Patent ID: 7703350

Claim:
A bicycle control device comprising: a control lever; a lever bracket movably supporting the control lever; and an electrical unit coupled to the lever bracket, the lever bracket including a bracket body having a rearwardly located bicycle mounting portion, a control lever mounting portion, a pair of lateral side portions located between the bicycle mounting portion and the control lever mounting portion, and a unit mounting portion with a forwardly opening recess containing the electrical unit at location disposed forwardly of the lateral side portions, an electrical connector housing pivotally coupled to the bracket body, and a bracket lid releasably coupled to a forward face of the unit mounting portion of the bracket body to at least partially enclose the electrical unit within the forwardly opening recess in the unit mounting portion of the bracket body, the bracket lid being positioned forwardly with respect to areas of the lateral side portions of the bracket body that are disposed between the bicycle mounting portion and the control lever mounting portion, the bracket lid releasably mating with the unit mounting portion such that the bracket lid moves in the forward direction during removal of the bracket lid from the unit mounting portion of the bracket body, a rearmost portion of the bracket lid being further positioned forwardly with respect to a frontmost portion of the electrical connector housing.