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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2012
Mathieu Gauthier, Sherbrooke, CA;
Sylvain Matte, Saint-Denis-de-Brompton, CA;
Max Richer, Valcourt, CA;
Gaetan Lecours, Valcourt, CA;
Michel Lefebvre, Valcourt, CA;
Mathieu Gauthier, Sherbrooke, CA;
Sylvain Matte, Saint-Denis-de-Brompton, CA;
Max Richer, Valcourt, CA;
Gaetan Lecours, Valcourt, CA;
Michel Lefebvre, Valcourt, CA;
Bombardier Recreational Products Inc., Valcourt, CA;
Abstract
A snowmobile has a frame with an engine compartment and a tunnel, a front suspension, at least one ski, an engine, a bracket having a first portion joined to the engine and a second portion having an aperture defined therein, an output shaft, a countershaft passing through the aperture and being supported by the second portion of the bracket, a motion decoupler disposed in the aperture around the countershaft, the countershaft being rotationally supported in the motion decoupler, a driving pulley disposed on the output shaft, a driven pulley disposed on the countershaft, a drive belt looped around the driving and driven pulleys, and an endless drive track. The driving pulley, the driven pulley and the drive belt together form a continuously variable transmission.