Patents by Inventor Silvio Meusel

Silvio Meusel 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).

  • Hand lever fixture for handlebar-controlled vehicles, in particular motorcycles
    Patent number: 7549356
    Abstract: A hand lever fixture has a support body which can be attached to a handlebar, on which support body a hand lever and an over-center spring are pivotably mounted, said hand lever being effectively connected to a master cylinder and said over-center spring being effectively connected to the hand lever, which over-center spring, when the hand lever is in a position between a dead center position and an end position, generates a lever moment on the hand lever, said lever moment acting in the direction of the end position. The hand lever is split into a main lever which can be acted upon manually and an auxiliary lever pivotably mounted on the support body, at the end of which auxiliary lever the over-center spring is articulated while an auxiliary force resulting from the over-center spring lever moment can be transmitted to the master cylinder via its other end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2009
    Assignee: FTE automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Leuschke, Holger Böhme, Silvio Meusel
  • Hand lever fixture for handlebar-controlled vehicles, in particular motorcycles
    Publication number: 20060185465
    Abstract: A hand lever fixture has a support body which can be attached to a handlebar, on which support body a hand lever and an over-center spring are pivotably mounted, said hand lever being effectively connected to a master cylinder and said over-center spring being effectively connected to the hand lever, which over-center spring, when the hand lever is in a position between a dead center position and an end position, generates a lever moment on the hand lever, said lever moment acting in the direction of the end position. The hand lever is split into a main lever which can be acted upon manually and an auxiliary lever pivotably mounted on the support body, at the end of which auxiliary lever the over-center spring is articulated while an auxiliary force resulting from the over-center spring lever moment can be transmitted to the master cylinder via its other end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2005
    Publication date: August 24, 2006
    Inventors: Rainer Leuschke, Holger Bohme, Silvio Meusel