Carrier for a bicycle

US7909213B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Magna Car Top Systems GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Harald Bergerhoff · Hamburg, DE
• Michael Waller · Hamburg, DE
• Gerald Hahn · Schenectady, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 6, 2007
• Grant date: Mar 22, 2011
• Expiry date: Jan 18, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S224/924
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A bicycle carrier for a vehicle includes a support holder for holding a bicycle aligned transversely to a longitudinal direction of a vehicle. A retaining bracket connected to the support holder has a guide holder and retaining bracket sections. The bracket sections are movably connected to the guide holder to move transversely to the longitudinal vehicle direction. The bracket sections hold respective wheels of a bicycle held on the support holder. Fixing elements are respectively connected to the retaining bracket and a corresponding bracket section. Each fixing element includes a locking member movable between a locked position in which the fixing element locks the corresponding bracket section in place and an unlocked position in which the fixing element unlocks the corresponding bracket section. Actuating mechanisms respectively associated with the fixing elements are operable to move the locking member of the corresponding fixing element between the locked and unlocked positions.