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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2024
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
An alternator includes a body portion, a rotating shaft, a pulley, a belt, and a retaining member fixed to the body portion and reducing or eliminating the possibility of the pulley coming off the rotating shaft, wherein the retaining member is located away from the rotating shaft and the pulley in an axial direction of the rotating shaft and opposed to the rotating shaft and the pulley, and a width of the belt in the axial direction is smaller than a width of the pulley in the axial direction, and a distance of the retaining member and the belt in the axial direction is equal to or greater than a width of the pulley in the axial direction, and a distance of the retaining member and the rotating shaft in the axial direction is smaller than a width of the pulley in the axial direction.