Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Starting Industrial Co., Ltd.

Yutaro Kinoshita

Mitsuhiro Ito

Yoshinori Horikoshi

Tomoyasu Mizuno

In a recoil starter that starts an engine, the recoil starter rotating a drive shaft of the engine using rotation force of a reel through a recoil rope wound around the reel, by the recoil rope being pulled, a ratchet claw is provided on the reel, the ratchet claw pivoting in a radial direction of the reel with rotation of the reel by the recoil rope and then engaging with a pulley provided on the drive shaft, a guide member is provided around a reel shaft, the guide member covering the ratchet claw, the reel shaft being a rotation shaft of the reel, and a rib is provided on the guide member, the rib abutting on the ratchet claw.

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Wako, Japan

Yutaro Kinoshita