Snowmobile
AssigneeYamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMasanori Yoshihara
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Abstract
A snowmobile includes a vehicle frame, a track belt to which driving force is transferred from an engine mounted on the vehicle frame, a guide rail guiding the track belt, a frontal connecting member rotatably connected to the vehicle frame and the guide rail in a front portion of the snowmobile, a rear connecting member rotatably connected to the vehicle frame and the guide rail in a rear portion of the snowmobile, a first link member rotatably connected to the frontal connecting member, and a second link member rotatably connected to the first link member and the guide rail, and a shock absorber rotatably connected to the first link member or the second link member via a first connecting member. The first connecting member is provided above a second connecting member connecting the guide rail and the second link member.
Claims18
A snowmobile comprising:
- a vehicle frame;
- a track belt to which driving force is transferred from an engine mounted on the vehicle frame;
- a guide rail guiding the track belt;
- a frontal connecting member rotatably connected to the vehicle frame and the guide rail in a front end of the snowmobile;
- a rear connecting member rotatably connected to the vehicle frame and the guide rail in a rear end of the snowmobile;
- a link mechanism connected to the frontal connecting member and the guide rail, the link mechanism including a first link member rotatably connected to the frontal connecting member, and a second link member rotatably connected to the first link member and the guide rail;
- a first connecting member;
- a second connecting member;
- and
- a shock absorber connected to the link mechanism and the rear connecting member;
- wherein
- the shock absorber is rotatably connected to the first link member or the second link member via said first connecting member, and the first connecting member is provided above said second connecting member which connects the guide rail and the second link member.
A snowmobile comprising:
- a vehicle frame;
- a track belt to which driving force is transferred from an engine mounted on the vehicle frame;
- a guide rail guiding the track belt;
- a frontal connecting member rotatably connected to the vehicle frame and the guide rail in a front end of the snowmobile;
- a rear connecting member rotatably connected to the vehicle frame and the guide rail in a rear end of the snowmobile;
- a first link member rotatably connected to the frontal connecting member;
- a second link member rotatably connected to the first link member and the guide rail;
- and
- a shock absorber connected to either the first link member or the second link member and the rear connecting member;
- wherein
- a first connecting member connecting the first link member and the second link member is positioned further to the front of the snowmobile than a first line segment connecting a second connecting member connecting the frontal connecting member and the first link member and a third connecting member connecting the guide rail and the second link member;
- the shock absorber is arranged such that a line extending from the axis of the shock absorber intersects the first line segment;
- and
- a fourth connecting member connecting the shock absorber to either the first link member or the second link member is positioned above the third connecting member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.