US Patent Issued to GIANT MANUFACTURING on May 19 for "Seat post, bicycle and travel spacer installing method" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,244, issued on May 19, was assigned to GIANT MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Taichung City, Taiwan).

"Seat post, bicycle and travel spacer installing method" was invented by Cheng Ru Chuang (Taichung City, Taiwan) and Tsung Mu Tsai (Taichung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seat post has an axis direction and includes a lower tube, a gas cylinder, an upper tube, a first stop element, a travel spacer and a second stop element. The lower tube includes a lower tube inner surface, an accommodating space and an opening. The lower tube inner surface forms the accommodating space and includes a lower overlap area. The upper tube include...