Having Specific Mounting Or Drive Connection For Electric Starter Motor Patents (Class 123/179.25)
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Patent number: 7117835Abstract: A motorcycle engine starter adapted to start an engine of a motorcycle that is not equipped with an engine starter. The motorcycle engine starter includes a first and second wheel rollers, a drive motor, and an motor activator. The first and second wheel rollers are spaced apart a distance to enable a wheel of the motorcycle to be partially positioned between the wheel rollers and to be at least partially supported by the wheel rollers. The drive motor causes rotation of the first wheel roller. The motor activator designed to activate the drive motor.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2006Date of Patent: October 10, 2006Inventor: Arthur W. Zimmerman
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Patent number: 7073472Abstract: A starter for cranking an internal combustion engine is composed of an electric motor, an output shaft driven by the motor, a pinion gear coupled to the output shaft, and a magnetic switch. Electric power is supplied to the motor from an on-board battery through a switch, a movable contact of which is driven by the magnetic switch. The movable contact is connected to a brush lead wire via a connection formed by soft-soldering. The connection formed by the soft-soldering is positioned close to the commutator and covered with an end cover, so that the temperature of the connection becomes higher than other places in the starter. The connection easily melts away to thereby shut off power supply to the motor when its temperature becomes unusually high, and thereby the starter is protected from overheating.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2004Date of Patent: July 11, 2006Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Masanori Oomi, Tsutomu Shiga
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Patent number: 7018314Abstract: An engine starter equipped with an impact absorber. The impact absorber is arranged between a planetary gear train and an overrunning clutch of the starter. The absorber includes a friction plate which is disposed between a clutch outer and a carrier plate of the overrunning clutch and urged elastically into frictional abutment with the carrier plate. This structure eliminates the need for installing the friction plate on an internal gear of the planetary gear train, thus permitting the internal gear to be reduced in size.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2004Date of Patent: March 28, 2006Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Youichi Hasegawa, Sadayoshi Kajino
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Patent number: 6997155Abstract: An engine starter structure for remote-control toy car is disclosed to include a cylinder block, a coupling block mounted inside the cylinder block and connected to the output shaft of the engine of the remote-control toy car, a side cover covering the cylinder block, and a starter block, which is mounted inside the cylinder block of the engine and engaged with a rod at the coupling block and has a coupling tube with a serrated front coupling edge suspending in the center through hole of the side cover for receiving the starting rod of a small electric engine starter for rotating the coupling block and the output shaft to start the engine.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2004Date of Patent: February 14, 2006Inventor: Ke-Way Lu
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Patent number: 6997128Abstract: A stand-up type personal watercraft comprises a body including a hull and a deck covering the hull from above, the body having a foot deck at a rear portion of the deck, on which an operator rides, a water jet pump configured to propel the watercraft, and a four-cycle multi-cylinder engine provided within the body and configured to drive the water jet pump, wherein the engine is disposed forward of the foot deck within the body and substantially at a center position in a longitudinal direction of the body.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2004Date of Patent: February 14, 2006Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yoshimoto Matsuda
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Patent number: 6997072Abstract: A starting apparatus for starting an engine has a drive motor and a reduction gear. The reduction gear includes a shock absorbing member and restricting members. The shock absorbing member is provided to elastically receive a reaction force exerted to an internal gear. The restricting members are provided to restrict a compressed amount of the shock absorbing member by making contact with each other. When bringing into contact with each other, the restricting members make contact at the outside diameter portions thereof. Accordingly, unpleasant noise generated during the operation of the starting apparatus is reduced by the shock absorbing member. Further, the damage to respective parts is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2004Date of Patent: February 14, 2006Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Tatsuya Saito, Masahiro Katoh
