induces the control module to provide a corresponding output to activate/deactivate or regulate the operation of the respective vehicle equipment. Communication between the grip controls and control module can be wireless for increased flexibility in installation and placement of the module on the vehicle. Combinations, sequences, and relative timing of the grip controls can provide numerous distinct control functions.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2008Publication date: June 25, 2009Inventors: Timothy Gerald Ledford, Steven O'Toole Dodson
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Publication number: 20090158884Abstract: The present invention provides a positioning assembly for a gripping tube of a handlebar. The positioning assembly comprises a gripping tube sheathing the handlebar, wherein each of two ends of the gripping tube is positioned by a fastening ring, which has an annular shape, a slit, an outer ring periphery and an inner ring periphery. Therein, a prominence radially raised and two increased-thickness portions are provided on the inner ring periphery so that when the slit of the fastening ring is narrowed, the fastening ring can tightly embrace an outer surface of the handlebar with the prominence and the two increased-thickness portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2007Publication date: June 25, 2009Inventors: Chang-Chin Kuo, Hsi-Kai Shih
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Publication number: 20090056495Abstract: A bicycle handlebar assembly having a stem portion constructed to engage a stem tube that is rotationally supported by a frame and a handlebar that is co-molded to the stem portion. Preferably, the stem portion and the handlebar are constructed to dissimilar materials. More preferably, the stem portion is constructed to a metal-type material and the handlebar is constructed of a carbon-fiber material. The stem portion and the handlebar are constructed such that the handlebar engages the stem portion and is secured thereto during formation of the handlebar assembly by co-molding. Such a construction provides a bicycle handlebar assembly that is lightweight, robust, and can be efficiently produced.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2007Publication date: March 5, 2009Inventors: Todd Bischoff, Barry Lewis
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Patent number: 7494081Abstract: A grip for a fishing reel handle knob includes a tubular-shaped main wall having a longitudinally extending central axis and forming a longitudinally extending interior passage sized and shaped for receiving the handle knob and a plurality of gripping flanges extending from an exterior surface of the main wall. The main wall and the gripping flanges are each preferably formed of a resiliently flexible material so that the grip is resiliently secured to the handle knob with elastic action and the gripping flanges resiliently deform when the knob is grasped by the user.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2005Date of Patent: February 24, 2009Assignee: Reel Grip, Ltd.Inventors: Angelo N. Savakis, Daniel E. Broadbent, Mark Shull
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Publication number: 20090038184Abstract: Apparatuses and methods are provided for heating the handle(s) of power equipment using exhaust produced by an internal combustion engine, including a machine powered by an internal combustion engine, an operator grippable handle, with an interior, and a tubular structure routing the exhaust produced by the internal combustion engine to the interior of the handle. One or more adjustable apertures provide regulation of exhaust in communication with the interior of the handle, wherein the heating of the handle is selectably controlled.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2007Publication date: February 12, 2009Inventor: Rodion Kornienko
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Publication number: 20090031847Abstract: End caps are retained by handlebar grip clamps. The grip clamps include recesses to attach to protrusions on an outside end of handlebar grips, interior circumferential portions which clamp against the handlebar, and outward facing mouths with inside grooves. The grip clamps may be loosely attached to the handle grips allowing insertable portions of the end caps to be inserted into the mouths. The insertable portions include tapered portions to facilitate insertion into the mouths of the loosely tightened clamps, and raised captured portions and recessed portions for retention of the end caps by the inside grooves of the mouths. The grip clamps may then be tightened onto the handlebars and thereby both lock the handlebar grips onto the handlebars and retain the end caps. Damaged end caps may later be replaced by loosening the clamps without requiring removal of the clamps or the grips for easy repair.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2007Publication date: February 5, 2009Inventor: EARL DAVID GRIMES
