Starters for internal combustion engine
AssigneeMaruyama Mfg. Co., Inc.
InventorsToshihisa Nemoto, Terutaka Yasuda
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Abstract
Provided are starters for securely starting an internal combustion engine. The starters have a reel rotatably mounted in a case, a starting rope wound on the reel, a rotor rotatably mounted in the case, a spring for storing energy with rotation of the rotor in a predetermined direction, an engaging mechanism for engaging the reel with the rotor with pullout of the starting rope to transmit a torque of the reel to the rotor to store energy in the spring, and an engagement release mechanism for releasing the engagement between the reel and the rotor at the start of rewinding of the starting rope onto the reel to rotate the rotor by a restoring force of the spring. This arrangement permits the internal combustion engine to be started readily and securely.
Claims11
An engine starter for starting an internal combustion engine, in which energy is stored in an energy storing spring housed in a case fixed relative to the internal combustion engine with pullout of a starting rope from said case and in which the spring energy stored in said energy storing spring is released to rotate a crank shaft of said internal combustion engine, thereby starting the internal combustion engine, wherein said engine starter is constructed so that the spring energy stored in the energy storing spring is released at the start of rewinding of said starting rope which has been pulled out from the case.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.