US 8,074,759 B2Granted

Method of assembling a modular snowmobile platform

AssigneeBombardier Recreational Products Inc.

InventorsMihai Rasidescu, Denis Morin

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Abstract

The present invention concerns a method for designing and manufacturing a snowmobile platform. The method entails designing and manufacturing a group of tunnel subassemblies, designing and manufacturing a group of engine cradle subassemblies, and designing and manufacturing a group of front suspension subassemblies. Next, one tunnel subassembly, one engine cradle subassembly, and one front suspension subassembly are selected from each respective group. Then, the tunnel subassembly is connected to the engine cradle subassembly at a rear portion thereof. Finally, the front suspension subassembly is connected to the engine cradle subassembly at a front portion thereof to create the snowmobile platform. The present invention also concerns a snowmobile platform constructed according to this method, which combines, among other elements, a tunnel subassembly, an engine cradle subassembly, and a front suspension subassembly.

Claims12

Dependent claims

A method of assembling a snowmobile platform, comprising:

providing a group of front suspension subassemblies, the group of front suspension subassemblies including at least two front suspension subassemblies having different characteristics;
providing a group of engine cradle subassemblies, the group of engine cradle subassemblies including at least two engine cradle subassemblies having different characteristics, each of the engine cradle subassemblies of the group of engine cradle subassemblies being connectable to each of the front suspension subassemblies of the group of front suspension subassemblies;
providing a group of tunnel subassemblies, the group of tunnel subassemblies including at least two tunnel subassemblies having different characteristics, each of the tunnel subassemblies of the group of tunnel subassemblies being connectable to each of the engine cradle of the group of engine cradle subassemblies,
forming a snowmobile platform at least in part by combining a front suspension subassembly selected from the group of front suspension subassemblies, an engine cradle subassembly selected from the group of engine cradle subassemblies and a tunnel subassembly selected from the group of tunnel subassemblies.

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Facts

Application: 12/710,150Filed 22 Feb 2010 · continuation
Priority: 15 Dec 2003
Published: US 2010/0288574 A118 Nov 2010
Granted: 13 Dec 2011
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

B62M 27/02
Propulsion devices for sledges or the like: power driven
B62M 2027/026
Power driven: snow mobiles characterised by the suspension means
Y10T 29/49904
Assembling or joining: assembling a subassembly, then assembling with a second subassembly
B62M
Rider propulsion of wheeled vehicles or sledges

Family

Application10/734,267Parent of this division · filed 15 Dec 2003
Application11/422,543Parent of this continuation · filed 6 Jun 2006
US 2010/0288574 A1Pre-grant publication · published 18 Nov 2010
Application11/422,543Parent of this division
US 2005/0126839 A1Published application
US 2007/0062751 A1Published application
US 8,074,759 B2This patent

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