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Publication number: 20080276751Abstract: A bicycle handlebar grip includes an inner fiber layer and an outer plastic layer. Thus, the fiber layer is light and hard to reduce the weight and increase the structural strength of the bicycle handlebar grip, while the plastic layer is soft and has an adjustable thickness to provide a comfortable sensation to a user. In addition, the plastic layer includes a holding portion coated on the outer surface of the fiber layer, an engaging portion penetrating through the weaving gaps of the fiber layer, and a permeating portion extending through the weaving gaps of the fiber layer into the inner surface of the fiber layer to enhance the combination strength between the fiber layer and the plastic layer and to enhance the structural strength of the bicycle handlebar grip.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2007Publication date: November 13, 2008Inventor: Ching-Chuan Lai
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Patent number: 7445071Abstract: A saddle type vehicle is provided in which a valve shaft for a throttle valve is rotatably supported on an air intake path forming body, and a valve shaft actuator is connected to an end of the valve shaft in such a way that the rotational movement of the valve shaft is fed back to the throttle grip, whereby it is not necessary to extend a cable between the between the valve shaft and the throttle grip, and the rotational movement of the valve shaft can be fed back to the throttle grip. A grip-driving electric motor, which is moved by the amount of movement according to the amount of rotation of the valve shaft in response to the operation of the actuator, is disposed on the steering handle, and is interlocked and connected to the throttle grip.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2006Date of Patent: November 4, 2008Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ryutaro Yamazaki, Seizo Tamura
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Publication number: 20080257102Abstract: A motorcycle handlebar grip 4 which attaches using a positive mechanical method, to a fixed anchorage point 1 which is secured to the motorcycles handlebar 3. The right hand side of the handlebar 3 uses the throttle rotor 1 to attach to, which is retained as part of the motorcycles throttle assemble, and therefore fixed securely. The left hand side features a clamp in place of the throttle rotor 1, which effectively replaces the throttle assembly as the fixed anchorage point, the grip attaching in the same way.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2008Publication date: October 23, 2008Inventor: William Packer
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Patent number: 7430847Abstract: A dual lever steering control mechanism for a zero turning radius mower includes left and right steering levers that are independently pivotable fore and aft between reverse, neutral and forward positions. Steering lever grips are attached to and project from the steering levers. Each steering lever grip has a mounting surface with an electrical switch on the mounting surface, and a protective structure extending from the mounting surface.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2007Date of Patent: October 7, 2008Assignee: Deere & CompanyInventors: Brad Allen Hoffman, Ashley Trent Moorehead, Kevin Patrick Lund
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Publication number: 20080196540Abstract: A handlebar grip for a transportation vehicle includes a grip body having a body portion and an annular flange provided on one end of the body portion, a tightening member mounted on the outer surface of the annular flange, a locating ring mounted on the outer surface of the annular flange in such a way that the tightening member is placed in between the locating ring and the annular flange, and a fastener inserted into a through hole of the locating ring. When the fastener is fastened up, one end of the fastener leans against the outer surface of the tightening member such that the annular flange of the grip body is pressed by the tightening member to be radially inwardly deformed and compressed against the periphery of a handlebar of the transportation vehicle. Thus, the handlebar grip is firmly fixed to the handlebar of the transportation vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2007Publication date: August 21, 2008Applicant: International Bicycle Products Corp.Inventor: Kuo-Lin Wu
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Publication number: 20080173126Abstract: A motorcycle handlebar grip cover comprises a pair of mating hemicylindrical cover members. Each cover member is comprised of a first cavity portion configured to cover a grip portion of a motorcycle handlebar grip, and a second cavity portion configured to cover a flange of the motorcycle grip. The cover members connect to one another when the inner surface of each cover member engages the outer surface of the grip.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2008Publication date: July 24, 2008Inventor: Kenneth E. Madden
