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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7770483 | Power train for an amphibious vehicle A power train for an amphibious vehicle includes an engine and transaxle arranged North-South, driving front, rear, or all four road wheels. A power take off with optional decoupler and constant velocity joint drives marine drive means. The power take off may be tak... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7207283 | Marine craft Marine craft has a crushable frontal impact protection structure, comprising transverse bulkhead protecting passenger area; longitudinal crushable tubes; and transverse member. Webs and strengthen tubes, which may be made of extruded, heat treated aluminum; stainles... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7011557 | Amphibious vehicle Amphibious vehicle comprises longitudinally mounted prime mover, transmission, and offset final drive; with drive outputs; and a power take off. Outputs drive front and rear differentials, via optional decouplers. Power take off powers drive tube, independently from... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6994358 | Bump stop Bump stop for an amphibious vehicle suspension having a member selectively movable between an operating position, and an inoperative position. This allows the suspension to retract road wheels along locus for conversion to marine mode. Bump stop free end may be move... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6957991 | Power train Power train or an amphibious vehicle having an engine, transmission, and transfer case position in-line with longitudinal vehicle axis towards the rear of the vehicle, with transmission output facing the front of the vehicle. The transfer drive drives the rear wheel... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6951492 | Vehicle cooling arrangements Engine (101) of an amphibious vehicle (100) is located in engine compartment (102). The engine is cooled by radiator(s) (103), mounted in cooling compartment (104), which is separate to compartment (102), and may be sealed o... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6945832 | Suspension arrangement Vehicle suspension having a control arm pivotally mounted to vehicle body. Wheel support is pivotally mounted to the control arm. A hydraulic strut is pivotally mounted to body at trunnion mount. The wheel may be protracted to be placed vertically on the road surfac... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6910928 | Amphibious vehicle with spray control means Amphibious vehicle (10, FIG. 1) has at least one rear wheel arch 14 with recess 20 opening at mouth 22 in arch rear surface 28. The recess contains spray generated by the wheel arch passing over water, channelling spray in a... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6886837 | Hydraulic suspension strut for an amphibious vehicle A hydraulic suspension strut (30) has a first on-off valve (58) connecting the first and second chambers (42 and 44), and a second on-off valve (62) connected to chamber (42) only. Suspension arm (3) of wheel (1 | 05/03/2005 |
| 6881107 | Amphibious vehicle comprising an improved decoupler A decoupler for coupling/decoupling drive between a power train output and road wheels or marine drive means in an amphibious vehicle, is integrated with a constant velocity joint, saving space, weight, and cost for low production volumes, and simplifying mounting a... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6855017 | Power train Power train for an amphibious vehicle has an engine aligned with vehicle axis. The crankshaft drives optional flexible coupling, shaft, and optional decoupler. Drive shaft drives marine propulsion means, which may be a water jet drive or a screw propeller. Shaft als... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6821166 | Power train Power train for amphibious vehicle comprises engine aligned with longitudinal vehicle axis, transmission, and power take off mounted between engine and transmission. At least one marine propulsion unit mounted at the rear of the vehicle, is driven by shaft which run... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6796856 | Steering system A steering system for amphibious vehicle includes a control connected to road steering means. Ram is conventionally used to assist road steering, but by disconnecting command valves, it becomes a hydraulic master cylinder, driving slave cylinder; and thus marine ste... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6776672 | Power train Amphibious vehicle power train includes an engine mounted above, or above and to one side of transmission. Axis of crankshaft is parallel to axis of transmission input shaft, and to longitudinal vehicle axis. Crankshaft longitudinally overlaps input shaft. Engine is... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6773315 | Power train An amphibious vehicle power train has an engine with crankshaft and solid or fluid flywheel; a transmission arranged in line with the crankshaft, with an input shaft driven from the flywheel; and a power take off for driving shafts and marine propulsion means. The p... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6764358 | Amphibious vehicle Amphibious vehicle (40, FIG. 7) comprises engine (2) with its crankshaft aligned with front and rear axis (X) of the vehicle; transmission (3); and differential (4) offset from the transmission. The differential has front and rear ... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6712652 | Power train Amphibious vehicle power train 10 comprises a prime mover 12, transfer drive 14, transmission 16, and differential 17. A marine drive power take-off (PTO) comprises chain, belt, or gear drive, and optional decoupler 22. Rota... | 03/30/2004 |
