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US 2025/0092849 A1Published application
Snowmobile
AssigneeBombardier Recreational Products Inc.
InventorsYvon BEDARD, Maxime DORMOY
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Abstract
A snowmobile including a frame including a tunnel; a motor; a rear suspension assembly; an endless track; and left and right skis operatively connected to the frame. When the snowmobile is at rest and unloaded on a horizontal ground surface, at least one of (i) a vertically highest one of the left suspension connections, and (ii) a vertically highest one of the right suspension connections, is disposed laterally inward of a lateral outermost edge of a corresponding one of the left body panel and the right body panel.
Claims8
A snowmobile comprising:
- a frame including a tunnel;
- a motor supported by the frame and configured to drive the snowmobile;
- a rear suspension assembly operatively connected to the frame and disposed beneath the tunnel;
- an endless track operatively connected to the motor and driven thereby about the rear suspension assembly;
- a plurality of fairings including left and right body panels, the left and right body panels respectively defining leftmost and rightmost points of the fairings;
- left and right skis operatively connected to the frame;
- left and right ski legs connected to the left and right skis and extending upwardly therefrom;
- a front left suspension assembly operatively connecting the left ski leg to the frame via a plurality of left suspension connections between the front left suspension assembly and the left ski leg, the front left suspension assembly comprising:
- a left upper A-arm connected between the left ski leg and the frame, the plurality of left suspension connections including an upper left suspension connection between the left ski leg and the left upper A-arm;
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- a left lower A-arm connected between the left ski leg and the frame, the plurality of left suspension connections including a lower left suspension connection between the left ski leg and the left lower A-arm;
- a front right suspension assembly operatively connecting the right ski leg to the frame via a plurality of right suspension connections between the front right suspension assembly and the right ski leg, the front right suspension assembly comprising:
- a right upper A-arm connected between the right ski leg and the frame, the plurality of right suspension connections including an upper right suspension connection between the right ski leg and the right upper A-arm;
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- a right lower A-arm connected between the right ski leg and the frame, the plurality of right suspension connections including a lower right suspension connection between the right ski leg and the right lower A-arm,
- wherein, when the snowmobile is at rest and unloaded on a horizontal ground surface, at least one of (i) a vertically highest one of the plurality of left suspension connections, and (ii) a vertically highest one of the plurality of right suspension connections, is disposed laterally inward of a lateral outermost edge of a corresponding one of the left body panel and the right body panel.
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