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Patent number: 6932042Abstract: A pinion gear of a starter is engaged with a ring gear of an internal combustion engine by restricting rotation of the pinion gear while driving a motor at a low speed. After the engagement is established, the motor is driven at a full speed by supplying a full current, thereby cranking up the engine. A crank bar for transferring movement of a plunger in a magnetic switch to a pinion-rotation-restricting member is divided into two or three portions. After the divided portions are assembled to the starter, they are connected together to form a solid piece. In this manner, a process of assembling the crank bar into the starter is simplified.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2003Date of Patent: August 23, 2005Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Mitsuhiro Murata, Masami Niimi, Tsutomu Shiga, Masanori Ohmi
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Patent number: 6923152Abstract: An engine starter includes a starter switch having a plunger assembly movable between non-operating operating positions. When the plunger assembly is at the non-operating position, a gap between main stationary and movable contacts is smaller than the sum of a gap between a pinion and an engine ring gear and the most-widely opened variable gap, which is defined between a drive mechanism and a moving shaft. The arrangement is such that, as the plunger assembly moves from the non-operating position to the operating position, the auxiliary contact is first closed to cause the starter motor to be driven at the first speed, and then the main contact is closed to cause the starter motor to be driven at the second speed.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2003Date of Patent: August 2, 2005Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toru Nagai, Hayato Yamauchi
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Patent number: 6895915Abstract: A method and apparatus for achieving reliability in starting V-Twin chain or belt-driven motorcycle engines using a conventional motorcycle battery and specially modified automotive cranking motor. The apparatus in its preferred embodiment utilizes a direct drive cranking motor configuration employing a cammed bearing clutch which is placed onto the engine's crankshaft along with a ring gear. The ring gear engages the geared shaft of the cranking motor directly, thereby bypassing the chain or belt-drive and thus effectively removing the main drive chain or belt from the cranking system. The gear ratio between the cranking motor and the ring gear may thus be selected to be optimum for the cranking motor so that the battery and cranking motor may be operated at near optimum power capabilities simultaneously.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2003Date of Patent: May 24, 2005Inventor: Lewis Hemphill
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Patent number: 6895175Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus, consistent with principles of the present invention, allow an unmodified device, for example, a dc starter motor, that normally operates at a first voltage to function in an electrical system providing a second voltage, which is different from the first voltage, and received from the power source. A device actuator, such as a solenoid, is controlled using the second voltage. The first voltage is produced and supplied to the device in response to a first action of the actuator, for example, upon solenoid depression. This voltage is then inhibited from being provided to the device in response to a second action of the actuator, for example, upon solenoid retraction after engine cranking.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2001Date of Patent: May 17, 2005Assignee: Cummins, Inc.Inventors: David A. Fulton, Ralph H. Johnston
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Patent number: 6863041Abstract: An engine starter that rotates at a rated speed after a ring gear meshs with a pinion slowly characterized by a wide variety of tolerance in manufacturing, and the inclusion of a magnet switch having an auxiliary contact being protected from an adverse effect of metal powder that could generate as a result of friction between contacts occurring during the closing and opening of the main contact.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2003Date of Patent: March 8, 2005Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toru Nagai, Hayato Yamauchi
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Patent number: 6851405Abstract: A starter includes a motor, an output shaft, a first spline connection member disposed between the motor and the output shaft, a pinion to be engaged with a ring gear of an engine, a second spline connection member disposed between the output shaft and the pinion, a pinion spring to apply its spring force to the pinion toward the ring gear, a lever, an electromagnetic switch to drive the output shaft toward the ring gear when the electromagnetic switch is excited and to operate the motor when the lever moves to a prescribed position, a drive spring to apply its spring force to the pinion when the electromagnetic switch drives the output shaft toward the ring gear. The first and second spline connection members rotate the pinion relative to the output shaft an angle more than a half of a pitch of the pinion when the helical connection member is driven by the electromagnetic switch toward the ring gear.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2004Date of Patent: February 8, 2005Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Sadayoshi Kajino, Youichi Hasegawa, Kazuaki Murase
