US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on March 31 for "Motor unit and electric bicycle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,829, issued on March 31, 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, an input shaft, an input body, 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. The input body is disposed along an outer peripheral surface of the input shaft and rotates along with the input shaft. The output body is arranged along the outer peripheral surface of the input shaft t...