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US 5,894,900 AGranted
Motor vehicle with rear crawler belts
AssigneesHonda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, The Ohtsu Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.
InventorsTakahiro Yamamoto, Kouichi Uchibaba, Hajime Yoshimura
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Abstract
A crawler motor vehicle includes a pair of crawler belts trained around drive rear wheels and idle wheels which are rotatably mounted on the motor vehicle body. The crawler motor vehicle also has a pair of front wheels having respective tires and rotatably mounted on the motor vehicle body such that the front wheels will be subject to a camber thrust in the same negative direction as the negative direction of a camber thrust applied to the crawler belts.
Claims4
A motor vehicle comprising:
- a motor vehicle body having opposite sides;
- a pair of rear drive wheels rotatably mounted one on each side of said motor vehicle body;
- a pair of crawler belts, each trained around one of said pair of rear drive wheels, respectively;
- each of said crawler belts having a high tread rigidity capable of producing a camber thrust acting in a first direction;
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- a pair of front wheels having respective tires and rotatably mounted on said opposite sides of said motor vehicle body, each tire having a high tread rigidity capable of producing a camber thrust acting in said same first direction, wherein each of said crawler belts comprises an endless belt base part and a tread comprising a plurality of ridges extending transversely outward from the base part, the tread comprising a pattern of major chevrons at predetermined intervals spaced along the belt in the direction of motion of the belt, each major chevron defined by three minor chevrons spaced apart successively in the direction of the belt's motion, each minor chevron comprising four ridges defining an inverted V having a point pointing in the direction of the belt's motion and a tail at the opposite end.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.