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Patent number: 6848406Abstract: A starting motor is mounted to an approximately central portion of an engine body along the axis of a crankshaft. An over-running clutch is mounted to a first end portion of the crankshaft at a position where a starting clutch is sandwiched between the over-running clutch and the starting motor. A starting gear reducer having gears respectively fixed to both ends of a rotational shaft overlapping the starting clutch 39 is provided between the starting motor and the over-running clutch. A rotor of a generator is connected to the other end of the crankshaft.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2003Date of Patent: February 1, 2005Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hideo Ibukuro, Makoto Fujikubo
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Patent number: 6840203Abstract: Engine starting performance is enhanced by a brushless motor having no rotor position detecting sensor. In the first place an engine is rotated forward and then is reversely rotated to overcome a high load region of the engine. Then, the engine is accelerated and rotated forward and started. In a light load region of the engine, the engine is immediately accelerated and normally rotated. It is judged whether the region of the engine is the high load region or light load region based on the rotation speed when the starting operation is started. After the starting operation is started, if the forward rotation speed reaches a first speed, and a second speed which is higher than the first speed is obtained even after predetermined time is elapsed, an immediate starting-judging section 36 outputs a detection signal to a starting/normal rotation control section 37.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2003Date of Patent: January 11, 2005Assignee: Honda Giken Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tsutomu Wakitani, Toshinori Inagawa
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Patent number: 6837202Abstract: An engine starter includes two motors housed inside a housing, a driven gear wheel meshed between the pinions at the motor shafts of the motors, a first idle gear meshed with an internal gear at the driven gear wheel, a second idle gear coupled to the first idle gear for synchronous rotation, an output gear wheel meshed with the second idle gear, and an output shaft axially extended from the output gear wheel and selectively provided with a socket or starting bar for starting the engine of any of a variety of model vehicles.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2003Date of Patent: January 4, 2005Inventor: Ke-Way Lu
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Publication number: 20040261742Abstract: A starter mounting structure for a starter for cranking an engine (1) has a transmission case (2a) surrounding the transmission (2) and having an engine side end surface (200) facing an engine side. The engine block (1b) has a transmission side end surface (110, 120) facing a transmission side and partially overlapping the engine side end surface (200) of the transmission case (2a). An outer periphery (140) of the transmission side end surface (110, 120) of the engine block is partially equipped with a recess which extends on a crankshaft (5) side with respect to an inner periphery (240) of the engine side end surface (200) of the transmission case. An opening portion (13) is formed in correspondence with the recess. The starter mounting structure has a starter mounting member (9) closing the opening portion (13) and supporting the starter (8).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2004Publication date: December 30, 2004Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Shigehiro Matsumoto, Tatsuya Shiratori
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Patent number: 6834630Abstract: The invention relates to a starter system for an internal combustion engine, in particular in motor vehicles, having a starter motor, a reduction gear, and a pinion-engaging assembly. The primary components of the starter system (10) are embodied as individual modules and can be expanded in variable ways to make starter systems (10) with different parameters.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2002Date of Patent: December 28, 2004Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Karsten Mueller, Manfred Klaue, Orf Schneider, Stefan Ossenkopp, Siegbert Wessels, Harald Buehren
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Publication number: 20040250784Abstract: A starter includes a motor, an output shaft, a first spline connection member disposed between the motor and the output shaft, a pinion to be engaged with a ring gear of an engine, a second spline connection member disposed between the output shaft and the pinion, a pinion spring to apply its spring force to the pinion toward the ring gear, a lever, an electromagnetic switch to drive the output shaft toward the ring gear when the electromagnetic switch is excited and to operate the motor when the lever moves to a prescribed position, a drive spring to apply its spring force to the pinion when the electromagnetic switch drives the output shaft toward the ring gear. The first and second spline connection members rotate the pinion relative to the output shaft an angle more than a half of a pitch of the pinion when the helical connection member is driven by the electromagnetic switch toward the ring gear.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Sadayoshi Kajino, Youichi Hasegawa, Kazuaki Murase