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Publication number: 20080156139Abstract: A grip for a handlebar of a bicycle includes a rigid plastic inner shell, a soft plastic outer shell, two metallic clamps, and two locking bolts. Thus, when the metallic clamps are tightened by the locking bolts, the inner face of each of the metallic clamps presses the outer surface of the metallic handlebar completely to increase the contact area and to increase the friction, so that the grip is fixed on the metallic handlebar solidly and exactly.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2007Publication date: July 3, 2008Applicant: BIKEFORCE INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD.Inventor: Ching-Chuan Lai
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Publication number: 20080116188Abstract: A grip member with an electric heater, in which the surface of a core body when a heater is installed is flat. A metal conductive plate, such as a SUS plate with a thickness of about 30 ?m formed in a belt-like shape, is spirally embedded along a flat groove section provided in a core body, the surface of the core body is made flat, and the metal conductive plate is fixed at both ends to the core body. An electric current is passed through the metal conductive plate to cause it to generate heat.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2005Publication date: May 22, 2008Inventors: Yuichi Fukuda, Michiyasu Watanabe, Kouzo Sasaki, Satoru Fujiwara
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Patent number: 7347121Abstract: A grip includes a first body member and a second body member. The first body member has a tubular body with an inner surface and an outer surface. The inner surface of the tubular body includes a groove having a bottom wall with a plurality of openings. The second body member has an outer portion, a connecting portion and an inner portion. The outer portion of the second body member is located on the outer surface of the tubular body for forming a shock absorbent layer thereon. The inner portion of the second body member is received in the groove of the first body member for forming an antislip layer on the inner surface of the tubular body. The connecting portion is fitted in the opening of the tubular body.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2005Date of Patent: March 25, 2008Assignee: International Bicycle Products CorporationInventor: Guang-Huei Wu
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Patent number: 7334499Abstract: A grip for the handlebar of a bicycle includes an inner tube provided with at least one mounting face and at least one protruding block, at least one flexible clamping member mounted on the mounting face of the inner tube and having two distal ends rested on the protruding block of the inner tube, and at least one locking bolt extended through one distal end of the clamping member and the protruding block and locked in the other distal end of the clamping member to compress the clamping member radially and inwardly. Thus, the metallic handlebar is clamped by the metallic clamping member so that the grip is clamped on the handlebar rigidly and stably, thereby preventing the grip from slipping from the handlebar.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2006Date of Patent: February 26, 2008Assignee: Bikeforce International Co., Ltd.Inventor: Ching-Chuan Lai
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Publication number: 20070295150Abstract: A grip for the handlebar of a bicycle includes an inner tube provided with at least one mounting face and at least one protruding block, at least one flexible clamping member mounted on the mounting face of the inner tube and having two distal ends rested on the protruding block of the inner tube, and at least one locking bolt extended through one distal end of the clamping member and the protruding block and locked in the other distal end of the clamping member to compress the clamping member radially and inwardly. Thus, the metallic handlebar is clamped by the metallic clamping member so that the grip is clamped on the handlebar rigidly and stably, thereby preventing the grip from slipping from the handlebar.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2006Publication date: December 27, 2007Applicant: Bikeforce International Co., Ltd.Inventor: Ching-Chuan Lai
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Patent number: 7291814Abstract: A grip heater control apparatus (7) capable of increasing the opportunities to enable a heater (2) to warm a grip (1) while suppressing a voltage drop of a battery (10), the grip heater control apparatus comprising a heater (2) for generating heat by means of electric power supplied from the battery (10), the heater being provided in a grip (1) of a steering handle of a vehicle having a generator (9) for generating electricity interlocking with the rotation of an engine as a propulsive source and the battery (10) charged by the generator (9), and a heater control unit for controlling the electric energy supplied to the heater (2) from the battery (10), wherein a revolutions detecting unit is provided for detecting the number of revolutions of the engine or the generator (9) and the heater control unit includes a unit for determining an upper limit on the upper limit electric energy supplied to the heater (2) depending on the detected number of revolutions.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2005Date of Patent: November 6, 2007Assignees: Honda Access Corp., Mitsubishi Cable Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Yasuo Oishi, Katsuya Okamoto
