Patent ID: 11945539
Assignee: SPECIALIZED BICYCLE COMPONENTS, INC.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A suspension assembly for a cycle, the suspension assembly comprising:
a steering fork, the steering fork having a first arm and a second arm, each of the first arm and the second arm having a first end and a second end;
a shock absorber having a damper body and gas spring comprising a spring body, the spring body being sequentially arranged along a substantially common central axis with the damper body, the shock absorber including a first shock mount and a second shock mount, the first shock mount being connected to the first arm, the second shock mount being pivotably connected to a shock link, and the shock absorber being located on the first arm;
a spring unit, having a gas spring comprising a spring body, a first spring mount and a second spring mount, the first spring mount being connected to the second arm, the second spring mount being pivotably connected to the shock link, and the spring unit being substantially located on the second arm;
wherein the suspension assembly comprises a multi-bar trailing link configuration and the suspension assembly further comprises:
a first arm fixed pivot, a first arm shock pivot, and a first arm control pivot, a space between the first arm and the second arm forming a wheel opening;
the shock link having a shock link fixed pivot and a shock link floating pivot spaced apart from one another, the shock link being pivotably connected to the first arm fixed pivot at the shock link fixed pivot such that the shock link is rotatable about the shock link fixed pivot and the shock link fixed pivot remains in a fixed location relative to the first arm while the shock link floating pivot is movable relative to the first arm;
a wheel carrier, the wheel carrier having a wheel carrier first pivot and a wheel carrier second pivot spaced apart from one another along a length of the wheel carrier, and a wheel mount that is adapted to be connected to a wheel, the wheel mount positioned between and spaced from each of the wheel carrier first pivot and the wheel carrier second pivot, the wheel carrier first pivot being pivotably connected to the shock link floating pivot so that the wheel carrier second pivot is rotatable about the wheel carrier first pivot relative to the shock link floating pivot; and
a control link, the control link including a control link floating pivot and a control link fixed pivot, the control link floating pivot being pivotably connected to the wheel carrier second pivot, and the control link fixed pivot being pivotably connected to the first arm control pivot such that the control link floating pivot is rotatable about the control link fixed pivot, which remains in a fixed location relative to the first arm control pivot.