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Publication number: 20040251072Abstract: An engine starter mechanism arrangement for snow vehicles, in which a starter mechanism is disposed so as to maintain excellent traveling stability of the snow vehicle. A crankshaft (7) extends through an engine (2) in a transverse direction of a body frame. A rear balancer shaft (62) is disposed in a rear part of the engine at a location rearward of the crankshaft in a manner extending substantially parallel to the crankshaft. A starter motor (65) is disposed in the engine at a location above the rear balancer shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Applicant: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Hideshi Morii, Toshio Hayashi, Hideto Nakamura
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Patent number: 6817328Abstract: A belt driven starter motor system used to start an internal combustion engine. The system comprises a starter motor having a rotor and a pulley, a crankshaft pulley, and a belt tensioner, which are connected by a belt. The belt tensioner has a pulley that is movable between a first position and a second position. The tensioner pulley in the first position applies tension to the belt and the pulley in the second position corresponds to a condition wherein there is generally no tension on the belt. The starter motor begins rotation prior to the initial rotation of the crankshaft pulley, whereby the starter motor partially uses rotational energy to rotate the crankshaft pulley, which results in starting the internal combustion engine.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2002Date of Patent: November 16, 2004Assignee: DaimlerChrysler CorporationInventors: Arthur J Buglione, Gerald Cilibraise
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Publication number: 20040168666Abstract: An engine starter that rotates at a rated speed after a ring gear meshs with a pinion slowly characterized by a wide variety of tolerance in manufacturing, and the inclusion of a magnet switch having an auxiliary contact being protected from an adverse effect of metal powder that could generate as a result of friction between contacts occurring during the closing and opening of the main contact.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2003Publication date: September 2, 2004Applicant: MITSUBISHI DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toru Nagai, Hayato Yamauchi
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Patent number: 6763735Abstract: A starter device for starting internal combustion engines having a starter motor (20) that comprises a stator (22) and a rotor (23) as well as a drive shaft (58) as starter components (21), further having a driven element (70) that can actively be connected to the drive shaft (58) and the internal combustion engine, and having a brake device (100) that acts on the driven element (70) is proposed. The starter device is characterized in that the brake device (100) can be actuated by means of at least one starter component (21) by switching on the starter motor (20).Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2002Date of Patent: July 20, 2004Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Hans-Dieter Siems, Ngoc-Thach Nguyen, Sven Hartmann, Hans Braun
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Patent number: 6758181Abstract: A starter which is capable of smoothly and reliably starting an internal combustion engine even though an electric motor employed is relatively small in size and output, thereby making it possible to minimize power consumption of the electric motor, to miniaturize the capacity of battery, to reduce the total weight of the starter, to enhance the durability of the starter, and to suppress the generation of failure of the starter. This starter comprises a buffering/power-accumulating means disposed midway along a power transmission system between a driving member and a driven member, wherein the buffering/power-accumulating means is enabled, during the driving process, to accumulate the power supplied through the driving process while alleviating any impact to the driven member, the accumulated power being subsequently employed to drive the driven member, and wherein the driving member is an electric motor.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2002Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: Kioritz CorporationInventors: Giichi Iida, Junichi Akaike
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Publication number: 20040112319Abstract: A starter for an internal combustion engine produces less noise and has a longer life and includes a transmission element for actuating an electric motor. The transmission element has two independently coaxially seated components—a stop pin and an engaging bar. The engaging bar is positioned between a pinion of the motor and the stop pin. The stop pin is seated in an internal shoulder in a cavity of the armature shaft of the electric motor and through the shoulder of a fixed core. A narrow portion of the stop pin is seated in an engaging spring positioned in the cavity of a mobile core of a disengaging electromagnet. The stop pin bears with a second front surface against a washer secured in the mobile core, where the length of the mobile core cavity is greater than the length of the narrow part of the stop pin by a predetermined distance c.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2003Publication date: June 17, 2004Inventor: Miloslav Hnilica
