ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,224, issued on May 19, was assigned to SRAM DEUTSCHLAND GmbH (Schweinfurt, Germany).
"Freewheel hub for a bicycle" was invented by Joachim Goebel (Prosselsheim, Germany) and Martin Kehrer (Bad Neustadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A freewheel hub for a bicycle includes a driver and a hub sleeve, which are each supported on a hub axle to be rotatable about a common axis of rotation, a detent body arrangement having at least one detent body, supported in a radial detent body recess to be displaceable between a locking position and a release position, and a preloading device, which is configured to preload the detent body towa...