Rack for both bicycle and kick scooter

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12358582-B2
Application number	US-202018030874-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 17, 2020
Priority date	Oct 8, 2020
Publication date	Jul 15, 2025
Grant date	Jul 15, 2025

Abstract

Provided is a rack for a bicycle or a kick scooter that is a single device allowing either of a bicycle or a kick scooter to be parked. The rack includes a pair of support members formed to extend upward from the ground and disposed to be parallel with and spaced apart from each other, a rotating shaft coupled to the support members, a parking member interposed between the pair of support members and axially coupled to the rotating shaft so as to be rotatable, and a protruding member disposed to be spaced apart from a front of the parking member that faces the bicycle or the kick scooter and having both ends bent toward the parking member to be fixed to the parking member.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A rack for a bicycle or a kick scooter, the rack comprising:
a pair of support members formed to extend upward from the ground and disposed to be parallel with and spaced apart from each other;
a rotating shaft coupled to the support members;
a parking member interposed between the pair of support members and axially coupled to the rotating shaft so as to be rotatable and having an integral U-shaped protruding member; and
disposed to be spaced apart from a front of the parking member that faces the bicycle or the kick scooter and having both ends bent toward the parking member and fixed to the parking member,
wherein a center of mass of the parking member is located between the rotating shaft and the protruding member, and
wherein position of the rotating shaft is calculated based on weight of the parking member and position of the center of mass of the parking member.

2. The rack of claim 1 , further comprising an elastic member configured to apply an elastic force to the parking member to allow the parking member to move to a preset reference position.

3. The rack of claim 2 , wherein the elastic member has elasticity that allows the parking member to rotate to a preset parking position in a case in which the bicycle is parked in the parking member.

4. The rack of claim 2 , wherein the elastic member provides an elastic force to the parking member so that the parking member rotates to the reference position at which the parking member is tilted toward the front from a central axis perpendicular to the ground.

5. The rack of claim 4 , wherein the parking member maintains a tilt of 7° toward the front from the central axis due to the elastic member.

6. The rack of claim 1 , further comprising a stopper fixed to the rotating shaft to limit a radius of rotation of the parking member.

7. The rack of claim 1 , wherein the parking member is formed to have a length in a range of 450 mm to 800 mm.

Assignees

• Iucf Hyu Erica Campus

Inventors

• Choi Joon-Myung
• Gwak Soung-Bin
• Kwon Min-Jung

Classifications

• B62H2700/00

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• H02S20/00

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• Y02E10/52

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• B60L53/51

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• B62K3/002

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