Patent ID: 8562238

Claim:
A pipe handle holding structure comprising: a round pipe-shaped bar handle, said bar handle having a radius; and a holder for holding an external peripheral surface of the bar handle, wherein the holder has a plurality of enclosing parts for enclosing the external peripheral surface of the bar handle and causing the bar handle to elastically deform in a pipe diameter direction, wherein the holder is divided into two holder halves, each of the holder halves including some of said plurality of enclosing parts, the holder halves have respective grooves recessed from opposed surfaces thereof in directions opposite the opposed surfaces, the grooves, when the holder halves are mated together, define a single through-hole that serves as a handle insertion hole for allowing passage of the bar handle, wherein the internal peripheral surface of the handle insertion hole comprises bottom surfaces of the two holder halves, the enclosing parts are positioned on an internal peripheral surface of the handle insertion hole at predetermined intervals in an internal peripheral direction and are formed with a radius of curvature that is between 0.1 and 0.2 mm greater than the radius of the bar handle in an undeformed state, and when the mated holder halves are manually fastened by a knobbed fastening member, the bar handle is elastically deformed in a pipe diameter direction in accordance with the fastening force, and the bottom surfaces of the two holder halves include pipe-outward-deformation allowing parts at portions where the enclosing parts are not positioned, the pipe-outward-deformation allowing parts bottom surfaces being formed with a radius of curvature that is between 1 mm to 2 mm less than the radius of the bar handle in the undeformed state, said pipe-outward-deformation allowing parts allowing unenclosed portions of the bar handle to elastically deform diametrically outward when the bar handle is enclosed and fully clamped by the enclosing parts and elastically deforms radially inwardly, and the bar handle as a whole elastically deforms into a distorted configuration, partly compressed and partly elongated, in a pipe diameter direction.