Bicycle rental system and station

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9076136
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13012239

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A bicycle rental system and automated station that may be integrated with an automobile parking payment and management system. Users may pay for parking and/or rent and pickup bicycles at the station. The station has a meter, bicycle docks, and power plant. Transaction formalities for parking payment and rental may be handled at the meter. The bicycle docks each are adapted to secure a bicycle. The power plant uses a solar panel to collect power and stores it in energy storage device. Low-power operation may be achieved by placing some electronics in a low-power mode. Each bicycle dock may have a trigger mechanism that when activated powers on associated electronics. The bicycle docks may be divided among a number of bicycle modules. The bicycle modules provide flexibility and modularity so that the number of bicycle docks at a station may be changed.

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  • 8D TECHNOLOGIES INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Bettez, Isabelle Vaudreuil-sur-le-Lac, CA 3 256
Bettez, Jean-Sebastien Hudson, CA 2 103

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