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Publication number: 20040107932Abstract: A pinion gear of a starter is engaged with a ring gear of an internal combustion engine by restricting rotation of the pinion gear while driving a motor at a low speed. After the engagement is established, the motor is driven at a full speed by supplying a full current, thereby cranking up the engine. A crank bar for transferring movement of a plunger in a magnetic switch to a pinion-rotation-restricting member is divided into two or three portions. After the divided portions are assembled to the starter, they are connected together to form a solid piece. In this manner, a process of assembling the crank bar into the starter is simplified.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2003Publication date: June 10, 2004Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Mitsuhiro Murata, Masami Niimi, Tsutomu Shiga, Masanori Ohmi
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Publication number: 20040107931Abstract: An engine starter includes a starter switch having a plunger assembly movable between non-operating operating positions. When the plunger assembly is at the non-operating position, a gap between main stationary and movable contacts is smaller than the sum of a gap between a pinion and an engine ring gear and the most-widely opened variable gap, which is defined between a drive mechanism and a moving shaft. The arrangement is such that, as the plunger assembly moves from the non-operating position to the operating position, the auxiliary contact is first closed to cause the starter motor to be driven at the first speed, and then the main contact is closed to cause the starter motor to be driven at the second speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2003Publication date: June 10, 2004Applicant: MITSUBISHI DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toru Nagai, Hayato Yamauchi
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Patent number: 6732694Abstract: The invention relates to a starting device (2), for a twin cylinder internal combustion engine (1) with cylinders (4, 5) in a V-format, comprising an electrical starter motor (19) and a gear assembly (20), coupled thereto for transmission of the output torque from the starter motor (19) to a crankshaft (14) in the motor (1) and an overrunning clutch (21) arranged between the gear assembly (20) and the crankshaft (14), such that the starter motor (19) and the gear assembly (20) are arranged in the V-shaped space (3) between the cylinders (4, 5) and above the crankshaft (14).Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2002Date of Patent: May 11, 2004Assignee: KTM Sportmotorcycle AGInventor: Claus Holweg
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Patent number: 6718926Abstract: An inside space of a starter motor having a motor, a magnetic switch and a reduction gear train is ventilated through a ventilation passage formed in the starter motor. The ventilation passage includes a labyrinth passage formed at a portion connecting a front housing containing the reduction gear and a center housing containing the motor and the magnetic switch. The labyrinth passage connecting a motor chamber and a switch chamber prevents brush dusts generated in the motor chamber from being scattered in the other spaces. Grease splash from the gear train does not enter into the ventilation passage separated the gear train. Thus, the ventilation passage well functions for a long time without being clogged with the grease, brush dusts or the mixture thereof.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2001Date of Patent: April 13, 2004Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Yoshikazu Yokochi, Masayuki Tomura
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Publication number: 20040065287Abstract: A starting motor is mounted to an approximately central portion of an engine body along the axis of a crankshaft. An over-running clutch is mounted to a first end portion of the crankshaft at a position where a starting clutch is sandwiched between the over-running clutch and the starting motor. A starting gear reducer having gears respectively fixed to both ends of a rotational shaft overlapping the starting clutch 39 is provided between the starting motor and the over-running clutch. A rotor of a generator is connected to the other end of the crankshaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2003Publication date: April 8, 2004Inventors: Hideo Ibukuro, Makoto Fujikubo
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Publication number: 20040045519Abstract: A belt driven starter motor system used to start an internal combustion engine. The system comprises a starter motor having a rotor and a pulley, a crankshaft pulley, and a belt tensioner, which are connected by a belt. The belt tensioner has a pulley that is movable between a first position and a second position. The tensioner pulley in the first position applies tension to the belt and the pulley in the second position corresponds to a condition wherein there is generally no tension on the belt. The starter motor begins rotation prior to the initial rotation of the crankshaft pulley, whereby the starter motor partially uses rotational energy to rotate the crankshaft pulley, which results in starting the internal combustion engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2002Publication date: March 11, 2004Inventors: Arthur J. Buglione, Gerald Cilibraise
