Patent ID: 9399500
Filing Date: 2016-07-26
CPC Classification: B62K,B62M,G08C

Claim Text:
1. A bicycle wireless control system comprising: a first electric component of a bicycle including at least one operating member and a wireless transmitter that wirelessly transmits a plurality of control signals in response to a single operation of the at least one operating member, each of the control signals being transmitted for a predetermined transmission period at a predetermined non-transmission interval between adjacent ones of the control signals; and a second electric component of the bicycle, remote from the first electric component, including a wireless receiver that is configured to wirelessly receive the control signal and a controller operatively connected to the wireless receiver to use the control signal to control the second electric component, the controller being programmed to periodically operate the wireless receiver for a first predetermined listening period including a first initial predetermined listening period, a first closing predetermined listening period, and a first intermediate predetermined non-listening interval between the first initial predetermined listening period and the first closing predetermined listening period; and the controller being programmed to periodically operate the wireless receiver for a second predetermined listening period including a second initial predetermined listening period, a second closing predetermined listening period, and a second intermediate predetermined non-listening interval between the second initial predetermined listening period and the second closing predetermined listening period, a predetermined non-listening interval being provided between the first and second predetermined listening periods, each of the first and second intermediate predetermined non-listening intervals being smaller than the predetermined non-listening interval.