US Patent Issued to ZF Friedrichshafen on Nov. 18 for "Electric drive device for a bicycle and bicycle having same" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,051, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Electric drive device for a bicycle and bicycle having same" was invented by Peter Ziemer (Bad Woerishofen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric drive device for a bicycle includes a transmission, an electric motor, a drive shaft, and a drive wheel arranged coaxially to the drive shaft. A first freewheeling element and a second freewheeling element are arranged in a one-piece freewheeling element carrier. The drive wheel is connectable to the drive shaft via the one-piece freewheeling element carrier by the first freewheeling elem...