Starting system for internal combustion engine

Patent · Tue Jun 24 04:00:00 EDT 1986

OSTI ID:5536255

Hamano, I; Morishita, A; Akae, Y; Tanaka, T; Yabunaka, K

A startling systems for an internal combustion engine is described which consists of: a prime mover having a rotary drive shaft, the shaft having a first end and a second end opposite the first end; a pinion mounted on the first end of the shaft so as to be reciprocally axially movable thereon between a first axial position and a second axial position, the pinion having means for meshingly engaging a ring gear of the engine for rotatively driving the ring gear only when in the first position and the shaft is rotated in a first rotational direction, and for disengaging from the ring gear by movement of the pinion from the first position toward the second position; and a one-way clutch mounted to the second end of the shaft, having means for engaging a load device for rotatively driving the load device only when the shaft is rotated in a second rotational direction opposite the first rotational direction; the prime mover including a D.C. motor, the motor comprising a commutator, brushes in sliding contact with the commutator and means for applying a supply voltage to the brushes, the applying means comprising means for reversing the rotational direction of the shaft, the reversing means including means for changing the polarity of the supply voltage; the brushes including at least two first brushes and at least two second brushes, the first brushes being axially aligned with the second brushes with respect to the shaft, the means for changing the polarity of the supply voltage including means for alternatively applying the voltage to the first brushes or to the second brushes, with opposite polarities to respective aligned ones of the first brushes and second brushes.

• Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo
• Patent Number(s): US 4596159
• OSTI ID: 5536255
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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