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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 1987
Filed:
Nov. 04, 1985
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Suzuki Motor Company Limited, , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B62D / ; B62D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
180-921 ; 180-925 ; 180-958 ; 180-964 ; 180183 ; 305 24 ; 305 27 ;
Abstract
An off-road vehicle is equipped with an endless articulated steel band drive system including a drive wheel, a plurality of idle wheels and an endless belt extending around the drive wheel and the idle wheel. A back slider plate extends along the inner surface of the endless belt to urge the ground contact surface of the endless belt against the ground. The leading portion of the back plate rises upwardly at an angle of with respect to the ground. One of the idle wheels is rotatably mounted to the rear end of the back plate and the back plate is mounted to the vehicle frame by a leaf spring.