US Patent Issued to G. FALCON CYCLE-PARTS on July 14 for "Freewheel assembly convertible between freewheel and fixed-gear modes" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,138, issued on July 14, was assigned to G. FALCON CYCLE-PARTS Co. LTD (Taichung City, Taiwan).

"Freewheel assembly convertible between freewheel and fixed-gear modes" was invented by Wei-Yueh Chang (Taichung City, Taiwan) and Ryan Eugene Liles (Taichung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A freewheel assembly has a hub, a brake mechanism, and at least one switch. The hub has an axle, a hub shell mounted around the axle, a drive screw disposed at one of two ends of the hub shell; and a sprocket mounted around the drive screw and having an inner shell and an outer shell. The inner shell is screwed with the drive screw and has a...