Wind leading system for snowmobile
AssigneeYamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHiroyuki Inagawa, Takashi Yamamura
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Abstract
A snowmobile having an improved cooling arrangement including a front mounted radiator and a ducting system for ducting cooling air through the radiator and away from the windshield and rider's hands on the handlebars of the snowmobile.
Claims5
A snowmobile having a body carrying a seat at a rear end thereof, a drive belt suspended beneath said seat, a handlebar assembly positioned forwardly of said seat for steering of said snowmobile by at least one dirigible ski mounted at a front portion of said body, an engine compartment positioned forwardly of said seat, a windshield having a base carried by said body forwardly of said seat and said handlebar assembly, a water cooled internal combustion engine contained within said engine compartment for driving said drive belt, a radiator for receiving coolant from said engine, said radiator being positioned within said body at a forward portion thereof, an air inlet opening formed in said body forwardly of said radiator for directing air flow through said radiator, and outlet duct means for ducting the air exiting said radiator along the base of said windshield and rearward and outwardly away from said windshield and said handlebar assembly wherein the outlet duct means comprises a pair of outlet ducts formed by recesses in the body on opposite sides of the base of the windshield.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.