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Publication number: 20040041402Abstract: The aim of the invention is to create a simple and especially axially compact way of assembling a drive device comprising an internal combustion engine (1), a starter-generator (2), and an automatic gearbox (3, 4) situated on the output end and having an upstream torque converter (3) which is connected to the crankshaft (1.1) of the internal combustion engine (1) by means of a flexible disc (5). To this end, the starter-generator (2) is arranged on the axial side of the torque converter (3), opposite the internal combustion engine (1).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2003Publication date: March 4, 2004Inventor: Uwe Dehrmann
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Patent number: 6694938Abstract: A heat engine has a starting system comprising two starters so arranged that their pinions engage the starter crown of the engine in parallel once the ignition key is turned. Each starter comprises an electric motor and a power interrupter connected in the power circuit of the motor and controlled by energizing a coil. The closing of the interrupter of one of the starters is delayed with respect to the other one. Reopening of one of the interrupters due to the voltage drop caused by closing the interrupter of the other starter is avoided by appropriate selection of the time delay.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2002Date of Patent: February 24, 2004Assignee: Valeo Equipements Electriques MoteurInventor: Gérard Vilou
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Patent number: 6688270Abstract: A method and an apparatus for preventing overrun of an engine starter with high reliability by detecting accurately a state in which an engine operation has been started on the basis of a starter supply voltage to thereby protect the engine starter from excessive load and burnout while sparing extra interconnection or wiring for the starter.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2001Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Motoi Hisamoto, Katsuyuki Sumimoto
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Patent number: 6681736Abstract: A starter protective device is provided which is capable of accurately determining the commencement of overrunning (i.e., timing of the commencement of starting of an engine) even in the presence of variations in the cycle of fluctuations in a battery voltage, noise and so on, thereby to prevent a starter from being overrun after starting of an engine in a reliable manner. The starter protective device includes an overrunning determination section 15 for determining when the starter motor 4 commences overrunning; and a starter motor cut-off section for interrupting the main contactor 3 when it is determined that the starter motor 4 commences overrunning. The overrunning determination section 15 detects a change over time of the battery voltage BV after the starter switch 2 has been turned on, and determines that the starter motor 4 commences overrunning when the battery voltage VB remains unchanged without any increase or decrease over a predetermined time T.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2001Date of Patent: January 27, 2004Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Katsuyuki Sumimoto, Keiichi Komurasaki
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Patent number: 6679213Abstract: An improved DC electrical starting motor and method for starting internal combustion engines that reduces starter motor noise in the period after the engine starts by effecting breaking of the starter motor shaft at that time. Preferably the braking is accomplished by regenerative braking.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2002Date of Patent: January 20, 2004Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha MoricInventor: Yoshikazu Kurita
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Publication number: 20030140879Abstract: A heat engine has a starting system comprising two starters so arranged that their pinions engage the starter crown of the engine in parallel once the ignition key is turned. Each starter comprises an electric motor and a power interrupter connected in the power circuit of the motor and controlled by energising a coil. The closing of the interrupter of one of the starters is delayed with respect to the other one. Reopening of one of the interrupters due to the voltage drop caused by closing the interrupter of the other starter is avoided by appropriate selection of the time delay.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2002Publication date: July 31, 2003Applicant: VALEO EQUIPEMENTS ELECTRIQUES MOTEURInventor: Gerard Vilou
