US Patent Issued to Stellantis Europe on May 26 for "Wheel unit with disengageable drive for an electric vehicle" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,909, issued on May 26, was assigned to Stellantis Europe S.p.A. (Turin, Italy).

"Wheel unit with disengageable drive for an electric vehicle" was invented by Renato Badino (Turin, Italy) and Oreste Bertini (Turin, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wheel unit with a disengageable drive for an electric vehicle has a wheel pin rotatably supported within a cylindrical wall of a central opening of the a wheel hub by a first rolling bearing, arranged on a portion of the wheel pin further away from a driven member (6, and by a second rolling bearing and a third rolling bearing set alongside one another, arranged on a portion of the whee...