US Patent Issued to Raicam Driveline on July 21 for "Power-split hybrid driveline for an electric bicycle" (Italian, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,466, issued on July 21, was assigned to Raicam Driveline S.R.L. (Mondovi, Italy).

"Power-split hybrid driveline for an electric bicycle" was invented by Benjamin Chetwood Struve' (Kenilworth, Great Britain), Sandro Bonardo (Peveragno, Italy), Gianpiero Lenta (Roreto di Cherasco, Italy), Flavio Santomauro (Sommariva del Bosco, Italy), Fausto Michele Pignatta (Busca, Italy) and Andrea Canestrari (San Costanzo, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric auxiliary drive system for a bicycle having a pedal crankshaft, an epicyclic gearing mechanism, an assist motor for driving an output shaft, and a control motor for controlling, th...