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Publication number: 20030079706Abstract: A model engine axle-end start converter has a replacement start shaft (1) and adaptor plate (2) to replace an O.S.® pull-start shaft (6) on a conversional model engine (7) that includes the O.S.® model engine and to position an external converter one-way clutch (8) that includes a Traxxas® one-way clutch on an axle portion 10 of the replacement start shaft. It is made available in a converter package a (4) for handling and for merchandising. The converter package contains assembly instructions (5) for replacing the pull starter (14) of the O.S.® model engine with the EZ electric starter (9) for use on model race cars that include the Traxxas® model truck (13).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2001Publication date: May 1, 2003Inventor: Brian G. Muehlbauer
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Publication number: 20030047156Abstract: The invention relates to a starting device (2), for a twin cylinder internal combustion engine (1) with cylinders (4, 5) in a V-format, comprising an electrical starter motor (19) and a toothed gear drive (20), coupled thereto for transmission of the output torque from the starter motor (19) to a crankshaft (14) in the motor (1) and a sprag clutch (21) arranged between the drive (20) and the crankshaft (14), such that the starter motor (19) and the drive (20) are arranged in the V-shaped space (3) between the cylinders (4, 5) and above the crankshaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2002Publication date: March 13, 2003Inventor: Claus Holweg
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Publication number: 20020152980Abstract: The invention concerns a system and a method for starting and/or positioning an internal combustion engine ICE, whereby an electric machine S/G is provided that is connected by way of a spring-and-damper assembly S/D to the internal combustion engine having a total start-up torque T1.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2001Publication date: October 24, 2002Inventors: Peter Ahner, Manfred Ackerman
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Publication number: 20020066430Abstract: A starter for an internal combustion engine includes a planetary gear speed reduction mechanism, a pinion and a pinion drive shaft, a motor, a front housing having a plurality of fastening holes disposed at a circumference and a center casing having approximately the same outside diameter as the motor housing. The center housing is disposed between the motor housing and the front housing to align a motor shaft, the planetary gear speed reduction mechanism and the pinion drive shaft. The diameter of the motor housing is a maximum outside diameter of the fastening bolt less than the diameter of a circumference on which the fastening bolts are formed. Therefore, fastening bolts can be easily inserted into the fastening holes.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2001Publication date: June 6, 2002Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Sadayoshi Kajino, Youichi Hasegawa, Yasuo Osawa
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Patent number: 6397808Abstract: An engine starter for preventing undesirable noises is disclosed, which is applicable to a vehicle employing an idle stop system. The starter comprises a starter motor; a traction-drive type reduction gear connected to the starter motor and positioned between the starter motor and a driven shaft of the engine; and a torque transmitting device via which the reduction gear and the driven shaft are linked.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2000Date of Patent: June 4, 2002Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masashi Tanaka, Takashi Aoki, Mikihiro Takano
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Patent number: 6396388Abstract: A remote starting device intended chiefly for use in cars that utilizes a pulse signal that is generated by either an RF transmitter, a keypad, or a telephone. The pulse signal is transmitted to a rotating drive attached to the subject ignition. When the device receives the pulse signal, the rotating drive rotates to activate the ignition of the car, thereby starting the engine. The remote starting device operates independently of the car's circuitry using only the car's battery, via the cigarette lighter, as a power source. There is no need to modify the car's electrical system to install the device. This greatly simplifies installation of the device and does not jeopardize any applicable warranty on the car.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 1999Date of Patent: May 28, 2002Inventor: Dawei Dong
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Patent number: 6378479Abstract: In a starter, durability of a pinion and a ring gear is to be improved by eliminating such as a collision by bringing them in mesh with each other. A rotatable intermediate shaft (for example, an input shaft of a generator) is interposed between an output shaft of a starter motor and a crankshaft, a ring gear is mounted on this intermediate shaft via a bearing, the ring gear and a pinion are normally brought in mesh with each other. A movable clutch element for coupling and releasing of the coupling between the intermediate shaft and the ring gear is fitted by a spline to the intermediate shaft, and a stationary clutch element is provided on the ring gear. When a starting switch 1 is turned ON, the clutch element is moved on a side of the ring gear by means of a lever and when the starting switch is turned OFF, the clutch element is separated from the ring gear. The intermediate shaft and the crankshaft are coupled with each other via pulleys and a belt.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2000Date of Patent: April 30, 2002Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Keisuke Nishidate, Koki Ueta, Shigeru Yumiyama
