Handlebar with Aerofoil Profile and Integrated Flat Mounting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing handlebars are limited to a circular profile, restricting their design flexibility and making it difficult to mount attachments like brake levers without using circular clamps, which limits the shape of the handlebar.
Innovation Solution
A handlebar design featuring a transverse support with a non-circular profile, allowing for a more ergonomic and aerodynamic shape, and incorporating a mounting arrangement that eliminates the need for circular clamps, enabling secure attachment of accessories.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a circular clamp is used to mount attachments to the handlebar, then the attachment can be securely mounted, but the handlebar is restricted to a circular profile which limits design flexibility and aerodynamics
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the circular clamp from the mounting system and replaces it with a flat mounting surface directly integrated into the handlebar. This eliminates the need for the circular clamp component while maintaining secure attachment capability, thereby resolving the contradiction between design flexibility and mounting mechanism complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The mounting surface is merged directly into the handlebar structure itself, eliminating the separate circular clamp component. This integration allows the handlebar to have a non-circular aerodynamic profile while providing a secure flat mounting surface for attachments, resolving the contradiction between design flexibility and mounting complexity.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If a circular clamp is used to mount attachments, then secure mounting is achieved, but aerodynamic drag increases due to the inability to use non-circular profiles
Solution Approach 1:
The circular clamp is extracted from the system and replaced with a flat mounting surface integrated into the handlebar. This allows the handlebar to maintain a non-circular aerodynamic profile, reducing aerodynamic drag, while the flat surface provides simple and secure attachment capability.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of using a circular clamp that conforms to a circular handlebar profile, the patent inverts the approach by providing a flat mounting surface on a non-circular handlebar profile. This inversion allows the handlebar to have an aerodynamic shape while maintaining ease of attachment mounting.
3Ease of operation
If the handlebar has a non-circular profile for better ergonomics and aerodynamics, then user comfort and performance improve, but traditional circular clamps cannot be used for mounting attachments
Solution Approach 1:
The circular clamp is extracted from the mounting system. The patent replaces it with a flat mounting surface directly integrated into the non-circular handlebar profile. This maintains user comfort and aerodynamics while providing attachment compatibility through the flat surface.
Solution Approach 2:
The flat mounting surface serves multiple functions: it provides a secure mounting surface for various attachments, maintains the non-circular aerodynamic profile, and accommodates different attachment types. This universality resolves the contradiction between user comfort and attachment compatibility.
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AI summary
A handlebar for controlling a travelling direction of a vehicle, the handlebar comprising: a transverse support for mounting to a vehicle, the transverse support extending substantially along a first axial direction; a first grippable element extending from a first end of the transverse support, the first grippable element including a free end; wherein the first grippable element comprises an attachment portion configured to receive a mounting arrangement for mounting an attachment to the first grippable element, and wherein the attachment portion has a substantially aerofoil-shaped profile in a plane parallel to a second axial direction, said second axial direction substantially perpendicular to the first axial direction.