Patent ID: 7815262
Filing Date: 2010-10-19
Classification: B62D

Abstract:
1. A track chain assembly comprising: a track shoe having a ground-engaging surface and a non ground-engaging surface that is opposite to the ground-engaging surface, wherein a grouser is provided on the ground-engaging surface; a plurality of bolts; a pair of parallel links that are fixed to the non ground-engaging surface of the track shoe by the bolts, each of the links having a first end portion and a second end portion, wherein a shaft hole is provided in the first end portion and the second end portion of each of the links, and the first end portion and the second end portion of each of the links are connectable to other adjacent links; a connecting shaft fixed to the shaft holes provided in the first end portions of the links; an open area between the links, the open area being created by spacing the second end portions of the links so as to be free from each other; and a reinforcing member that is formed separately from the track shoe and connects the pair of links with the bolts, thereby reinforcing the open area, wherein the reinforcing member is provided on the ground-engaging surface of the track shoe.