Recoil starter
AssigneeStarting Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorHideki Hashiba
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Abstract
A recoil starter includes: a reel/cam unit including: a rope reel wound with a starter rope and urged to pivot in a direction of reeling the starter rope; and a cam in a cylindrical shape for transmitting rotation of the rope reel to an output shaft on a side of an engine; a damper unit for connecting the rope reel and the cam; a reel support shaft for supporting the rope reel and the cam; and a draw-out preventing unit for restricting the reel/cam unit from being moved along the reel support shaft, wherein: one side of the cam is extended to form a cylindrical extended portion; the rope reel is fitted to an outer side of the cylindrical extended portion; and the cylindrical extended portion is rotatably fitted to an outer side of the reel support shaft.
Claims3
A recoil starter comprising:
- a reel/cam unit including:
- a rope reel wound with a starter rope one end of which is arranged on an outer side of a starter case and urged to pivot in a direction of reeling the starter rope;
- and
- a cam in a cylindrical shape for transmitting rotation of the rope reel to an output shaft on a side of an engine;
- a damper unit for connecting the rope reel and the cam;
- a reel support shaft for supporting the rope reel and the cam;
- and
- a draw-out preventing unit for restricting the reel/cam unit from being moved along the reel support shaft, wherein:
- one side of the cam is extended to form a cylindrical extended portion;
- the rope reel is fitted to an outer side of the cylindrical extended portion;
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- the cylindrical extended portion is rotatably fitted to an outer side of the reel support shaft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.