Patent ID: 9132887
Filing Date: 2015-09-15
Classification: B62M,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A bicycle operating device comprising: a housing; a control member rotatably disposed on the housing about a rotational axis to control a control cable; a first user operating member having an operating part for rotating the control member in a first rotational direction; a second user operating member having a pawl for rotating the control member in a second rotational direction, which is opposite to the first rotational direction; a pivoting member movably disposed on the housing for pivotal displacement between a first position and a second position about a pivot axis by the first user operating member, the pivoting member being a separate member from the first user operating member such that the pivoting member moves relative to the first user operating member as the pivoting member moves between the first and second positions; and a transmission operatively disposed between the pivoting member and the control member and including a ratchet, a positioning tooth and a maintaining tooth, at least one of the positioning tooth and the maintaining tooth being a separate member from the pivoting member, the ratchet including a single disk element having a plurality of first teeth engaged by the positioning tooth while the pivoting member is disposed at the first position, a plurality of second teeth engaged by the maintaining tooth while the pivoting member is disposed at the second position, and a plurality of third teeth engaged by the pawl of the second user operating member in response to the second user operating member being operated, at least one of the first, second and third teeth being arranged on a periphery of the disk element and at least one of the first, second and third teeth being arranged radially inside of the at least one of the first, second and third teeth that are arranged on the periphery of the disk element with respect to the rotational axis of the control member.