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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2002
Applicant:
Inventor:
Wen-Hwa Lin, Taipei, TW;
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B62K 2/106 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B62K 2/106 ;
Abstract
A bicycle head tube and ball bearing mounting arrangement in which two gasket rings are respectively mounted in expanded top and bottom receiving portions of a head tube to support a respective ball bearing assembly in each end of the head tube, which ball bearing assembly supports a handlebar stem and front fork assembly in the head tube, the gasket rings each having a curved inner diameter fitted over the bottom edge of the respective ball bearing assembly to prevent direct contact of the bottom edge of the respective ball bearing assembly from direct contact with the respective expanded receiving portion of the head tube.