US Patent Issued to Mega-Line Racing Technology on Nov. 18 for "Variable-speed transmission with electric motor-driven shift drum, and method for controlling such a variable-speed transmission" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,976, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Mega-Line Racing Technology GMBH (Langquaid, Germany).

"Variable-speed transmission with electric motor-driven shift drum, and method for controlling such a variable-speed transmission" was invented by Christian Schmidt (Hemau, Germany) and Norbert Fuchs (Pentling, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a torque-converting or speed-converting variable-speed transmission with at least two gear ratios. Each gear ratios is assigned at least one changeable gear pair. Shifting elements act on sliding sleeves (24) connected to the gear pairs to change these gear pairs. The shifting eleme...