Machine element or mechanism – Engine starters – Automatic
Patent
1990-01-18
1991-10-08
Braun, Leslie A.
Machine element or mechanism
Engine starters
Automatic
74 7A, 74 7E, 277152, 384147, 384484, F02N 1506, F16C 3300, F02F 500
Patent
active
050543296
ABSTRACT:
A starter motor which is improved in waterproof performance. The starter motor comprises an output rotary shaft, a stationary frame, a ball bearing secured to the frame, and a clutch pinion moving member mounted in a coaxial relationship to the rotary shaft between an outer periphery of the rotary shaft and the ball bearing for sliding movement over a predetermined distance in an axial direction thereof. The clutch pinion moving member has a pinion at a front end thereof, and an oil seal is mounted at a location on the frame forwardly of the ball bearing and extending toward the clutch pinion moving member to seal a location between the frame and the clutch pinion moving member. The oil seal has a radial section of an L-shape having an axial side and a radial side extending from a front end of the axial side. It may have a plurality of axially extending drain slots or drain holes formed in a circumferentially spaced relationship on an inner periphery of the axial side thereof. Various other forms of starter motors are also disclosed.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2761710 (1956-09-01), Rudner
patent: 4808836 (1989-02-01), Isozumi et al.
patent: 4895035 (1990-01-01), Okamoto et al.
Isozumi Shuzoo
Morishita Akira
Tanaka Takao
Braun Leslie A.
Laub David W.
Mitsubishi Denki & Kabushiki Kaisha
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