Patents by Inventor Nicholas OMLIN

Nicholas OMLIN has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240239137
    Abstract: A bicycle hub with a hub axle, a hub shell, a rotor and a freewheel device, the hub shell rotates with a rotor-side hub bearing, and an outer hub bearing. The rotor rotates with a hub-side rotor bearing disposed closer to the hub shell and an outer rotor bearing further from the hub shell. The freewheel device includes hub-side and rotor-side toothed disk devices, each toothed and biased for engagement with one another. The toothing of the hub-side toothed disk device is axially oriented to the rotor. The rotor-side toothed disk device is accommodated radially within the rotor and is coupled to move with the rotor. The inner diameter of the rotor-side toothed disk device is larger than that of the hub-side rotor bearing. The biasing device includes a coil spring with a winding wire, extending around a spring axis and whose winding ends are disposed diagonally opposite one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2024
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Inventors: Stefan SPAHR, Nicholas OMLIN, Thomas GASSER
  • Publication number: 20240149616
    Abstract: A hub for bicycles with a hub axle, a hub shell, a rotor and a freewheel device, wherein the hub shell rotates with a rotor-side hub bearing, and an outer hub bearing. The rotor rotates with a hub-side rotor bearing disposed closer to the hub shell and an outer rotor bearing further from the hub shell. The freewheel device includes hub-side and rotor-side toothed disk devices, each including an end toothing for engagement with one another, and biased to an engagement position (E). The end toothing of the hub-side toothed disk device is axially oriented to the rotor. The rotor-side toothed disk device is accommodated radially within the rotor and by an outer radial toothing, is coupled with an inner radial rotor toothing, to move with the rotor. The inner diameter of the rotor-side toothed disk device is larger than that of the hub-side rotor bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Stefan SPAHR, Nicholas OMLIN
  • Publication number: 20240149614
    Abstract: A bicycle hub with a rotor, including a rotor body, extending from an inner end toward an outer end, wherein the rotor body is rotatably supported on the hub axle with a hub-side rotor bearing and an opposite, outer rotor bearing. The rotor includes a rotor-side toothed disk device coupled with the rotor body, to fixedly, drivingly couple the rotor body with a hub shell, and to decouple from a hub shell when freewheeling. The rotor-side toothed disk device includes an end toothing engaging an end toothing coupled with the hub shell. The rotor-side toothed disk device is biased to an engagement position. The rotor body includes a first rotor part and a second rotor part connected with the first rotor part in a drivingly, rotationally fixed manner. One rotor bearing is on one of the rotor parts and the other rotor bearing is on the other rotor part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Stefan SPAHR, Nicholas OMLIN
  • Publication number: 20240149615
    Abstract: A bicycle hub with an axle, a shell, a rotor with a rotor body and a freewheel device with, a hub-side toothed disk device coupled to the hub shell, and a rotor-side toothed disk device interacting therewith and coupled to the rotor body, to drivingly couple the rotor to the hub shell in the driving direction and decouple from one another when freewheeling. The toothed disk devices include an end toothing and are biased to an engagement position. A sprocket accommodation is on the rotor body which includes on the hub-side end an inner radial wall to support a hub-side rotor bearing. On an end face at the hub-side end of the rotor, radially between the inner radial wall and an rotor outer wall, a circumferential accommodation accessible from the end face is configured, so the rotor-side toothed disk device is accommodated in a fixed driving manner and axially movable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Stefan SPAHR, Nicholas OMLIN
  • Publication number: 20240149617
    Abstract: A bicycle hub, including a hub axle, a hub shell, a threaded ring, a rotor, and a freewheel device, wherein the freewheel device comprises a hub-side toothed disk device and an interacting rotor-side toothed disk device, each including an end toothing for engagement with one another, and biased to an engagement position. The threaded ring includes an outer contour with an external thread, and a through hole with an inner contour, wherein the inner contour has a non-round inner contour, which couples, in a rotationally fixed driving manner, with a matching non-round outer coupling contour on the outer periphery of the hub-side toothed disk device. The threaded ring has a depression at the rotor end, so that the external thread on the threaded ring extends toward the rotor axially further than does the inner coupling contour, to widen the external thread of the threaded ring in the rotor direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Martin WALTHERT, Stefan SPAHR, Nicholas OMLIN