Bicycle carrier apparatus for vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9783121-B2
Application number	US-201514816845-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 3, 2015
Priority date	Apr 7, 2015
Publication date	Oct 10, 2017
Grant date	Oct 10, 2017

Abstract

A bicycle carrier apparatus for a vehicle may include a slide carrier configured to slidably move in forward and backward directions on a bumper back beam to be drawn out or accommodated, an extended support installed on the slide carrier to be extended and spread in both side directions and formed to carry a bicycle thereon, and an expandable box seated on the extended support and carried on the slide carrier, to have an accommodation space formed therein, and to be expanded or contracted in a spreading direction of the extended support when the extended support is extended and spread.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A bicycle carrier apparatus for a vehicle comprising: a slide carrier configured to slidably move in forward and backward directions on a bumper back beam to be drawn out of or accommodated inside of the vehicle; a pair of extended supports installed on the slide carrier to be extended and retracted in both side directions and including a fastening structure for securing a bicycle to be carried on the extended supports; and an expandable box having an accommodation space formed therein, the box seated on both extended supports and carried on the slide carrier such that the box is expanded or contracted in the spreading direction of each extended support when that extended support is extended and retracted, respectively.

2. The bicycle carrier apparatus of claim 1 , wherein a guide rail is provided on the bumper back beam to be extended in the forward and backward directions, and
the slide carrier comprises a panel portion and a side rail slidably connected to the guide rail to be drawn out or accommodated along the guide rail.

3. The bicycle carrier apparatus of claim 2 , wherein an extended rail that is extended to cross a side rail is fixed to the slide carrier, and
the extended supports are slidably connected to the extended rail to slidably move in a side direction along the extended rail.

4. The bicycle carrier apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the expandable box is formed to have a wrinkle folding structure to be expanded or contracted.

5. The bicycle carrier apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the expandable box has the accommodation space formed therein, and comprises a housing having an open upper surface and a cover configured to cover the open upper surface of the housing, and
a central portion of the housing and a central portion of the cover have wrinkle folding structures formed with a same width.

6. The bicycle carrier apparatus of claim 5 , wherein a fixing slider, which is extended in a direction in which the wrinkle folding structure is expanded or contracted and is fixed to both ends of the cover, is provided on an upper surface of the cover, and
the fixing slider has a length that is variable in a same direction as the direction in which the cover is expanded or contracted.

7. The bicycle carrier apparatus of claim 6 , wherein the fixing slider comprises:
a slide pipe connected and fixed to a first end of the upper surface of the cover and formed in a hollow pipe shape; and
a slide bar which is slidably inserted into a hollow portion of the slide pipe and is connected and fixed to a second end of the upper surface of the cover.

8. The bicycle carrier apparatus of claim 7 , wherein a fixing bar is rotatably installed on the slide carrier, and
the fixing bar is provided with a clamp mechanism which is connected to the fixing bar and the slide pipe of the fixing slider.

9. The bicycle carrier apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the extended supports are provided with a strap having a first fixed end and configured to fix a wheel of a bicycle and a fixing device for fixing a second end of the strap.

10. The bicycle carrier apparatus of claim 9 , wherein fixing holes are symmetrically formed on a lower end surface of the expandable box, and the expandable box is fixedly positioned on the extended supports in a manner that the strap, which is inserted into the accommodation space of the expandable box through one of the fixing holes, passes through another of the fixing holes and is fixed to the fixing device.

11. The bicycle carrier apparatus of claim 10 , wherein a support bar is provided between the symmetrical fixing holes on the lower end surface of the expandable box, and the strap that is inserted into the fixing hole surrounds the support bar.

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Cha Dong Eun
• Yoon Jin Young
• Lee Seung Mok
• Kim Hyun Gyung

Classifications

• B60R9/065

  Enclosure-type carriers, e.g. trunks · CPC title

• B60R9/06

  at vehicle front or rear {(rear luggage compartments within vehicle extensible externally of the vehicle body B60R5/041)} · CPC title

• B60R9/10 Primary

  for cycles · CPC title