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Publication number: 20070221644Abstract: A heating assembly used for providing heat to the hands of a person using equipment with handlebars. The heating assembly is installed internal to the handlebars and provides heat to the handlebar grips normally installed on equipment of this type. This system works with existing grips, i.e. special heated grip systems are not required. The current invention is thus usable with a wider variety of handlebar grip devices currently used on motorcycles, snowmobiles, snow blowers and other outdoor devices utilizing handlebars.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2007Publication date: September 27, 2007Inventors: Charles Jacob Gifford, Joseph Roger Plessel, Roland Benjamin Knapton
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Patent number: 7213485Abstract: A bicycle assistive handlebar structure installed at the anterior extent of a front fork stem, stem clamp mount that serves as a means of conjoinment. The stem clamp mount consists of a concave section and a threaded hole that provides for the fastening of bolts inserted via four through-holes. Furthermore, a vertical coupling passage is disposed through the installation crown, thereby providing for the horizontal arrangement of a handlebar in a connective mounting shank. The two sides of a transverse rod provides for the fitting into position of insertion sleeves, and an elongated hole provides for the stationary seating into the connective mounting shank elongated hole. Radial splines are respectively fabricated along the outer sides of the joint mount and the inner sides of an assistive handlebar. As such, the present invention provides the rider variable adjustment operation over upper and lower height, forward and backward distance, and rotative direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2005Date of Patent: May 8, 2007Inventor: Yuan-Hsin Huang
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Patent number: 7195567Abstract: A grip includes a transparent polymeric body having an inner surface and an outer surface and a design formed along the inner surface. The grip is formed by forming a transparent polymeric body shaped and dimensioned for attachment to an article and for gripping by an individual and creating a channel or group of channels in a manner forming a design along the inner surface of the polymeric body.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2005Date of Patent: March 27, 2007Inventor: Clive S. Lu
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Patent number: 7174639Abstract: A vegetation cutting machine has a tubular operation rod, a motor mounted to an end of the operation rod, a drive shaft extending through the operation rod and driven by the motor, a cutting tool provided at a distal end of the operation rod to undergo rotation with the drive shaft, a handle mounted on the operation rod, and a pair of handgrips provided on distal ends of the handle. Each of a pair of fastener members traverses the handle and a respective one of the handgrips for fixedly mounting the respective handgrip to the handle at a point located substantially at a center of gravity of a sum of a mass of the respective handgrip and a mass of a portion of the handle extending between the fixing point and a respective one of the distal ends of the handle, such that the fastener members of the respective handgrips are located at positions of the handle at which vibrations transmitted to the handle from the motor through the operation rod are minimized.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2005Date of Patent: February 13, 2007Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Makoto Warashina, Hiroaki Uchitani, Hideshi Sasaki
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Patent number: 7044020Abstract: A motorcycle handlebar hand grip has a hollow cylindrical body with a first, open end and an opposing, second end, which may be open or closed, and an annular flange projecting radially outwards at the first, open end. In order to prolong its useful life as regards wear by a rider's hand, and also improve comfort and vibration damping, the body has an external surface which is formed with projections and which tapers from adjacent the flange to adjacent the second end. The taper is achieved by the projections progressively decreasing in height from adjacent the flange to adjacent the second end. The base area of the respective projections may also progressively decrease in size from adjacent the flange to adjacent the second end.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2003Date of Patent: May 16, 2006Assignee: Renthal LimitedInventor: Henry Rosenthal
