Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Mitsuba Corporation

Seiji Shimada

Tomohiko Ikemori

Shigehiro Kanbe

Masataka Odagiri

Hiroshi Ooka

Masaaki Oya

Yusuke Fukada

Hiroki Yamada

Masahiro Nakamura

Satoshi Sekiguchi

Mitsuhiro Kogure

Takayuki Yamagata

Formed in a pinion () are pinion-side helical external teeth (A) that mesh with a ring gear), and pinion-side helical internal teeth () that mesh with a pinion inner (). Formed in the pinion inner () are pinion inner-side helical external teeth () that mesh with the pinion-side helical internal teeth (). The configuration is formed so that when the rotational speed of the pinion () is slower than that of the ring gear (), a thrust load is generated in a direction toward the ring gear (), and when the rotational speed of the pinion () is faster than that of the ring gear (), a thrust load is generated in a direction away from the ring gear ().

Starter

A starter includes an output shaft which rotates by a rotary force applied from the motor unit, a housing in which an end of the output shaft is rotatably supported, and an electromagnetic device configured to apply/shut off current to the motor unit, and biases a suppressing force toward the ring gear to the pinion gear through a clutch mechanism, wherein a load receiving member which abuts one end of the output shaft to receive an axial load generated from the output shaft is installed in the housing.

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Utsunomiya, Japan

Seiji Shimada