Recoil starter
AssigneesHonda Motor Co., Ltd., Starting Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorsMitsuhiro Ito, Yutaro Kinoshita, Tomoyasu Mizuno, Yoshinori Horikoshi
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Abstract
In a recoil starter that starts an engine, the recoil starter rotating a drive shaft of the engine using rotation force of a reel through a recoil rope wound around the reel, by the recoil rope being pulled, a ratchet claw is provided on the reel, the ratchet claw pivoting in a radial direction of the reel with rotation of the reel by the recoil rope and then engaging with a pulley provided on the drive shaft, a guide member is provided around a reel shaft, the guide member covering the ratchet claw, the reel shaft being a rotation shaft of the reel, and a rib is provided on the guide member, the rib abutting on the ratchet claw.
Claims3
A recoil starter that starts an engine, the recoil starter rotating a drive shaft of the engine using rotation force of a reel through a recoil rope wound around the reel, by the recoil rope being pulled, wherein:
- a ratchet claw is provided on the reel, the ratchet claw pivoting in a radial direction of the reel with rotation of the reel by the recoil rope and then engaging with a pulley provided on the drive shaft;
- a guide member is provided around a reel shaft, the guide member covering the ratchet claw, the reel shaft being a rotation shaft of the reel;
- a rib is provided on the guide member, the rib abutting on the ratchet claw;
- the reel has a top surface that is positioned on a side of the engine;
- a containing portion in which the ratchet claw is contained is provided in the reel;
- the containing portion has a concave shape that is depressed in a shaft direction of the reel shaft toward a side opposite to the engine from the top surface;
- a containing surface that is a flat surface provided so as to stand from the top surface is formed on the containing portion;
- an engagement surface that is a flat surface is provided on the ratchet claw;
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- in a case where the recoil rope is not pulled and where the reel is in a stationary state without rotating, a whole of the engagement surface abuts on the containing surface and the rib abuts on the ratchet claw, so that the ratchet claw is fixed by being sandwiched between the containing surface and the rib.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.