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Patent number: 7028581Abstract: The present invention consists of a new and unique ergonomic handgrip with separate ulnar and radial support means that divides the pressure between the heel of the hand and the thumb area along with removing the pressure in the central palmer crease at the joining of the wrist. This is accomplished by using a dog-bone shape with an ulnar or heel support area having a cavity conforming to the shape of the heel of the hand and a radial or thumb support with a cavity conforming to the shape of the thumb of the hand where it joins the wrist. The ulnar or heel support and the radial or thumb support are angled so as to keep the wrist in a neutral position in relation to the device and are divided by a median groove that blends up into the gripping area of the device. The median groove maintains a space between the device and the carpel tunnel or central palmer area of the hand.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2002Date of Patent: April 18, 2006Inventors: Thomas D. Williams, Steven M. Gootter
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Patent number: 7013751Abstract: A bicycle shift control device includes a fixed member and a rotatable member rotatably coupled to the fixed member for rotation around a handlebar between at least two shift positions. The fixed member is adapted to be coupled to the handlebar adjacent a hand gripping area of the handlebar. The rotatable member has inner and outer axial ends with a tubular outer actuating surface extending between the inner and outer ends and around a center longitudinal axis of the hand gripping area. The actuating surface is configured to define a tubular hand grip with a finger operating projection extending outwardly relative to the tubular hand grip. The actuating surface includes a first portion constructed of a first material and a second portion constructed of a second material more rigid than the first material. The second portion has the finger operating projection.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2003Date of Patent: March 21, 2006Assignee: Shimano Inc.Inventors: Alexander Hilsky, Masao Kojima
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Patent number: 7010997Abstract: A two-wheeler or motorcycle grip has an electric heating element whose supply line is arranged or wound in a spiral shape in the area of the motorcycle grip. The winding axis of the supply line is substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the motorcycle grip. When the motorcycle grip is rotated, the supply line can deform similarly to a torsion spring in the rotating or circumferential direction, which is connected with only a very slight mechanical stressing of the line element.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2002Date of Patent: March 14, 2006Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AGInventor: Stanislav Dzurnak
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Patent number: 7008687Abstract: A protective strap for spirally winding around a handle includes a main body and a distinctive strap. The main body is an elongated strap member having two lateral edges, two end edges, a top side and a bottom side. The two lateral edges of the main body are respectively longer in length than the two end edges of the main body. The distinctive strap is disposed on the top side of the main body, having two lateral fringes and two end fringes shorter in length than the two lateral fringes. The distinctive strap is parallel to one of the lateral edges of the main body and has a width between the two lateral fringes thereof smaller than that between two lateral edges of the main body.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2003Date of Patent: March 7, 2006Inventor: Jack Wang
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Patent number: 7000498Abstract: An adjustable extension lever to be attached to a control lever of a vehicle such as an all-terrain vehicle, snowmobile, motorcycle or personal watercraft to extend the lever surface available to be contacted during control of the vehicle and including a bendable lever extension that will bend under a bending force greater than the operating force required to operate the vehicle control lever to insure a comfortably located thumb and/or palm engagement surface on an extender connected to and pivot able with the control lever.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2003Date of Patent: February 21, 2006Assignee: Stearns Inc.Inventors: Dennis Hancock, Jeffrey D Hancock
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Patent number: 6964214Abstract: A handlebar grip for bicycle includes a grip member having a hard base and a soft outer layer. The hard base has a straight tubular body and an upright end portion formed integral with the straight tubular body. The soft outer layer is fixedly fastened to and covered on the surface of the hard base.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2003Date of Patent: November 15, 2005Assignee: International Bicycle Products CorporationInventor: Kuang-Hui Wu
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Patent number: 6923089Abstract: A grip includes a tubular grip body for mounting a vehicle handlebar. A locating member is fastened to one end of the grip body and partially inserted into the vehicle handlebar. A tightening up member is inserted into the inside of the vehicle handlebar. A nut is fastened to the tightening up member. A screw is mounted in the locating member and threaded into the nut in the tightening up member and adapted to drive the nut and the tightening up member toward the locating member and to radially force the tightening up member against the inside wall of the vehicle handlebar when fastened up.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2003Date of Patent: August 2, 2005Assignee: International Bicycle Products CorporationInventor: Kuang-Hui Wu