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Publication number: 20020046722Abstract: An inside space of a starter motor having a motor, a magnetic switch and a reduction gear train is ventilated through a ventilation passage formed in the starter motor. The ventilation passage includes a labyrinth passage formed at a portion connecting a front housing containing the reduction gear and a center housing containing the motor and the magnetic switch. The labyrinth passage connecting a motor chamber and a switch chamber prevents brush dusts generated in the motor chamber from being scattered in the other spaces. Grease splash from the gear train does not enter into the ventilation passage separated the gear train. Thus, the ventilation passage well functions for a long time without being clogged with the grease, brush dusts or the mixture thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2001Publication date: April 25, 2002Inventors: Yoshikazu Yokochi, Masayuki Tomura
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Patent number: 6374791Abstract: An engine starting device includes a self-starting motor drivable to rotate the crankshaft of an engines, and a one-way clutch operable to permit transmission of rotary motion of the self-starting motor in one direction only to the crankshaft. The one-way clutch includes an inner race operatively connected to an output shaft of the self-starting motor, an outer race operatively connected to the crankshaft, a plurality of ratchet pawls pivotally connected to the inner race and urged by springs against the inner race. The one-way clutch is designed such that, when the speed of rotation of the inner race while being rotated by the self-starting motor goes up to a predetermined value, the ratchet pawls are caused to swing in a radial outward direction under the action of centrifugal force against the bias of the springs and become engaged by the outer race to thereby engage the one-way clutch.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2000Date of Patent: April 23, 2002Assignees: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Starting Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shigeaki Kuwabara, Kazumi Miyashita, Keizo Shimizu, Taro Kihara
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Patent number: 6360707Abstract: An engagement relay for starters of internal combustion engines as proposed, with which a starter pinion is first shifted into the gear ring of the engine and then the starter motor is turned on. For gently rotating the starter pinion into the gear ring by means of the starter motor, it is proposed that the switch of the engagement relay be embodied as a switchover contact 54, which in the position of repose switches the starter motor via a resistor 39 and in the working position switches it directly to the electrical supply (plus 30), and then the resistor (3) is turned off.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 1999Date of Patent: March 26, 2002Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Karlheinz Boegner
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Patent number: 6336435Abstract: An outboard motor includes an engine disposed above an engine holder in a mounted usable state of the outboard motor, and the engine comprises a crankcase in which a crankshaft extends vertically perpendicularly, a cylinder block disposed rear side of the crankcase, and a cylinder head disposed rear side of the cylinder block. A starter motor mounted to a front surface of the crank case and an oil filter is further mounted to the crank case at a portion below the starter motor.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2000Date of Patent: January 8, 2002Assignee: Suzuki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yukihiro Yoshikawa, Takeshi Toyama, Kazuo Mineno
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Patent number: 6305337Abstract: In an overhead cam shaft engine with a starter motor, the starter motor is to be mounted to a front face of a crank case at a position close to a cylinder, thereby creating a space on the front face of the crank case, while preventing interference between a gear train for the transfer of rotation of the starter motor and a cam shaft driving mechanism. An overhead cam shaft type engine includes a starter motor, having a cam shaft driving mechanism disposed on one end side of a crank shaft and a gear train for the transfer of rotation of a starter motor. The gear train is disposed on an opposite side of the crank shaft. The axis of a gear shaft of at least one gear of plural gears which constitute the gear train is positioned above a crank case dividing plane. Furthermore, the starter motor is mounted to a front face of a lower crank case at an upper position close to a cylinder, and an oil filter is mounted in a space thus created below the starter motor on the front face of the lower crank case.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2000Date of Patent: October 23, 2001Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiromi Sumi, Atsushi Sawa