US 12,330,449 B2
Aerodynamic bicycle rim and wheel
Steven Arthur Hed, North Oaks, MN (US); and Christopher Andrew Edin, Mahtomedi, MN (US)
Assigned to HED CYCLING PRODUCTS, INC., Roseville, MN (US)
Filed by Hed Cycling Products, Inc., Roseville, MN (US)
Filed on Oct. 27, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/975,550.
Application 17/975,550 is a continuation of application No. 17/133,287, filed on Dec. 23, 2020, granted, now 11,807,036.
Application 17/133,287 is a continuation of application No. 16/184,712, filed on Nov. 8, 2018, granted, now 10,875,356, issued on Dec. 29, 2020.
Application 16/184,712 is a continuation of application No. 15/276,199, filed on Sep. 26, 2016, granted, now 10,137,728, issued on Nov. 27, 2018.
Application 15/276,199 is a continuation of application No. 14/520,207, filed on Oct. 21, 2014, granted, now 9,463,666, issued on Oct. 11, 2016.
Application 14/520,207 is a continuation of application No. 12/553,026, filed on Sep. 2, 2009, granted, now 8,888,195, issued on Nov. 18, 2014.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/185,489, filed on Jun. 9, 2009.
Prior Publication US 2023/0049284 A1, Feb. 16, 2023
Int. Cl. B60B 21/02 (2006.01); B60B 21/10 (2006.01); B60B 1/00 (2006.01); B60B 3/00 (2006.01)
CPC B60B 21/025 (2013.01) [B60B 21/02 (2013.01); B60B 21/10 (2013.01); B60B 21/104 (2013.01); B60B 1/003 (2013.01); B60B 3/00 (2013.01); B60B 2900/1216 (2013.01); B60B 2900/50 (2013.01); B60Y 2200/13 (2013.01); B60Y 2200/134 (2013.01); Y02T 10/88 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An aerodynamic bicycle rim comprising:
a circumferential outer portion comprising a circumferential outer surface, the circumferential outer portion defining a circumferential channel shaped to provide a tire bed, the circumferential outer portion adapted to seat a bicycle tire in the tire bed;
a nose; and
a set of sidewalls, each sidewall extending radially from the nose of the aerodynamic bicycle rim to a corresponding transition to the circumferential outer surface to form a rim body having a maximum rim body width at a widest part of the rim body that is greater than a maximum width of the bicycle tire and a rim body depth that is at least one and one half times greater than the maximum width of the bicycle tire, each sidewall and corresponding transition forming a continuous outer surface around the rim body from the circumferential outer surface to the nose, the continuous outer surface of each sidewall comprising an outside curve from the nose to a location radially outward from the widest part of the rim body;
wherein the maximum rim body width occurs radially closer to a radially outermost edge of the rim body than to a centerline of the rim body and overlaps the circumferential channel; and
wherein the aerodynamic bicycle rim is operable to seat the bicycle tire such that when the bicycle tire is seated there is a tangent line tangent to the bicycle tire and tangent to a sidewall of the set of sidewalls at the widest part of the rim body or radially outward of the widest part of the rim body and that has a tangent angle of less than 17 degrees.