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Patent number: 6920805Abstract: A throttle-opening detecting apparatus has a case mounted on a handle bar of a vehicle, a throttle grip mounted on a leading end side of the handle bar from the case so as to be rotatable with respect to the handle bar, a detect member incorporated in the case and rotatable in linking with the throttle grip, a throttle-opening sensor for detecting the rotation angle of the detect member, and a rotative direction changing unit for rotating the detect member in a direction substantially perpendicular to the rotative direction of the throttle grip, so as to provide a throttle-opening detecting apparatus which can decrease the thickness-direction dimension of the case to thereby reduce the size of the throttle-opening detecting apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2003Date of Patent: July 26, 2005Assignees: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha, Asahi Denso Co., Ltd.Inventors: Haruhiko Samoto, Norio Hayashi, Michiyuki Suzuki, Masahiro Kawamura
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Patent number: 6901666Abstract: A bush cutting machine including a prime mover, a cutter and a handle fixed to an operation rod. The handle has left and right end portions carrying grips. Each grip is mounted at a center of gravity of a sum of a mass of a handle portion between a fixed point and a distal end of the handle and a mass of the grip.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2002Date of Patent: June 7, 2005Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Makoto Warashina, Hiroaki Uchitani, Hideshi Sasaki
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Patent number: 6903312Abstract: A grip heater control apparatus has a heater provided in a left grip of a steering handle of a motorcycle or the like, a heater control unit mounted on a left cowling of the motorcycle, a cover disposed on an upper end of a heater control unit and supporting thereon a plurality of LEDs and up and down switches, a controller disposed in the heater control unit for controlling the amount of electricity supplied from a battery, and a branch cable interconnecting the controller and the heater. The temperature of the heater is adjusted by the number of times that buttons of the up and down switches are pressed.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2003Date of Patent: June 7, 2005Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Honda Access, Shindengen Electric Manufacturing Company LimitedInventors: Ryoichi Miura, Masaki Kakuta, Tokuzo Tojo
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Patent number: 6858286Abstract: In a soft grip element for hand-operated electric machine tools which have a machine housing (10) with a molded-on or attached handle, which has a stiff shell body (18) which is detachably placed machine housing (10) and/or the handle (11), and a coating (19) of soft elastic material which covers the shell body, to form an air reservoir under the surface of the user's hand, in the free surface of the coating (19) a host of recesses (20) is made.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2000Date of Patent: February 22, 2005Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Robert Simm, Urs Ruepp, Mihail Stefanopulos
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Patent number: 6855651Abstract: A cover tape for winding on a grip of a device comprising an elongated cloth layer and an elastic layer. The cloth layer has a first surface and a second surface. The elastic layer is made of silicone gel and bonded to the first surface of the cloth layer for enabling the second surface of the cloth layer to be exposed to the outside when spirally winding the cover tape round the grip with the elastic layer adhered to the periphery of the grip.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2001Date of Patent: February 15, 2005Inventor: Tsai-Yun Yu
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Patent number: 6854163Abstract: A releasably attachable grip comprises a body having a first side and a second side opposite the first side. The grip also comprises a light emitter integral with the first side of the body. The grip also comprises a stretchable material having a top surface and a bottom surface opposite the top surface. The top surface is adhered to the second side of the body. The grip also comprises a releasable adhesive disposed on the bottom surface of the stretchable material. The releasable adhesive is configured to adhere to the outer surface.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2002Date of Patent: February 15, 2005Inventor: Bruce M. Ruana
