Patents Assigned to Cannondale Bicycle Corporation
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Patent number: 8152189Abstract: A bicycle frame includes a front section and a rear section. The front section includes a front frame portion having a front coupling configured to receive a front wheel support member and to allow rotation between the front coupling and the front wheel support member, the front frame portion defining a central vertical plane of the frame. The rear section includes a drive link case having an upper tube, a lower tube, a rear hub housing, and a front sprocket housing all integrally arranged with each other to form a rigid drive link case having an opening disposed between the upper and lower tubes, the drive link case being connected to the front frame portion via the front sprocket housing. The drive link case is disposed eccentric to the central vertical plane and is cantilevered rearward from the front sprocket housing. The front frame portion extends forward from the front sprocket housing.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2008Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: Cannondale Bicycle CorporationInventors: Christopher Philip Dodman, Torgny Fjeldskaar
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Patent number: 8121757Abstract: A bicycle is disclosed having a control system with a user interface and an active suspension system. The control system includes a one or more sensors arranged to measure and transmit a signal indicative of the terrain over which the bicycle is being ridden. The active suspension system includes a valve box that is fluidly coupled to each chamber of the lower cylinder. An orifice in the valve box is changed in size in response to a signal from a sensor associated with the front wheel that changes the response of the suspension system due to changing terrain conditions. The user interface includes a selection device mounted to the handlebars that allows the user to change parameters of the active suspension system during operation of the bicycle.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2008Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignee: Cannondale Bicycle CorporationInventors: Stanley Song, Stephen R. Extance
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Patent number: 7762571Abstract: A bottom bracket assembly for use on a bicycle, the assembly provided as a split bracket assembly with an upper portion formed integrally with the bicycle frame and a lower portion detachably connectable to the upper portion, the lower portion completely removable from the upper portion. The bottom bracket assembly provided to capture a crank shaft therein with associated bearings to facilitate the rotation of the crank shaft assembly.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2007Date of Patent: July 27, 2010Assignee: Cannondale Bicycle CorporationInventors: Christopher P. Dodman, Curtis Wayne Detwiler
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Publication number: 20100010709Abstract: A bicycle is disclosed having a control system with a user interface and an active suspension system. The control system includes a one or more sensors arranged to measure and transmit a signal indicative of the terrain over which the bicycle is being ridden. The active suspension system includes a valve box that is fluidly coupled to each chamber of the lower cylinder. An orifice in the valve box is changed in size in response to a signal from a sensor associated with the front wheel that changes the response of the suspension system due to changing terrain conditions. The user interface includes a selection device mounted to the handlebars that allows the user to change parameters of the active suspension system during operation of the bicycle.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2009Publication date: January 14, 2010Applicant: CANNONDALE BICYCLE CORPORATIONInventor: Stanley Song
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Publication number: 20090192673Abstract: A bicycle is disclosed having a control system with a user interface and an active suspension system. The control system includes a one or more sensors arranged to measure and transmit a signal indicative of the terrain over which the bicycle is being ridden. The active suspension system includes a valve box that is fluidly coupled to each chamber of the lower cylinder. An orifice in the valve box is changed in size in response to a signal from a sensor associated with the front wheel that changes the response of the suspension system due to changing terrain conditions. The user interface includes a selection device mounted to the handlebars that allows the user to change parameters of the active suspension system during operation of the bicycle.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2008Publication date: July 30, 2009Applicant: CANNONDALE BICYCLE CORPORATIONInventors: Stanley Song, Stephen R. Extance
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Publication number: 20090058038Abstract: A bicycle frame includes a front section and a rear section. The front section includes a front frame portion having a front coupling configured to receive a front wheel support member and to allow rotation between the front coupling and the front wheel support member, the front frame portion defining a central vertical plane of the frame. The rear section includes a drive link case having an upper tube, a lower tube, a rear hub housing, and a front sprocket housing all integrally arranged with each other to form a rigid drive link case having an opening disposed between the upper and lower tubes, the drive link case being connected to the front frame portion via the front sprocket housing. The drive link case is disposed eccentric to the central vertical plane and is cantilevered rearward from the front sprocket housing. The front frame portion extends forward from the front sprocket housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2008Publication date: March 5, 2009Applicant: CANNONDALE BICYCLE CORPORATIONInventors: Christopher Philip Dodman, Torgny Fjeldskaar
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Patent number: 7217037Abstract: An adjustable eccentric bracket assembly for a bicycle provided with at least two wedge surfaces in a body member designed to co-act with at least one wedge member having a wedge surface, where upon axial displacement of the wedge member relative to the body member, the wedge member is laterally displaced so as to selectively engage with an inner surface of a shell in which the body member is received.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2005Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Cannondale Bicycle CorporationInventors: Chris Dodman, James Gardner, Curt Davis
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Publication number: 20070079930Abstract: A sizable reduced weight bicycle frame and method for making such incorporating tubes of a composite material, the method providing for flexibility and full customization of the bicycle frame with a minimum amount of tooling, which tooling securely holds lugs of the bicycle frame at selected customized positions relative to the tooling during the molding process.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2006Publication date: April 12, 2007Applicant: CANNONDALE BICYCLE CORPORATIONInventor: Michael Parkin
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Patent number: D605091Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2008Date of Patent: December 1, 2009Assignee: Cannondale Bicycle CorporationInventors: Torgny Fjeldskaar, Christopher Philip Dodman