US 11,897,575 B2
Hydraulic bicycle control device
Chihui Su, Taichung (TW); and Yen-Pang Liu, Taichung (TW)
Assigned to SRAM, LLC, Chicago, IL (US)
Filed by SRAM, LLC, Chicago, IL (US)
Filed on Sep. 14, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/020,354.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/900,975, filed on Sep. 16, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0078671 A1, Mar. 18, 2021
Int. Cl. B62L 3/02 (2006.01)
CPC B62L 3/023 (2013.01) 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A control device adapted to be mounted to a bicycle handlebar, comprising:
a housing formed of a plastic and sized and shaped to be grasped by a user's hand, the housing including a handlebar mounting portion at an end thereof that is configured to be mounted to the bicycle handlebar;
a brake lever pivotably connected to the housing at a pivot of the housing;
a hydraulic seat disposed within the housing at another end of the housing that is distal from the handlebar mounting portion, the hydraulic seat being formed of a metal and defining a piston chamber and a hydraulic reservoir therein that are in fluid communication with each other; and
a piston movably mounted to the piston chamber in the hydraulic seat, and operably connected to the brake lever;
wherein the plastic of the housing is molded around and adhered to the hydraulic seat through the molding.