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US 12,630,259 B2Granted
Taillight housing, snow flap and assembly thereof
AssigneeArctic Cat Inc.
InventorsDavid Larry Vigen, Steven Theodore Janzow
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Abstract
A taillight housing and a snow flap are provided for a snowmobile, wherein the taillight housing is mountable to a bumper/hand bar and a drive track tunnel of a snowmobile such that the taillight housing assembly provides structural reinforcement to the drive track tunnel, and the snow flap is mountable to the bumper/hand bar and optionally mountable to the taillight housing.
Claims19
A taillight housing assembly for a snowmobile, said taillight housing assembly comprising:
- a main body that is connectable to a drive track tunnel of a snowmobile;
- and
- a pair of opposing retention wings extending from opposing lateral ends of the main body that are structured and operable to mount to a bumper/hand bar of the snowmobile, the opposing retention wings having a C-like shape at a most lateral portion of the taillight housing assembly such that opposing retention wings are mateable with an inboard side, an outboard and a forward side of the bumper/hand bar,
- wherein the taillight housing assembly is mountable to the drive track tunnel and the bumper/hand bar such that the taillight housing assembly provides structural reinforcement to the drive track tunnel.
1 more element
A taillight and snow flap assembly for a snowmobile, said assembly comprising:
- a taillight housing assembly mountable to a bumper/hand bar and a drive track tunnel of a snowmobile such that the taillight housing assembly provides structural reinforcement to the drive track tunnel;
- and
- a snow flap mountable to a taillight housing assembly, the snow flap comprising a pair of opposing retention arms extending from ends of opposing sidewalls of the snow flap and structured and operable to mount to the bumper/hand bar at a most lateral portion of the snow flap.
A snow flap for a snowmobile, said snow flap comprising:
- a main body;
- and
- a pair of opposing retention arms extending from ends of opposing sidewalls of the main body, the retention arms structured and operable to mount to a bumper/hand bar of a snowmobile at a most lateral portion of the bumper/hand bar.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.