US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on July 14 for "Motor unit and electric bicycle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,500, issued on July 14, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Motor unit and electric bicycle" was invented by Masafumi Kawakami (Nara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor unit includes: a case; a motor housed in the case; an input shaft; an output body; and a speed reducer mechanism. The input shaft penetrates through the case in an axial direction and is arranged to be rotatable around an axis defining the axial direction. The output body is arranged in the case to be rotatable around the axis. The speed reducer mechanism is housed in the case and reduces a rotational speed of...