US Patent Issued to Arctic Cat on Sept. 1 for "Reversible belt drive assemblies for snowmobiles" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,742, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Arctic Cat Inc. (Thief River Falls, Minn.).

"Reversible belt drive assemblies for snowmobiles" was invented by Kyle D. Olason (Thief River Falls, Minn.) and Samuel James Sandoz (Thief River Falls, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A powertrain for a snowmobile includes an engine, a gearbox input shaft receiving rotational energy from the engine and a reversible belt drive assembly coupled to the gearbox input shaft. The reversible belt drive assembly is switchable between a forward mode and a reverse mode and includes a pulley, a planetary gear system coaxial with the pulley and a selector c...