US 12,351,269 B2
Bicycle pedal with elastomeric surface
Steven Andrew Park, Paris (CA); and Jacobus Josef Pittens, Waterdown (CA)
Assigned to Nine Point Eight Inc., Ancaster (CA)
Filed by Nine Point Eight Inc., Ancaster (CA)
Filed on May 30, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/203,247.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/346,871, filed on May 29, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0382488 A1, Nov. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. B62M 3/08 (2006.01); A43B 5/14 (2006.01)
CPC B62M 3/08 (2013.01) [A43B 5/14 (2013.01); B62M 3/086 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A bicycle pedal, comprising:
a main pedal body adapted to rotatably receive an axle;
the main pedal body defining two opposed pedal platform bases;
wherein a single respective layer of a low-rebound elastomeric material is disposed on each of the opposed pedal platform bases to form only one single continuous pedal platform surface for each one of the opposed pedal platform bases;
wherein each pedal platform surface is concave along a travel axis of the pedal;
wherein for each one of the opposed pedal platform bases, the main pedal body defines a delamination shield that extends beyond the respective pedal platform base to shield a junction between a vanguard inferior edge of the respective layer of low-rebound elastomeric material and the respective pedal platform base;
each delamination shield is formed monolithically as part of the main pedal body and comprises a solid unperforated wall of material that covers all of the respective junction between the vanguard inferior edge and the pedal platform base; and
a vanguard edge of each delamination shield is sloped or chamfered obliquely relative to the travel axis of the pedal.