Snowmobile ski assembly and method for adjusting a ski runner of a ski thereof
AssigneeBRP Megatech Industries Inc.
InventorsSamuel GENEREUX, Alec FOISY
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Abstract
A snowmobile ski assembly and a method for adjusting a ski runner thereof. The method includes sensing, by a steering angle sensor, a steering angle and receiving, by the controller, a steering angle signal. The steering angle signal is indicative of the steering angle. The method continues with the controller generating an adjustment signal based on the steering angle signal. The method proceeds with moving the ski runner relative to the ski to adjust a distance by which the ski runner extends below the ski, the ski runner being moved by an actuator operatively connected to the ski runner, the actuator being actuated in response to the adjustment signal.
Claims20
A method for adjusting a ski runner of a ski of a snowmobile, the method comprising:
- sensing, by a steering angle sensor, a steering angle;
- receiving, by a controller, a steering angle signal from the steering angle sensor, the steering angle signal being indicative of the sensed steering angle;
- generating, by the controller, an adjustment signal based on the steering angle signal;
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- moving the ski runner relative to the ski to adjust a distance by which the ski runner extends below the ski, the ski runner being moved by an actuator operatively connected to the ski runner, the actuator being actuated in response to the adjustment signal.
A snowmobile ski assembly for a snowmobile, the snowmobile ski assembly comprising:
- a ski defining a slot;
- a ski runner disposed in the slot, the ski runner being moveable in the slot relative to the ski;
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- a runner adjustment assembly connected to the ski runner, the runner adjustment assembly having a motor operatively connected to the ski runner moving the ski runner relative to the ski,
- the ski runner remaining substantially rotationally fixed relative to the ski during movement of the ski runner.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.