US Patent Issued to FRANCE REDUCTEURS on March 18 for "Transmission for pedestrian-controlled wheeled vehicle and wheeled vehicle equipped with such a transmission" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,902, issued on March 18, was assigned to FRANCE REDUCTEURS (Les Herbiers, France).

"Transmission for pedestrian-controlled wheeled vehicle and wheeled vehicle equipped with such a transmission" was invented by Pierre Bru (Sevremoine, France) and Nicolas Didier (Mouchamps, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmission for a wheeled vehicle has a drive member, a rotatable driven member in permanent engagement with the drive member, a wheel drive shaft and, disposed between the wheel drive shaft and the driven member, a clutch mechanism. A part of the clutch mechanism which, in the deactivated state of the clutch mechanism, is d...