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Patent number: 6840135Abstract: A safety handlebar is described in which telescopic handgrips are provided at the two opposing outer ends of the tubular frame of the handlebar. In each embodiment described, a shaft and an outer cover are locked together for telescopic movement on each tubular outer end of the handlebar frame. A bias member in the form of a coil spring biases the grip portion outward away from the tubular ends of the frame. A dampening mechanism is provided to retard the return of the grips to their original position after they have telescoped inward after impacting with the user. A hydraulic dampening system employing grease and an pneumatic system employing air are described.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2000Date of Patent: January 11, 2005Assignee: The Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaInventors: Jeremy Mark Cohen, Luis Otoya, Kristy Bittenbender Arbogast, Flaura Koplin Winston
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Patent number: 6834565Abstract: The present invention relates to a retrofit safety handlebar. A handlebar is modified to include a threaded portion on an exterior end thereof. The handlebar can be a conventional handlebar. The retrofit safety handlebar includes a threaded portion on an interior thereof. The retrofit safety handlebar can be threaded to the conventional handlebar. A bias member is associated with a shaft of the retrofit safety handlebar for biasing the shaft away from a frame. A dampener is associated with the shaft so as to dampen movement of the shaft toward the frame after impact of the retrofit safety handlebar with a rider. For example, the frame can be a bicycle frame or a frame for other forms of personal transportation and toys that are pushed or ridden.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2002Date of Patent: December 28, 2004Assignee: The Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaInventors: Jeremy Mark Cohen, Luis Otoya, Kristy Bittenbender Arbogast, Flaura Koplin Winston
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Publication number: 20040216550Abstract: An electronic throttle device 10 for motorcycles is mounted on a handlebar. A twist grip 16 may be rotated from an idle position to the full-throttle position. A rotation-position sensor 104 with a rotor unit and a stator unit is either mounted along the rotation axis of the twist-throttle control element 16 or outside of it. In the former case, an intermediary coupling unit 50 is provided that is fixed both to the twist-throttle control element 16 and to the rotor unit 46, 74 to rotate with them. In the latter case, an engagement element 92 is provided for coupling with a first toothed area 94 that engages with a toothed element 96 with a second toothed area 98. A Hall-effect rotation sensor or inductive rotation sensor is preferably used as a rotation-position sensor, whereby in the former case a rotor unit 46, 106 may be moved across from a stator unit 44, 108 with two stator partial elements 58a, 58b.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2004Publication date: November 4, 2004Inventors: Klaus Fallak, Carmelo Leone
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Patent number: 6793258Abstract: A device and method for gripping a handrail or other object having a top and a bottom surface. The device includes a handle for gripping by a user. A fixed member is coupled to the handle for engaging one of the top and bottom surfaces of the handrail, and a movable member is movably coupled to the handle for engaging the other of the top and bottom surfaces of the handrail. An actuator coupled to the handle controls the movement of the movable member, the actuator allowing for repositioning and locking of the device with respect to the handrail. When the device is locked with respect to the handrail the fixed member and movable member engage the top and bottom surfaces of the handrail such that a force tangential to the handrail can be applied to the handle without the device sliding on the handrail.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2002Date of Patent: September 21, 2004Assignee: DEKA Products Limited PartnershipInventor: Larry B. Gray
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Publication number: 20040169170Abstract: A cable puller has on its actuating lever an elongated grip with an ergonomically friendly shape that directs a user to use both hands placed side by side on the grip when manipulating the lever.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2003Publication date: September 2, 2004Inventor: Hector R. Hernandez
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Patent number: RE41098Abstract: A vehicle handlebar grip for use in a bicycle or motorcycle is disclosed to include a plastic grip body peripherally covered with a flexible covering, the grip body having an axially extended mounting hole for mounting onto the vehicle handlebar, two annular end grooves at two ends, and two radial through holes in communication with the annular end grooves, two locating rings respectively fitted into the end grooves of the grip body, the locating rings each having a radial screw hole, and two tightening up screws respectively inserted through the through holes of the grip body and threaded into the screw holes of the locating rings to fix the locating rings and the grip body to the vehicle's handlebar.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2006Date of Patent: February 9, 2010Inventor: Teal-Yun Yu